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[challenge entry] Surely he'd be tempted to take a proportion of each one?


(and apologies for deleting - file size was too big!)

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(I helped save b3ta! Spunkmeyer, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:37, archived)
# You bad, bad person!
Just for that, look at the popular page.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:39, archived)
# ^ Twunt!

EDIT: Not you Tribs, the other lady
(I helped save b3ta! Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:50, archived)
# clever
have a click
(I helped save b3ta! The Twisted Omentum vidi vici veni, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:41, archived)
# You take the red pill you keep the Labor government, you take the Blue pill and wake up to powerful Tories who will show you just how much their trust funds will grow
Edit: now less wordy
(I helped save b3ta! keo COCKS COCKS COCKS, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:42, archived)
# I was gonna click this reply
but I preferred the one that got deleted. This new revised version is too wordy - it loses its edge.
edit: much better - snappier and more to the point. Like my banjo string.
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:46, archived)
# A Deja Vu? That means they changed their manifesto!
(I helped save b3ta! keo COCKS COCKS COCKS, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:47, archived)
# hahah!
(I helped save b3ta! Jimbuktu See? Right here, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:48, archived)
# Arf!
(I helped save b3ta! Spunkmeyer, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:49, archived)
# Threadjack!
but are there any good ideas how to keep background image transparency without having massive PNG filesize? Gif doesn't seem to work, and I don't want to drop a massive filesize on /board and get lynched. I can get no lower than 743k where gif would be 40k but the background borks. :(
(I helped save b3ta! Jimbuktu See? Right here, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:48, archived)
# Upload it somewhere and we can take a look?
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:49, archived)
# Cheers.
Rather spoils the intended effect popping it on here but I'll never learn otherwise. This is the .gif
(I helped save b3ta! Jimbuktu See? Right here, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:53, archived)
# You didn't save it as an animation, or something, did you?
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:56, archived)
# Nope!
Peter Davidson got his elephant comp gif to about 15k! Grrr..
(I helped save b3ta! Jimbuktu See? Right here, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:59, archived)
# whack the png file somewhere and I'll see if I can squish it under 100k for you
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:57, archived)
# Ta!
Hang on...
(I helped save b3ta! Jimbuktu See? Right here, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:59, archived)
# GIF 128 No Dither
As transparency (removed the pure white) gets it to 21K.
tribs.uuuq.com/Loverkillertest2.gif
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Mon 10 May 2010, 22:03, archived)
# ooh,
I just uploaded the PNG too!
Thanks! :) Now to test it! I won't start a new thread I think.
EDIT: Thanks all, still leaving white lines inbetween the colour changes and around the 'hidden' objects. I'll keep playing though. :)
(I helped save b3ta! Jimbuktu See? Right here, Mon 10 May 2010, 22:09, archived)
# I dunno what stopped you gettign a transparent background in the gif.
In GIMP, I get caught out all the time by forgetting to add an alpha channel.
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Mon 10 May 2010, 22:12, archived)
# a few options:
pngcrush is a somewhat fiddly to use command-line only png compressor that makes crazy small lossless files

if you use photoshop - the SuperPNG plugin makes reasonably small png files.

some other image editors/converters have compression features.

Generally though, png files are not all that small. So the next option is to reduce the resolution of the image.
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:51, archived)
# Hmm
Been looking at PNGcrush, and looks fiddly. I use Fireworks not photoshop (with a side of illustrator) as that's what I know, normally I .gif my images fine but want to play with things appearing/disappearing on the board.
(I helped save b3ta! Jimbuktu See? Right here, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:56, archived)
# Ohhhhh, I see.
In which case I'm not being a whole lot of help. Sorry about that.
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Mon 10 May 2010, 22:23, archived)
# IrfanView has a plugin for compressing PNGs
However it's not amazing. I saved your GIF as PNG with transparent background and it somes out as about 50k using the default settings, 18k with the PNGOUT plugin. I had a white background in IrfanView when I saved it.

http://www.b3tards.com/u/aa762463d2318a85319b/clipboard01.png
(I helped save b3ta! thistle, Mon 10 May 2010, 22:06, archived)
# If the semitransparent stuff is mainly in one area you could slice it in to multiple files.
Or go for a 8bit png / gif with a matte of a light grey midway between the board's post colours.

edit: If you like the sound of PNGcrush, there's also psydk.org/PngOptimizer.php . It's stand-alone (you don't need to install it).
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:58, archived)
# Clever.
But already bindun and at the top of the popular page
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:50, archived)
# Cheers
Haven't been on b3ta in weeks (hangs head in shame) and had more than a hunch that it would've bindun. Oh fiddles!
(I helped save b3ta! Spunkmeyer, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:53, archived)
# I feel your pain
(I helped save b3ta! 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Mon 10 May 2010, 21:58, archived)
#
Why would cameron be giving him the choice of labour anyway?
(Testicles just for you, Mon 10 May 2010, 23:56, archived)