Haha cool idea guys! Mine are up!

 

Quick question, i sized my photos in photoshop to 133x100 and always get 39kb. that is down from 900kb. anyway to trim corners to get it to 10kb?

im using photoshop

 

try using the Save For Web option. you may have to lower the quality a bit, it should definitely get down to >10kb.

 

right on. thanks.

 

yeah i resized mine in Photoshop and saved for web and it dropped it down to like 4kb

 

You know what's going to be funny? When some noob asks about THAT rig in the banner... "you know, the second one from the left"...

hahahhahah

 

Funny and annoying.

The banner looks GREAT!


...and was way overdue.

 

Thanks! It was a fun project It should be harder for the banner to get "stale" now

 

Can you make the pics display the filename when you put the mouse over it. That way everyone can see who the pics are from.

btw I resized mine in ms paint. about 8kb.

 

Not without Corey letting me hack into his template. Since the image is produced dynamically and is one image assembled of smaller images, when it is seen by your browser here, it is one image. I could pass the component file names, but that would require changes in the forum templates to look for that imput. That is probably MUCH more involved then Corey wants to get at this point.

 

To much, just a touch to much.

So far I have received about 3 submissions of wrong sized pics.
If you do not see your rig up there, you know why.

The script will not resize your pics for you.
They MUST be sized at 133x100 to work.

A free tool to use is Microsoft's Powertoys "Image Resizer."
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...schelman2.mspx

I used it on mine this morning, and it can do all at once.
Get it here.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

 

I was guilty of this 'cause some of my source pics were originally cropped to something other than a standard size (i.e., 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, etc).

So lemme share that 133x100 is the same ratio as the standard sizes. If your pics are cropped to anything else, then you'll have to play a bit with the source file (like recropping, padding the edges, etc.) to get the ratio correct.


Awesome work you guys...

THANK YOU!

 

We chose that size deliberately for that reason. The plan was to make this as easy as possible for the maximum number of people.

There's plenty of image savvy people on here, so if you can't figure out how to resize or compress pictures to meet the requirements, give a shout and I am betting someone will help you out.

I am playing with a script that will do it for you upon submission, but it can't really crop an image to make it look right. All it can do is mash an image to meet the requirements. If the ratio is different, it's going to look like hell...

 

i love the homer pic!

 

Want to say thank you for all involved in getting this running. By far, one of the, if not the coolest thing we've done here.

I'll be getting some pics ready in the following days.

 

Agreed
and my pics have been sent

 

Still getting bad subs to me.
MS's Image Resizer does not always work when resizing them, you may have to try some other programs.

 

Nice work guys. The banner looks great.

 

Id like to submit a few pics, but when i try to resize them to 133x100 its still over the 10kb, what program out of piant, Irfanview, or picture it 7.0 would you recommend using, this stuff gives me a headache, lol
thankx for any help.
Ric

 

I got mine sent in...I tried MS resizer but it didn't take it small enough so I had marko do mine