Thus spake "daren": > I am using crops of actual pictures of miniatures for pieces. This is > making the module very large. Is there a way to break up the files to > form smaller ones. I was thinking if possible I could separate the > modules for each faction which would allow for easer editing in > expansions. >
I assume that your photos are JPEGs? If so, you can dramatically reduce the size of the images by reducing the image quality a little. Example: JPEGs which come from my camera are at 100% quality and are 2900kB. Reducing the quality to 90% (in GIMP: you can set the quality when you use Save or Save As) makes no noticeable difference but reduces the file size to about 1000kB. Going as low as 50% gives me a file size of 300kB, but at that point there's some noticeable degradation of the image. How low you can go in quality and still get good results depends very much on the characteristics of individual images. If you don't have too many photos to adjust, you could do them one at at time in GIMP (or Photoshop, I suppose). If you have a lot of images and want to adjust the quality programmatically, you could use ImageMagick for that. Also, be sure to keep the originals---if you ever need to make changes, you'll want to work from the higher-quality photos, not the reduced-quality ones. -- J.
