Re: [Gimp-user] PNG files and IE6

2010-05-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Frank Gore g...@friendlyphotozone.com: There's more to it than just the PNG format, and this isn't really a Gimp thing: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/ Many thanks to all respondents. It turns out there are two kinds of transparency; binary alpha channel. IE6 can handle binary

Re: [Gimp-user] PNG files and IE6

2010-05-27 Thread Tom Williams
On 05/27/2010 12:51 PM, Sebastian Tennant wrote: Quoth Frank Gore g...@friendlyphotozone.com: There's more to it than just the PNG format, and this isn't really a Gimp thing: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/ Many thanks to all respondents. It turns out there are two kinds

Re: [Gimp-user] PNG files and IE6

2010-05-27 Thread Tom Williams
On 05/27/2010 01:47 PM, Stefan Maerz wrote: On 5/27/2010 3:38 PM, Tom Williams wrote: Can't doing this result in some loss of image quality? Sometimes I'll make PNGs with a drop shadow and transparency and when I convert the image to indexed mode, the drop shadow quality suffers. Peace...

Re: [Gimp-user] PNG files and IE6

2010-05-27 Thread Tom Williams
On 05/27/2010 02:00 PM, niski wrote: W dniu 2010-05-27 22:38, Tom Williams pisze: On 05/27/2010 12:51 PM, Sebastian Tennant wrote: Quoth Frank Goreg...@friendlyphotozone.com: There's more to it than just the PNG format, and this isn't really a Gimp thing:

Re: [Gimp-user] PNG files and IE6

2010-05-27 Thread Tom Williams
On 05/27/2010 03:03 PM, Branko Vukelic wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Tom Williams tomd...@comcast.net wrote: Can't doing this result in some loss of image quality? Sometimes I'll make PNGs with a drop shadow and transparency and when I convert the image to indexed mode, the

Re: [Gimp-user] PNG files and IE6

2010-05-27 Thread Tom Williams
On 05/27/2010 02:56 PM, Frank Gore wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Tom Williams tomd...@comcast.net wrote: Can't doing this result in some loss of image quality? Sometimes I'll make PNGs with a drop shadow and transparency and when I convert the image to indexed mode, the drop

Re: [Gimp-user] PNG files and IE6

2010-05-27 Thread Branko Vukelic
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Tom Williams tomd...@comcast.net wrote: Thanks for the info!  :) Tom, there's no need to spam the list with thanks (as far as I'm concerned), and quote whole messages just to say Thanks. ;) -- Branko Vukelić bg.bra...@gmail.com stu...@brankovukelic.com

Re: [Gimp-user] PNG file gamma again. Bug in png save?

2009-10-30 Thread Sven Neumann
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 12:14 +0200, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: GIMP saves the file gamma 0.4545 even if I uncheck its saving in PNG save dialog. Both checked and unchecked will save the gamma 0.4545. xloadimage shows both saves equally dark, with wrong intensities. Version: GNU Image

Re: [Gimp-user] PNG vs JPG

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: arnuld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why JPG is so lightweight as compared to PNG ? (even when image doe snot have any transparency) Because JPEG has been designed to be this way. It does achieve higher compression at the cost of quality loss. The features of both file formats are explained in

Re: [Gimp-user] png file displayed differently on web and other software

2007-06-05 Thread Sven Neumann
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76096 ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] PNG option: save color from transparency

2006-09-25 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Monday 25 September 2006 02:32 pm, devvv wrote: [Gimp-user] PNG option: save color from transparency Date: Today 02:32:49 pm From: devvv [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Message was signed with unknown key 0x8C3D7645EB4E4851. The validity of the signature cannot

Re: [Gimp-user] png and layers

2006-07-01 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:33:23 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Subject: [Gimp-user] png and layers Hello all, I like to save layer information of a manually created logo. Unfortunately GIMP tells me that

RE: [Gimp-user] png compression

2005-04-14 Thread Kalle Ounapuu
There's lots of things you can do to make PNG's smaller. If you save them as Indexed PNG's and reduce the colours, you may end up with smaller filesizes. Change the image mode to Indexed and it should prompt you for number of colours and other options. After exporting the PNG, it still

RE: [Gimp-user] png compression

2005-04-14 Thread Jim Clark
Things get odder and odder. I need to put 10 screen shots on a web page and was hoping to shave 100K from the final page. So I took one of my images and indexed it. Before index: 27004 After index:30705. It got larger? I downloaded and installed a png crusher and ran it against both

RE: [Gimp-user] png compression

2005-04-14 Thread Kalle Ounapuu
Message-From: Jim Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:05 PMTo: Kalle OunapuuCc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.eduSubject: RE: [Gimp-user] png compression Things get odder and odder.I need to put 10 screen shots on a web page and was hoping to shave 100K

Re: [Gimp-user] png compression

2005-04-14 Thread Simon Budig
Jim Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Things get odder and odder. I need to put 10 screen shots on a web page and was hoping to shave 100K from the final page. So I took one of my images and indexed it. Before index: 27004 After index:30705. It got larger? This can happen when

Re: [Gimp-user] png compression

2005-04-14 Thread Jim Clark
I no-dithered and I crushed and I reduced my 10 images from 165084 to 113479 without using any thumbnails. 50K isn't 100K, but it is a significant reduction, and with no visible loss of image quality. Worked well--thanks for the pointers. Jim Clark

Re: [Gimp-user] png compression

2005-04-14 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:16:30PM -0500, Jim Clark wrote: Is there something I should be doing to get a smaller file size? a not so obvious file size issue is whether or not your image has an alpha channel. if your png needs transparent areas then this is a needed channel. if your png does

Re: [Gimp-user] png compression

2005-04-14 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Thursday 14 April 2005 18:51, Jim Clark wrote: I no-dithered and I crushed and I reduced my 10 images from 165084 to 113479 without using any thumbnails. 50K isn't 100K, but it is a significant reduction, and with no visible loss of image quality. Worked well--thanks for the pointers.

Re: [Gimp-user] PNG and transparency

2005-03-16 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:08:35 +0100, Johannes Reese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while with others all I can reach is substituting the selected area by the background color. How can I force those files to delete to transparency? You must make sure the image is in RGB mode (the titlebar should

Re: [Gimp-user] png

2003-12-08 Thread Bob Lockie
On 11/30/03 19:39 Daniel Carrera spoke thuslybr My first guess would be that KSnapshot made an indexed image and GIMP and ImageMagick are saving it as RGB. That shouldn't happen though. Check the compression level. It could just be that KSnapshot is better at making PNGs. But I would be

Re: [Gimp-user] png

2003-12-08 Thread Marco Wessel
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:43:43PM -0500, Bob Lockie wrote: KSnapshot: 34 108 bytes, 585x385, 24bbp, RGB, deflate. Gimp: 78 896 bytes, 400x263, 24bbp, RGB, deflate, compression 9. There are no options in KSnapshot so I don't know what the compression level is (can it be higher than the

Re: [Gimp-user] png

2003-12-08 Thread Bob Lockie
On 12/08/03 16:57 Marco Wessel spoke thuslybr On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:43:43PM -0500, Bob Lockie wrote: KSnapshot: 34 108 bytes, 585x385, 24bbp, RGB, deflate. Gimp: 78 896 bytes, 400x263, 24bbp, RGB, deflate, compression 9. There are no options in KSnapshot so I don't know what the compression

Re: [Gimp-user] png

2003-12-08 Thread Marco Wessel
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:13:47PM -0500, Bob Lockie wrote: The pics are on the web at: http://www.lockie.ca/test/ksnapshot.png http://www.lockie.ca/test/gimp.png Ugh, KDE is ugly.. *ducks* Anyway, this is exactly what I said. When you rescaled the image you made it harder to compress

Re: [Gimp-user] png

2003-11-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
My first guess would be that KSnapshot made an indexed image and GIMP and ImageMagick are saving it as RGB. That shouldn't happen though. Check the compression level. It could just be that KSnapshot is better at making PNGs. But I would be surprised because GIMP and ImageMagick are both

Re: [Gimp-user] PNG compression level 6 or 9 ?

2003-06-06 Thread David selby
Daniel Carrera wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 09:31:05PM +0100, David selby wrote: When saving PNGs gimp defaults to compression level 6. Is there any reason why I should not use compression level 9 ... Is there a reason why this is not the default ? Dave I understand that the higher the

Re: [Gimp-user] PNG compression level 6 or 9 ?

2003-06-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 09:31:05PM +0100, David selby wrote: When saving PNGs gimp defaults to compression level 6. Is there any reason why I should not use compression level 9 ... Is there a reason why this is not the default ? Dave I understand that the higher the compression the longer