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Picture Compression

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Dannybe2

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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?
 
I guess it depends on a lot of things!
Size of pictures?
Size of your movie?
In what format are your pictures? BMP? JPG?
Do you have photoshop?


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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

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How do I get only part of the site to load at first? Use scenes? Can I get it so the pictures only load when you open the page, or can I add html code to a box, and embed the pictures using src, so that the box loads from another website?
 
Your best bet is to convert your images to JPG format making sure to compress them in a program other than Flash. Studies have shown that Macromedia's Fireworks does the best job of compressing JPG files.
 
FIREWORKS>>>>>>>>>> wrong dave@davdesign.co.uk

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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

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