I went ahead and did 2-4 SSDs per web page. It also makes it easier to
print out so they don't spill over to the right. It isn't finished, yet, I
still have to add some SSDs under the Miscellaneous section. which will
probably have more of the weird designs (which I'm going to do next so you may
see stuff there anyway by the time you read this).
I've noticed that the conversion from.bmp files to.jpg files gets a little
blurry. I'm using MSPaint (its free and was on my PC, works good for
.bmp files). What are better, preferably free, .jpg editors/conversion
software?
> GBailey@aol.com wrote:
> I went ahead and did 2-4 SSDs per web page. It also makes it easier
I put my ship designs in text tables, with links to the SSDs - that way
the text file loads quickly and then SSDs can be loaded on demand. If someone
else wants to use my SSDs then they can download them singly and make up a
custom page of whatever ones they need for their fleet.
> I've noticed that the conversion from .bmp files to .jpg files gets a
Paintship Pro is a shareware graphics editor which you can get all over the
net or on coverdisks. It's very good at converting between various graphics
file formats. I don't know if later versions have the option to specify the
quality of a JPEG image which then allows you to choose the tradeoff between
image quality (level of 'blurriness') and file size. In the UK, older or
'Lite' versions have been given away recently on magazine disks.
On 10-Feb-00 at 10:12, Phillip Atcliffe (Phillip.Atcliffe@uwe.ac.uk)
wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:54:39 +0000 Tony Francis <tony@glassghost.com>
> option to specify the quality of a JPEG image which then allows you to
> choose the tradeoff between image quality (level of 'blurriness') and
Gotta love the Windows registry.
> Phillip Atcliffe wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:54:39 +0000 Tony Francis <tony@glassghost.com>
There should be plenty of older shareware versions available which don't have
this 'feature'. I still use a registered copy of version 3.1, which is more
than adequate for most purposes (like SSDs).
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:54:39 +0000 Tony Francis <tony@glassghost.com>
wrote:
> Paintshop Pro is a shareware graphics editor which you can get all
Watch out, though; PSP 6.0 includes a nasty little time-out which
prevents you from using it after 60 days have passed since it was
installed -- they want you to buy the software. It seemes to be
doubly sneaky in that, when I deleted and re-installed it, I _still_
got the time-out when starting the new copy...
Phil
> At 07:34 PM 2/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
to be a bit more precise, use.jpg for photographs, or other images with a lot
of 'noise'. Line art and simple (*very* simple) patterns or regular images
with small color palettes or large areas of exactly the same color value
should be in.gif.
> Watch out, though; PSP 6.0 includes a nasty little time-out which
delete the psp.ini file before you reinstall;)
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Tony Francis wrote:
> GBailey@aol.com wrote:
i'd second that; it means there are no big inline images to slow down
browsing, but the SSDs are available. you might also want to provide zip
files containing all the SSDs for each race/style (eg
federation-ssd.zip,
romulan-ssd.zip, etc), so that people who are after the lot can get them
easily.
tom
> I went ahead and did 2-4 SSDs per web page. It also makes it easier to
Simple bitmap graphics like your SSDs will compress as well or better as GIF
files, and they won't get blurry. You only need jpegs for photos
and other continuous-tone bitmaps. Try saving one of your original
.bmp files as a.gif, and see how it compares; I would expect something
around 10x-15x or better compression for your SSDs.
- Sam