| Message |
Web formats are jpg, gif, and png. I'm surprised to see that web
browsers will even display bmp files - when did they make that change?Anyway, like ni[x]it hints at, posting bmp files on the web makes others
have to suffer through long download times since the files are so huge.
The following file is a 12k jpg file. The same file saved as a bmp is 688k.
It's only 553 x 392 pixels, at 72 dpi. 
And as LordZ says, you should be able to save out jpg files from MS
Paint. If I were on a PC, I'd tell you how - sorry I can't help you there.
When you do figure it out, be sure to experiment with the different
compression amounts to see how small you can get a file and not see
much artifacting. This will vary from file to file. One more tip from the graphics geek: If your image is a graphic
containing mostly flat areas of color, gif is a better format than jpg to
save in as, you can see from the following examples: colortest.gif:
 colortest.jpg:
|
 |
