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 for

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 same

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 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, dithering

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 No

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

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

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