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The support forum is back online!

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 4:27 pm
by admin
This forum is my primary support vehicle for my tools. I can still be found at other forums around the web, but if you want to be sure to reach me for support this is the place.

I've upgraded to PHPBB 3 to hopefully keep the hackers/vandals at bay.

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Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 5:31 pm
by laserfan
Wow, the paint isn't even dry yet! Honestly, I didn't know you'd ended the old support forum :o but I'm glad to see your new beginning. Good luck with it!

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 6:39 pm
by admin
Thanks for registering! It was a bit lonely in here by myself. :lol:

I didn't end the previous forum, the hackers did. Hopefully with this latest version of PHPBB, we'll be OK.

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:24 am
by laserfan
neuron2 wrote:Thanks for registering! It was a bit lonely in here by myself. :lol:

I didn't end the previous forum, the hackers did.
Geez, if it's not one thing then it's another isn't it. :o

I don't recall that the old board was ever very active, and maybe you're a bit tentative about "yet another place to keep track of", but now you need to get the word out... Else it's just you & me and our geek-ness! :geek:

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:34 pm
by adiabatic
Looks great, spammer-free too!

Now, can I interest you in the finest cosplay and weft wigs?

Kidding :)

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:38 pm
by admin
Welcome. Spammers will be along soon I'm sure. If necessary I'll make some special captcha sauce.

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:33 am
by laserfan
>If necessary I'll make some special captcha sauce.

Good grief I've been online since the late 70s (with a 300baud modem) but had to look up "captcha"!

One of the many reasons I love this hobby--always something new to learn. :)

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 8:43 pm
by admin
laserfan wrote:One of the many reasons I love this hobby--always something new to learn.
Haven't learned to make an avatar yet? :P

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:08 am
by Audionut
MrVideo wrote:As can be seen, I have an avatar. Problem is that it can't be 90x90 because the file size limit doesn't really match what it needs to be for that size. I'm sure you ran across that problem putting your avatar into the system. 6 kB is good for line drawings, not photos.

Pfft.
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5980bytes

There's alot more information to encode than you're little doggy photo too. Find a better compressor.
MrVideo wrote:[Any particular reason for the extremely low image size?
A full page of txt can probably be only 6Kb. Allowing people to have spastic avatar sizes is just silly for what this site is about. Hosting/Performance for a start.

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:45 am
by admin
I've bumped the max to 120x120 at 32768 bytes.

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 9:33 am
by laserfan
admin wrote:
laserfan wrote:One of the many reasons I love this hobby--always something new to learn.
Haven't learned to make an avatar yet? :P
Ok, you shamed me into it!

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 9:55 am
by admin
Who dat guy?

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:10 pm
by Audionut
MrVideo wrote:The JPEG compressor within Photoshop CS2 gave too large of a result, even when set to 2. Ended up using PNG.
Wow, adobe must have made some big gains with their jpg compressor.

Here's the result in CS5 at 100% quality for your 70x70 already compressed avatar,

4,529 bytes
Image

And at 70% - 2,296 bytes
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Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:43 pm
by clumpco
admin wrote:Haven't learned to make an avatar yet? :P
Good job I read this thread, I had to look up "Avatar" :P

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:26 pm
by clumpco
MrVideo wrote:Nope. Even cropping the 2200x2200 image to 2200x1500 and shrinking that to 70x48 didn't make a difference. At a level of 5, the JPG was still 14kB.
Try this tool. Set to 10% size and 80% quality and drop the file on it to get a 220x220 version. Then drop this version in with size set to 33% and try different quality settings.

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:53 pm
by Audionut
MrVideo wrote:At a level of 5, the JPG was still 14kB.
Use "save for web and devices", not "save as".

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 4:11 pm
by clumpco
MrVideo wrote:That tool did indeed work. Strange that the user can't enter the desired reduction value, or even enter the dimensions in pixels.
I wrote it for a specific purpose, which was to drop 3-4MB photos to a few 100K for email attachment. Since it works as a batch on a bunch of different sized images I decided just to use reduction percentage rather than desired size.

Re: The support forum is back online!

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:04 pm
by kypec
Audionut wrote:
MrVideo wrote:Here's the result in CS5 at 100% quality for your 70x70 already compressed avatar,

4,529 bytes
Image

And at 70% - 2,296 bytes
Image
I've used my everyday PictView plugin for Altap Salamander and saved with 80% quality = 1,583 bytes ;)
Image

BTW: Price of that plugin is about 1000x smaller than that of CS5, go figure :o