I have a website which is in need of decent pictures - if I use pictures in Flash though it slows it down about five times as much. Can anyone recommend a way of getting about 50 quality pictures, compressed or uncompressed in under about 400kb? Does that even exist? Is it possible to reduce the picture quality on Flash, so the pictures still look good, but don't use up nearly as much space?
Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations derfloh on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Picture Compression
- Thread starter Dannybe2
- Start date
- Thread starter
- #3
Yeah, I have photoshop - my photos are mainly in BMP, but some in JPEG. I can convert them all to JPEG if necessary. With pictures, (and sounds) my site is 1.2MB (swf), and without, its 0.26MB. I have about 50 pictures, you do the maths! I need the pictures, but I also need the site to load quicker. It's currently on the net without them - Thanks
No it isn't! At least, for the time being, on this side of the Atlantic!
No you do the maths!
When I grabbed this picture from virt's site, it was 2.25MB in .bmp format. Turns out to be 156KB converted, with no real apparent lost of quality in this case, to a .gif.
Using mp3s rather than wavs might help in the same way.
Lastly, if you don't need everything up at the start, just have some sections load only when needed. This way you'll get a faster initial load!
Regards,
François Gill
;-)
"Jugglin' for stars!"
No you do the maths!
When I grabbed this picture from virt's site, it was 2.25MB in .bmp format. Turns out to be 156KB converted, with no real apparent lost of quality in this case, to a .gif.
Using mp3s rather than wavs might help in the same way.
Lastly, if you don't need everything up at the start, just have some sections load only when needed. This way you'll get a faster initial load!
Regards,
François Gill
;-)
"Jugglin' for stars!"
- Thread starter
- #6
- Thread starter
- #7
hi again Danny
You can mix and match flash and HTML embedded graphics as much as you like. And if you want a graphic(s) to load only on the hit of a button that's easy accomplished by putting all your graphics in another movie with the relevant stop actions, then using a loadmovie action on the press of your button.
>>>Scenes>>> It doesn't matter how many scenes you have, the movie will load in its entirity. However, because flash will 'stream' you may find that by the time the movie reaches the scene you want, it will have by that point loaded. It's an argumentative issue. My opinion is that if your really lumping the hay on the camels back, then split the hay into bails and load the bails on one at a time. Put them all on at the same time and the camel will keel over and lose interest in any concept of travel you have, just like a user!
dave
dave@davdesign.co.uk
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You can mix and match flash and HTML embedded graphics as much as you like. And if you want a graphic(s) to load only on the hit of a button that's easy accomplished by putting all your graphics in another movie with the relevant stop actions, then using a loadmovie action on the press of your button.
>>>Scenes>>> It doesn't matter how many scenes you have, the movie will load in its entirity. However, because flash will 'stream' you may find that by the time the movie reaches the scene you want, it will have by that point loaded. It's an argumentative issue. My opinion is that if your really lumping the hay on the camels back, then split the hay into bails and load the bails on one at a time. Put them all on at the same time and the camel will keel over and lose interest in any concept of travel you have, just like a user!
dave
dave@davdesign.co.uk
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Status