(using Photoshop 6)
PNG 24bit (no loss) = 13.9k
PNG 8bit, 256 colors = 7.8k
PNG 8bit, 64 colors = 5.6k
JPG at 100 quality = 8.5k
JPG at 80 quality = 4.8k

They all look good enough too, there's no reason to use BMP ever (and just because most people have broadband now doesn't mean this shouldn't matter anymore, bandwidth still counts)

Posted by Koitenshin +∞

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I think 100x100 is too small. Especially when there's text involved. I really wanted to use this avatar too....pity.

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It was going to be 60x60 and 20k until Xkeeper convinced me to set it higher, it was also 60x__ on the old one until Xkeeper changed it, so thank him for even having 100x100

Posted by HyperHacker

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Also, Firefox for some reason reports this image is 0KB, and views it as plain text. I suspect the server isn't sending a content-type header or something.

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This could probably be fixed without using file extensions, they're just stored that way to make it simpler to get the file (only needing the user id) ... all that's stored in the database is a "usepic" field (0 or 1), changing that to the file type could fix it ...

And remember there's the 60x60 one for the memberlist as well, automatically resized (and saved as PNG) from whatever you upload

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Animated GIF's lose their animation when resized (not much I can do about it), and transparency is lost, but it's saved as a separate 60x60 image for a few reasons

- Doesn't need to be resized everytime, only when changed
- Looks better since it's antialiased
- No horizontal/vertical stretch if it's not square (but a black border instead)
- Smaller filesize (at least when it's originally bigger or animated)

I didn't keep it at 100x100 since that stretched it up too much, and it looked too empty without the images like Xkeeper did before


For the 100x100 image, animated GIF's work because they're saved as is, at least if they're not over the size limit ...

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