Pictures

[LaJota 4]

hi everyone. just i want to know (because it is the only way i contributed to the wiki)how can i do to make the photos are 225 x 225?

[CarpetCrawler 280]

This site could help you out if you need a quick fix:

http://www.online-image-editor.com/

[Chekhov MacGuffin 1089]

hi everyone. just i want to know (because it is the only way i contributed to the wiki)how can i do to make the photos are 225 x 225?

If you run a Windows box, Ms paint is an easy way to crop and save (but not resize), but just don't save your pics as jpegs because the loss of quality is retina searing. If you have to resize a picture in windows without any decent graphics programs, you can preview the image in a standard finder window, shrink the size of the window until it is the right size, take a screenshot of the shrunken image, and paste it back into paint.

On a Mac machine, Grab might be able to do the same things as MsPaint. There might be some nicer preinstalled software though. I don't use macs, so my knowledge is pretty limited.

[LaJota 4]

thanks..

P.D: i have windows

[CarpetCrawler 280]

If you run a Windows box, Ms paint is an easy way to crop and save (but not resize), but just don't save your pics as jpegs because the loss of quality is retina searing.

Agreed. I've been trying to phase out .jpeg images for .png images on the wiki.

[Incognito 34]

Agreed. I've been trying to phase out .jpeg images for .png images on the wiki.

ohh.. i've been deliberately saving everything as jpg 'coz i thought it was still the DCWiki standard.

[CarpetCrawler 280]

ohh.. i've been deliberately saving everything as jpg 'coz i thought it was still the DCWiki standard.

Well, no worries~ Just start doing it as .png from now on, and worry about the other stuff later.

[Southpaw 61]

it's called GIMP, people! it's available for windows and mac, and is a pretty damn good open source version of photoshop

[Maurice 274]

Actually both .jpg and .png have their uses. PNG is perfect for small pictures, some other pictures that don't have a lot of color variation and for pictures that have transparency flags. Jpg is great for bigger and colorful pictures. Regarding the loss of quality, it depends on the software you use. I usually save my pictures with a quality of 8/10 in Photoshop and it's pretty good. The point is, I'd use Jpg over PNG for those specific pictures because they are much smaller in size in general (again, mainly for bigger and colorful pictures). It's a wiki after all and it's best to try and save on picture size or some pages may end up with several megabytes of data to be loaded which is huge! And with a quality ratio of 8/10, you'd barely (or just slightly) tell the difference between a Jpg and PNG, which is perfectly acceptable.

For icons (e.g. Plot legend), country flags, small character pictures, PNG is indeed much better.

Just a random example: a 640x480 picture could be saved in Jpg for about 50Kb. The same picture in PNG could be around 250 Kb or more! And the quality difference wouldn't be quite noticeable (given a good jpg quality ratio). It'd be even less noticeable (or not noticeable at all) if the source is not of perfect quality from the start (like it'd be if it was an HD episode for example).

To sum up, there's not really a standard at this point but the way I've been doing things, I prefer saving to jpg the following:

- Profile pictures, character pictures, people pictures, gallery pictures, ...

I use PNG for:

- Icons, flags, plot legend, small pictures, ... (they could also be used for the 60px version of characters which we could start converting to if we wanted to)