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# May the image size get smaller
The following gif was misappropriated. I now discover I was wrong about big images so I would like to add the following prepared statement:

Sorry J-digital, I am a twunt. I will go back and read the FAQs.
(I helped save b3ta! Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Fri 4 May 2012, 13:59, archived)
# oh yeah, that's right, I should have said
THIS IS ALL HUGE AND SHIT AND IS BIGGER THAN THE MOON? ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE MOON? OF COURSE YOU AREN'T AS IT IS DWARFED BY THE SIZE OF THIS GARGANTUAN IMAGE THAT NOT ONLY BLOCKS OUT THE MOON BUT IS BIGGER THAN THE MOON INFACT IF YOU PUT IT NEXT TO THE SUN IT WOULD BLOCK OUT THE SUN TOO THUS PREVENTING THE REFLECTION OF LIGHT FROM THE MOON THUS OBSCURING THE MOON YET FURTHER.

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(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:01, archived)
# This is full of moon
(I helped save b3ta! Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:02, archived)
# bah it's shrunk now!
I'll have to take my outrage out on the scapegoats

bloody scapegoats! It's political correctness gone mad!
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:05, archived)
# Wow yes that extra 6kb really slows things down...
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:01, archived)
# MY GRANDSON WAS SLOWED DOWN TO A CRAWL BY THE EXTRA 6KB
MY GRANDSON!!
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:02, archived)
# I've seen Spectrum computers with less memory*
*I haven't really
(I helped save b3ta! Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:04, archived)
# was there a bigger one first?
haha, what if all the people that complain about file size nazis were complaining about the positive results of file size nazism.

That's actually quite likely and quite amusing when you think about it.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:05, archived)
# My grandson saw this and laughed.
so I beat him with a stick.


MY GRANDSON!!
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:06, archived)
# beat him for me too will you
cheers.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:07, archived)
# :D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:08, archived)
# It was a larger image, weighing in at an outrageous 106.6kb.
I felt a sudden disturbance in the board, as if millions of voices cried "FAQ" in unison, and then were silenced.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:10, archived)
# the way he apologised I assumed it was a 1mb file
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:12, archived)
# Unless I got my decimal point mixed up nope.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:13, archived)
# It was more the physical dimensions of the original than the file-size I think
(I helped save b3ta! Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:15, archived)
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(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:19, archived)
# GDLI
4eva in are hartz :(
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:49, archived)
# is there a limit
is there a max dimention guide? i know there is if you wnat on teh front page but in general?
(J-digital, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:34, archived)
# I think as long as it's not 404 pixels wide you're pretty free with actual image size.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:39, archived)
# hahaha
amazing where being polite gets you isn't it
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:41, archived)
# :o)
It's kind of entered b3ta folklore alongside "too brown"
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:46, archived)
# I never saw the start of too brown
don't suppose you have a link?
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:53, archived)
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(I helped save b3ta! Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:42, archived)
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(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:54, archived)
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(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:58, archived)
# Yeah, adding a 400kB anim to complain about file size really helps things a lot
;)
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:14, archived)
# ^
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:16, archived)
# <
(I helped save b3ta! Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:27, archived)
# this is an example of erm
some

thing.. dunno, something.
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:16, archived)
# I think my comment was perhaps ambiguous.
I said "image size" referring to the really big picture - not "file size" implying it didn't meet the FAQ because it was over 100k
(I helped save b3ta! Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:18, archived)
#
www.b3ta.com/board/10761768
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:21, archived)
# there's no limit on dimensions in the FAQ
"as far as pixel size goes there is no real limit"

KB is more specific "50k has always been a good target for a still image, but anything up to 100KB is acceptable. Likewise, animated gifs should be kept as small as possible, but never exceed 400 KB"

I could point out that your FAQ anim really could be optimized better ;)
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:24, archived)
# Well I live and learn - I always thought images had to be no bigger than 400 pixels wide
I will have Morph fist-ram a copy of the FAQs down my throat.

Also, I am useless at optimising images so any help you can render would be genuinely appreciated. :)
(I helped save b3ta! Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:29, archived)
# 400 wide is the front page width
(yes bigger will work but it makes the front page look like its set up by a lazy web monkey)

Optimizing, other than finding a good automated tool (I use Animation Shop, a discontinued free gif tool from Jasc, now Corel) try doing things like copying all the static area from one frame across all the others to avoid background noise.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:39, archived)
# Cheers HappyToast....
I am beginning to do that with some of the newer gifs I'm making (learned through trial and error in photoshop).

I've never used any other programs before but I'd love to have an automated tool to do the heavy lifting. At the minute I can't really do anything bigger than 30-50 frames lest the gif becomes unintelligible following optimisation.
(I helped save b3ta! Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:56, archived)
# Ironically though, I don't think there's anything in the FAQ about the physical stupendousness of images
but very big pics can be annoying, it's true
(I helped save b3ta! Photoshop Bitch 2014 edition, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:24, archived)
# It's twue! It's twue! It's twue!
/ac
(I helped save b3ta! RedHouse over yonder, Fri 4 May 2012, 14:52, archived)