Help With Images

[Anirudh Gupta]

|>   Can anyone give me some suggestions re the manipulation of images that I  
want 

|>   to server over the web. I have available Omni Image 3.0.1, Image Viewer  
0.9i, 

|>   Icon Builder, the pbmplus apps and Paintshop Pro running under SoftPC. My 

|>   problem is that the images as I have them (Color) take up the entire  
screen 

|>   when displayed by anything other than Image Viewer and are quite large,  
from 

|>   one to eight megabytes -- to large to serve as inline images, and perhaps  
even 

|>   as requested images. I want to reduce their size, both as displayed and 

|>   stored. Any suggestions as to how that might be done will be appreciated.
|>   

|>   Thank You
|>   

|>   _DAVID WARNER
|>   


Like Tom Nawara said in the previous thread post, if you do not need the images  
to be insanely large (in size), you must shrink them. Usually using an image  
filter, like ImageViewer.app, and shrinking the images by crudely reducing  
their size in the inspector results in distortions and other unwanted loss in  
image quality.

I would suggest that you get an image manipulation program like CIC or a  
wonderful paint box like Wetpaint.app. Besides many wonderful things, Wetpaint  
will allow you to reduce the size of the images and at the same time anti-alias  
them so as to get rid of the harsh distortions.

Last I knew you could find a demo copy of Wetpaint or CIC in ft.cs.orst.edu. 


Hope you find this is helpful.

-Ani.
P.S. For a peek at some impressive things wetpaint can allow you to achieve,  
check out the images in my home page (WARNING : the bigger gifs are approx. 40k  
in size....)

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