[Gimp-user] Thumbnail Images are Larger then Originals

2010-01-06 Thread photocomix
>> I need to read up on the GIMP documentation regarding PNG quality >> settings. Mine are apparently too high. you may always use maximum compression doesn't change quality on RGB images usually png have a quite bigger file size then jpg, but if indexed file size should be not bigger of a corre

Re: [Gimp-user] Thumbnail Images are Larger then Originals

2010-01-06 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:42:12 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: > I did, after the first time I converted them. I reconverted back to RGB, > then back to Indexed with no dithering. Converting a dithered indexed image to RGB doesn't remove dithering. You have to convert the original RGB image to

Re: [Gimp-user] Thumbnail Images are Larger then Originals

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 21:42:12 Programmer In Training wrote: > I need to read up > on the GIMP documentation regarding PNG quality settings. Mine are > apparently too high. Hello, png is lossless, so what you set is the compression factor, which doesn't affect the quality/size ratio but s

Re: [Gimp-user] Thumbnail Images are Larger then Originals

2010-01-06 Thread Sven Neumann
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 14:42 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: > I need to read up on the GIMP documentation regarding PNG quality > settings. Mine are apparently too high. PNG is a lossless image format, it doesn't have any quality settings. The only thing you can adjust is the compression fact

Re: [Gimp-user] Thumbnail Images are Larger then Originals

2010-01-06 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/6/2010 2:34 PM, Jernej Simončič wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:25:26 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestions, but after converting to indexed and reducing >> to 256 colors, some of the original sized images were BIGGER > > I forgot to mention, you have to select

Re: [Gimp-user] Thumbnail Images are Larger then Originals

2010-01-06 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:25:26 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions, but after converting to indexed and reducing > to 256 colors, some of the original sized images were BIGGER I forgot to mention, you have to select "No dithering" (since these are screenshots, ditherin

Re: [Gimp-user] Thumbnail Images are Larger then Originals

2010-01-06 Thread Patrick Horgan
Programmer In Training wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions, but after converting to indexed and reducing > to 256 colors, some of the original sized images were BIGGER in file > size so I just wound up cropping out what I really didn't need for the > article I'm writing (if anyone is interested in

Re: [Gimp-user] Thumbnail Images are Larger then Originals

2010-01-06 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/6/2010 12:01 PM, Jernej Simončič wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:41:13 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: > >> Why are the thumbnails larger in file size then most of the originals >> (at full size)?! This is unacceptable. I'd rather not use jpg if it can >> at all be avoided. I used the sa

Re: [Gimp-user] Thumbnail Images are Larger then Originals

2010-01-06 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:41:13 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: > Why are the thumbnails larger in file size then most of the originals > (at full size)?! This is unacceptable. I'd rather not use jpg if it can > at all be avoided. I used the same exact settings for saving as a png > that I used

[Gimp-user] Thumbnail Images are Larger then Originals

2010-01-06 Thread Programmer In Training
I'm currently writing a blog article on security online and I've created some screen-shots, which I then scaled down (to 400 on the smallest side, any smaller and it becomes completely useless to me) and used "save as" to make a thumbnail copy while keeping the original[0-1]. Why are the thumbnail