art / gfx New GFX images - Need help

[gigabyte]

gosh i really like this w:et logo more than correct one

 

maybe try to combine it with this background posted above

 

They will look ugly with that template.

[Aniky]

They will look ugly with that template.

 

 

well u need to combine everything with same style, so it wont look so diffrent at forums.

 

its only suggestion to see how it looks, still can be other samples used.

[Saizou]

I merely followed the style that those few icons had, I tried to make other ones to fit in with them. Never meant to dictate style, didn't actually thought they were going to be accepted for the time being.

[MΛXMΛИ]

Here's the template I used (I took it from that camera image):

 

I'm pretty sure all of them should be 60x60 pixels (even imageshack says they are), but if they are still to large I'll resize them.

Keeping in view the background template as provided above, please see few more ideas:

 

 

Hope these would help!

[Saizou]

Keeping in view the background template as provided above, please see few more ideas:

 

 

Hope these would help!

 

Damn, very nice ones. Great work!

[daredevil]

I am very very thankful to you guys for making awesome images!

 

Is their anyway we can make all images strictly 50 x 50 in gif format, without that blue background?

 

i.e. like this:

 

 

Reason is I am planning to add one more new skin and blue background want match in it! So, if we make it without background it will go in all skins without any problem!

 

Thanks to saizo, gigabyte and MΛXMΛИ!!! I really like what you guys did!!!

[gigabyte]

I am very very thankful to you guys for making awesome images!

 

Is their anyway we can make all images strictly 50 x 50 in gif format, without that blue background?

 

i.e. like this:

 

 

Reason is I am planning to add one more new skin and blue background want match in it! So, if we make it without background it will go in all skins without any problem!

 

Thanks to saizo, gigabyte and MΛXMΛИ!!! I really like what you guys did!!!

Your welcome. The blue background wont show on png images if the user has a modern browser. But i will make them 50X50 in gif anyway just in case you want to use them.

 

Edit: i just noticed you already have some as .gif's, do you still want all of the as gif's? i made some as gif's but quality looked horrible.

 

 

Edited March 24, 2010 by gigabyte

[MΛXMΛИ]

Damn, very nice ones. Great work!

Thank you Saizou... Glad to see that you like these designs...

I am very very thankful to you guys for making awesome images!

 

Is their anyway we can make all images strictly 50 x 50 in gif format, without that blue background?

 

i.e. like this:

 

 

Reason is I am planning to add one more new skin and blue background want match in it! So, if we make it without background it will go in all skins without any problem!

 

Thanks to saizo, gigabyte and MΛXMΛИ!!! I really like what you guys did!!!

You're more than welcome Chief! My pleasure...

[daredevil]

Yes please I want all gif. You guys have posted in png and i just renamed them and using it as gif.

 

50 x 50 cos in new skin 60 x 60 will look much bigger. There are some big changes coming to forums in up coming weeks.

 

I want size smaller because if you have 12 icons of 10kb then user will need to download all that 120Kb and hence it takes a little longer time for low end internet users. After that it stays in cache so it loads fast.

 

If you guys can minimize the size by keeping the quality level almost same it would be really appreciated.

 

Thank you all!!

[MΛXMΛИ]

For some reason there's a widespread misconception that the GIF image format compresses images more than the PNG format.

 

One probable reason for this is that people make comparisons in the wrong way. Typically these people will open e.g. a JPEG file in an image editor and then save it without any conversion to a PNG and a GIF and compare the file sizes directly and make the deduction that GIF compresses better.

 

Of course they're comparing apples to oranges here. The PNG is storing losslessly all the information in the input JPEG (that is, 24 bits per pixel) while the GIF is only storing 256 colors from the original JPEG (that is, 8 bits per pixel). In other words, the GIF is lossy (with respect to the original JPEG). No wonder the PNG file is larger, as it's storing three times as much information as the GIF.

 

A correct comparison would be, of course, to convert the image to 8-bit format first and then save it in PNG and GIF formats (or,

alternatively, save it in GIF format, then open that GIF and save it to a PNG). This way both the GIF and the PNG contain the exact same pixel data. When the correct comparison is done, PNG beats GIF hands down in compression.

 

Here are few instances of comparisons (click on the images to see the originals). The TGA versions are in raw format, i.e. no compression at all. The size of the TGA file is always the amount of pixels (ie. width times height) plus 768 bytes for the palette plus 18 bytes for the TGA header (so for example a 800x600 image always takes exactly 480 786 bytes). This is used as a comparison.

 

 

PNG beats GIF in all the testcases. Some images, such as the second one (the blue fractal image) are in fact so pathological that the GIF file is actually larger than the raw TGA file.

 

For some reason it seems that GIF compresses grayscale images very poorly compared to PNG. While PNG has directly a grayscale mode (i.e. it doesn't use a palette) while a GIF always uses a palette, the palette data in the GIF file only takes 768 bytes so that doesn't explain the poor result.

 

Another prominent example is the simple vertical gradient image which compresses as PNG to almost one tenth of the size of the GIF.

 

Courtesy: A Finnish Enthusiast

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thanks Maxman for the information +1

 

personally I use png all time time, anyway png was developed and designed to offer the main features of the gif with greater depth of color, and to surpass the limitations of gif...

[Saizou]

Removed the background, resized to 50x50 and in .gif format:

 

Somehow they look blockier than before, and I'm not sure I if can help it

[daredevil]

I think if we want to use png then we will need to change back end code to support it. I will see if I can fix it.

 

Can you just make image in png and then save it in gif?

 

@Saizou i agree on blockier part. We also need to redo our all images to 50 x 50 in png then. I will try to fix the code by this or next weekend.

[gigabyte]

I think if we want to use png then we will need to change back end code to support it. I will see if I can fix it.

 

Can you just make image in png and then save it in gif?

 

@Saizou i agree on blockier part. We also need to redo our all images to 50 x 50 in png then. I will try to fix the code by this or next weekend.

 

Yeah not my decision but if it were i would go with PNG they are much smoother and better color quality as well. The blue background the PNG images have only show on old and crappy browsers like IE 6, but with modern browsers you wont see it just the image itself.

 

All 50x50 or under and all under 6KB

 

Even so i still tried to go with GIF and failed. I use Photoshop CS4 and it added new things to they're option to save images for web use and after a while of trying the images still came out crappy, here is an example of what i got.

Edited March 26, 2010 by gigabyte

[MΛXMΛИ]

Part-A: New Series of Icons (50 x 50) for Forum...

 

Edited April 2, 2010 by MΛXMΛИ