FYI: New signature rules

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by Fish

Is there a easy way to minimize a pic?

What exactly do you mean?

Resize or compress?

You can use a free image suite (i.e Infran view or GIMP) to resize your image. You can do this by setting your own pixel dimensions or by manually dragging corners. Sometimes, cropping maybe your best choice as if you just resize you may experience some distortion/warping of the original.

To compress your JPG, you can use the same programs and when choosing 'save as jpg' set your compression percentage before saving. Usually 70-80% will still keep the image sharp and without pixelation.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by danlisa

What exactly do you mean?

Resize or compress?

You can use a free image suite (i.e Infran view or GIMP) to resize your image. You can do this by setting your own pixel dimensions or by manually dragging corners. Sometimes, cropping maybe your best choice as if you just resize you may experience some distortion/warping of the original.

To compress your JPG, you can use the same programs and when choosing 'save as jpg' set your compression percentage before saving. Usually 70-80% will still keep the image sharp and without pixelation.

Thanks mate.

[Takeda Shingen]

I have removed the off topic items in this discussion. Make your own threads in which to cry like small children.

[Onkel Neal]

Guys, we have to set some baselines for sig sizes, otherwise they get bigger and bigger.... kind of like my Mastercard bill.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Neal

[elite_hunter_sh3]

yes but 100kb is rediculous... if its gonna be that low... might as well ban all images/animated gifs in signatures and only allow text......

Originally Posted by elite_hunter_sh3

yes but 100kb is rediculous... if its gonna be that low... might as well ban all images/animated gifs in signatures and only allow text......

But what about dial-up users?

[elite_hunter_sh3]

ok dailup is 56kb/s ... 2.2mb is 2200ish kb... divide by 56... u get around 40.22 or so seconds..... and the rest of the page is a megabyte or 2 more....another 2min or so...
so the sig pictures are reduced to a ridculously small size of 100kb.. jus for 40 seconds... while the overall page while take a good min or 2 to load....

if they are gonna reduce sigs to be that small... then just ban them overall....

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by elite_hunter_sh3

yes but 100kb is rediculous... if its gonna be that low... might as well ban all images/animated gifs in signatures and only allow text......

If you want, I can do that for you, as a special case?

[elite_hunter_sh3]

no no.. its ok you dont have to... ill wait.