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Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 11:38am

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Reply #1 - Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 12:04pm

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A great shot, but it is unfortunately ruined by compression. Be sure to take full advantage of the 100KB. Other than that, good job! Wink

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Reply #2 - Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 12:58pm

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Compression is a female dog.

But considering the complexity of the background shot, it's to be expected Wink

Good shot though, its a good edit, do you have the uncompressed version you can upload to photobucket or something?

Alex

<EDIT> Just realized you have another 50kb to play with, shots only have to be below 100k, you could upload a less-compressed version Wink

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Reply #3 - Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 1:02pm

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Sweet! Nice clouds, great lighting!

DF and Alex do have a point there, Brett. You could almost double the kb of this one! Here's what I do:

1) When I'm done with the image I give it a working name, let's say Frip, in this case. Grin

2) I save the image in the least compressed form, which is "10", and start working my way down, keeping track of the compression with an addendum to the name. Frip10.jpg, Frip9.jpg and so on.

3) Then I put the mouse over the image to determine which is closest to 100 kb without going over.

It's easy, only takes a minute and after you've done it for a while you'll have a pretty good idea of what the compression should be to keep it just under 100 kb without having to do more than two or three test samples. Cool

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Reply #4 - Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 1:11pm

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Cheers guys.. Thanks for the tips there Don I'll give that a go.

In the mean time here's the link to SSA with the full PNG BA 757

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Reply #5 - Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 1:22pm

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How's that?

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Reply #6 - Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 1:31pm

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Can't see it, Brett. Something wrong over there. The page seems to keep loading and loading but never fully loads! Undecided

At any rate, are you sure that it's up in .png? In the past they have only accepted .jpg's. You might check to see that it hasn't been automatically converted to a .jpg file! Shocked

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Reply #7 - Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 1:33pm

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Hmmm... I don't see a difference! Did you size up the small one? If you did, that usually doesn't help, hee, hee! You usually need to size down from a larger version. Wink

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Reply #8 - Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 1:41pm

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Nope went back to the original png and sized down mate.. The background was rather grainy in the 1st place so maybe that's the problem. Also I only use png's now at SSA mate and no they're not converted, SSA now takes the big ones. Dunno why it's not working it's fine on mine.

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Reply #9 - Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 1:55pm

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Maybe it's the resample filter you are using. Shocked

Wow, that's kewl that they take .png now! That's my favorite format for posted images!

Well, I have a lot of security stuff on my puter and maybe the SSA site doesn't like that. Noticed that it kept pinging my firewall but my ports are closed so it was denied. Tongue

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Reply #10 - Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 2:12pm

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Quite possibly mate for both comments.. yeah it is great about the png's the quality is fantastic.

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Reply #11 - Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 2:47pm

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Ah! Tweaked my settings! I can see the .png now!

I see what the issue is, Brett! It's quite simply an antialiasing issue! Can you crank your antialiasing up higher? If you can, even if it causes stuttering, it's not an issue when making screenies. You can crank it up for screenies and drop it down for flying.

Also, sometimes things appear "saw toothed" a lot more at certain angles relative to the "camera". Changing the POV can often reduce that quite a bit.

BTW, congrats on becoming Mod of the film making forum over there. Haven't been over there for a long time so I'm not up on what's new.

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Reply #12 - Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 3:03pm

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Cheers mate.. No Don AA and AF are both maxed. I don't care care about stuttering as screenies is what I'm about lol but saying that my system seems to run fs2004 maxed absolutely smoothly and have noticed that about jaggies especially with black or dark paints against a bright sky. White paints also have their own issues.. Sometimes the only way to sort it out is with the straight line tool when editing.

Thanks again regards the mod role mate.. As you know I was a mod for the fsforums there but had to take a forced leave so I ended up in the film making side now.. Bit of a change but I like it.

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Reply #13 - Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 4:39pm

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Sent you a PM with an image in it. Hope you'll be able to see it. If not, I can always email it. At any rate, see if you think it represents some solutions to the graphics issues with this one. Wink

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Reply #14 - Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 5:14pm

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Kleen Harry wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2007 at 1:02pm:

Sweet! Nice clouds, great lighting!

DF and Alex do have a point there, Brett. You could almost double the kb of this one! Here's what I do:

1) When I'm done with the image I give it a working name, let's say Frip, in this case. Grin

2) I save the image in the least compressed form, which is "10", and start working my way down, keeping track of the compression with an addendum to the name. Frip10.jpg, Frip9.jpg and so on.

3) Then I put the mouse over the image to determine which is closest to 100 kb without going over.

I do almost the same thing. However, I just use the same image name and let it replace the one that might be too big/little.

BTW that's one mean looking cloud in the background.

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