Urgent: Image help required

[stormbind]

European Cup, England desperately need support

My avatar is over the 4Kb limit...

Can someone kindly save it with Photoshop to correct that? It's 256 colours so shouldn't need more than an open/save I think. Dunno.

 

[Ankka]

I think this is under the limit. Used Irfanview, so don't know if the quality is that good...

 

[stormbind]

Thanks for trying Ankka

JPG isn't very good at small graphics because of the way it compresses. I'm hoping someone will post a PNG. I'll use your one for now though

 

[damunzy]

Here is a jpeg with a bit better quality. I put it as close to 4KB, without going over, as I could. I don't think you will be able to get a PNG under 4JB unless you clip the size of the graphic.

 

[stormbind]

Thankyou both

I am now using the 2nd.

PNG can do it. A lot of editors use PNG32 mode which is not ideal. PNG8 will reduce the size by a factor of x2 or x3, and as the one I posted only has 256-colours anyway, it won't look any different.

 

[Ankka]

I see no difference in all of those images in quality...

 

[Dell19]

He said a bit better quality... Why isn't this in the normal avatar thread?

 

[stormbind]

I see no difference in all of those images in quality...

It is very faint, but if you look at the lightened area (gray shades) you can see tiny artifacts in both images. In the second one, I found them most notable in the top part of the image.

This is way JPG compression works: It chops the image into uniform squares, each one with variable-fill. With uncompressed JPG, each pixel is a square, with highly compressed JPG the squares are huge and cover many pixels.

JPG/PNG/GIF all work differently so they all have different results. JPG is best for high-colour photos. GIF is good for low-colour diagrams. The value of PNG is entirely dependent on the editor being used.

I am quick to notice artifact, and I score 120% in colour perception. I'm a freak

 

[damunzy]

I see no difference in all of those images in quality...

If you zoom the pictures 200% you'll see a noticable difference.

Yeah, why isn't this in the Avatar thread!