Re: [NetEpic ML] Re: Army cards: graphics help

From: Peter Ramos <primarch_at_...>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:50:01 -0500

Hi!

I seem to have found a way around the jpeg problem. Campaign
cartographer originally did not have a way to save in jpeg format. With
later patches they gave it the ability to do so, but there is no way to
access any options to change compression, which may be too high. Since
it does let me save in PNG format with no problem, what I do is take
that clean PNG and open it in photoshop and then switch to jpeg at a
very low compression. It kept virtually the same clean PNG image of the
original. Its larger than your standard Jpeg, but still smaller than PDF
and it zips at about the same size. My example was one of the more
elaborate cards, perhaps the largest in space. Support cards run about
70-80k, company cards from 150-250k, after zipping even the largest
shrinks to about 160k.

Overall it looks good, so expect them in Jpeg format. They can be easily
be brought up by MS paint.

Peter

jeremygurney_at_... wrote:

> --- In netepic_at_egroups.com, Peter Ramos <primarch_at_b...> wrote:
>
>> My question to all those computer gurus out there, is there a way
>
> around
>
>> this problem? Is there a format I can save them in that is small and
>
> has
>
>> no "graniness"? Up to now I have used MS paint (bleh!) and adobe
>> photoshop. Any tips?
>
>
> Peter,
>
> I mess with this kind of stuff for a living, here are a few tips.
>
> Jpeg's give pretty good compression, and fairly good image quality
> too. If the image is grainy then :-
> a) Make sure that the image you're creating in photoshop is as close
> to the size that it will be used on the card, otherwise Word, or
> whatever you're using to make the card, will then have to re-size the
> image before use ... and word is not very good at this.
> b) If this still doesn't give you an acceptable picture then check the
> image settings your using in photoshop, you can do all sorts of things
> like change the compression settings when creating a jpeg, you might
> have the compression cranked up too high (which gives a small file at
> the expense of quality).
>
> Png (portable network graphics) is another format you might try using.
> It has fairly good compression but gives slightly larger files than
> Jpegs. You shold be able to create these with any recent version of
> photoshop.
>
> Bmps will work but as you know - they're huge.
>
> I'd use them in that order of preference (jpeg,png,bmp), the key is
> often exporting the image in the right size for use. But as the others
> have also asked, can we have them as PDFs as well as DOCs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jez (computer guru/geek)
>
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