Ava/Sig Thread

[x5ga]

^ hehe Thanks the source pic looks kinda weird...

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the VN is pretty good though, it's called Hanachirasu. Made by Nitro+ and recently translated into English @tlwiki

[Havoc10K]

I know the VN, I enjoyed it, I kinda knew it was this pic, wanted to make sure, you did a nice play on hue I guess, if you look at it, you will notice your avatar hides the little ugly inconsistency in the picture i like this avatar, looks pretty and elegant for some reason

[Kyrdua]

so I made this one, for the upcoming December, I will change it slightly for X-mass, and then for new years, and I will get a new one for January 2011, it will be special

this is a v1.1
what was fixed, the v1.0 didn't have "?" after "shrimps", it's the only change.

163 KB? and this is made by a person who complained about someone's 109 kb animated avatar...

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DON'T EAT ME!!

[Tatsujin]

^ hehe Thanks the source pic looks kinda weird...

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the VN is pretty good though, it's called Hanachirasu. Made by Nitro+ and recently translated into English @tlwiki

Maybe I get the torrent link please? For the VN. (PM it to me!)

[Havoc10K]

so I made this one, for the upcoming December, I will change it slightly for X-mass, and then for new years, and I will get a new one for January 2011, it will be special

this is a v1.1
what was fixed, the v1.0 didn't have "?" after "shrimps", it's the only change.

163 KB? and this is made by a person who complained about someone's 109 kb animated avatar...

(click to show/hide)

DON'T EAT ME!!

hmm, didn't notice it's that heavy, gonna work it hard later to make it work
it does have quite a bit of elements

[Kyrdua]

so I made this one, for the upcoming December, I will change it slightly for X-mass, and then for new years, and I will get a new one for January 2011, it will be special

this is a v1.1
what was fixed, the v1.0 didn't have "?" after "shrimps", it's the only change.

163 KB? and this is made by a person who complained about someone's 109 kb animated avatar...

(click to show/hide)

DON'T EAT ME!!

hmm, didn't notice it's that heavy, gonna work it hard later to make it work
it does have quite a bit of elements

that's supposed to be PNG, it was around 126 KB, i think. but making it a jpg reduced its filesize and its quality(a little). i suggest you use jpgs for sig/avatars with no transparency or animation. though it's obviously lower quality than png, it's barely noticable, unless you actually zoom people's sigs while reading the forum, which is something i doubt anyone would do.

[Havoc10K]

Jpeg:

png:

my blind eye tells me I didn't lose much quality

105 still :P
guess jpeg at 12 quality setting with max details (5 level) was a bit too much :)

and lol:
Dimensions 0 × 0
File size105.41KB
MIME type image/jpeg

nice dimensions :D
I can has ? XD

Jpeg v2:

85kb

[Kyrdua]

Jpeg:

png:

my blind eye tells me I didn't lose much quality

105 still
guess jpeg at 12 quality setting with max details (5 level) was a bit too much

Jpeg v2:

85kb

still quite big, what the hell are you using? photoshop CS3? I made mine with CS3 and it shrunk it to 28 kb.

and lol:
Dimensions 0 × 0
File size105.41KB
MIME type image/jpeg

nice dimensions
I can has ? XD

WAT... you're looking at the wrong things mate. that's the "dimensions" of the rotator i'm using, the "Scaled to NxN" is it's actual dimensions.

[Xyresic]

Havoc: (This is more for transparent .png images that exceed 100kb, but works if you're picky about quality and want to retain as much without cutting down)





^Sets amount, generally 20-40 levels



^Since no alpha channels are needed, uncheck transparency to free up more space while still retaining png quality

=
;

=~

[Enzedder]

I was waiting for someone to mention that. Was wondering why everyone was turning their sigs into jpgs. I would have just posterized the few kbs out.

[Xyresic]

I was waiting for someone to mention that. Was wondering why everyone was turning their sigs into jpgs. I would have just posterized the few kbs out.

What's a jpgs?

[Kyrdua]

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Havoc: (This is more for transparent .png images that exceed 100kb, but works if you're picky about quality and want to retain as much without cutting down)





^Sets amount, generally 20-40 levels



^Since no alpha channels are needed, uncheck transparency to free up more space while still retaining png quality

=
;

=~

I don't see any difference at all, but it really is smaller. mind explaining what exactly happened here? the only thing i get is that "posterize" hmm, how should i put this...posterizes compresses the colours if that's even the proper term for it.

also, is that dropbox file host any good?

@ jpgs: that's probably an encrypted version of jpg, much like https. 

[Xyresic]

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Havoc: (This is more for transparent .png images that exceed 100kb, but works if you're picky about quality and want to retain as much without cutting down)





^Sets amount, generally 20-40 levels



^Since no alpha channels are needed, uncheck transparency to free up more space while still retaining png quality

=
;

=~

I don't see any difference at all, but it really is smaller. mind explaining what exactly happened here? the only thing i get is that "posterize" hmm, how should i put this...posterizes compresses the colours if that's even the proper term for it.

also, is that dropbox file host any good?

@ jpgs: that's probably an encrypted version of jpg, much like https.  

@The response to jpgs: GENIUS!

Dropbox is THE BEST THING EVER, sign up NOW! ( And use my referral link please~ https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTI1ODgzMzg5 )

And posterizing a image is sorta like lossy compression (jpg), except it's optimizing the image by making VERY minute changes to the color table.

So for example, if there was 2 colors that were really really close in color, i.e. #000000 and #000001 - no one is every going to notice the difference between the two, and it would save space (one less color to consider in the .png color table) if either #000000 or #000001 was discarded, and the discarded color change into the one that was kept.

So yes, there IS a loss in quality, but when you're talking about .png images - which hold millions of colors, throwing away a few thousand can dramatically decrease the file-size while still retaining pseudo-lossless conditions.

And that is basically posterization

/end class

For more information, here's a much more detailed (and boring) article on .png optimization: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/15/clever-png-optimization-techniques/

[Enzedder]

>_>

You guys annoy me sometimes.

[Havoc10K]

thanks for teaching me about posterizing :)


me happy now :) the sig still looks cute :)

>_>

You guys annoy me sometimes. :P

/hug

there, there :)
/pat

[Meomix]

Wow photoshop had a hidden mode .ptz i'll be damned.

[Kyrdua]

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@The response to jpgs: GENIUS!

Dropbox is THE BEST THING EVER, sign up NOW! ( And use my referral link please~ https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTI1ODgzMzg5 )

And posterizing a image is sorta like lossy compression (jpg), except it's optimizing the image by making VERY minute changes to the color table.

So for example, if there was 2 colors that were really really close in color, i.e. #000000 and #000001 - no one is every going to notice the difference between the two, and it would save space (one less color to consider in the .png color table) if either #000000 or #000001 was discarded, and the discarded color change into the one that was kept.

So yes, there IS a loss in quality, but when you're talking about .png images - which hold millions of colors, throwing away a few thousand can dramatically decrease the file-size while still retaining pseudo-lossless conditions.

And that is basically posterization

/end class

For more information, here's a much more detailed (and boring) article on .png optimization: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/15/clever-png-optimization-techniques/

Thanks for the lesson sensei! imma checkout that dropbox thinky later.
EDIT: Not boring at all dude, especially the dirty transparency one. shrunk a png render of mine from 2.5 MB to 500 KB.

@ Enzedder uh~ sorry~ /pets Enz on the head.

@ havok the more you slap Ika Musume to everything the cuter she appears to me.(i'm sure i'm going to regret this statement someday...)

[Havoc10K]

I think I am the only one having Ika in sig/ava, so I think i am kinda special or unique, thank you for your opinion though, I try to post a cute pic of her, to advertise her cuteness

[SirSkyRider]

New sig - as usual extremely uncreative and created within 10 minutes. 

[1000mAh]

Not so bad