Surely there must be a better way to show our creations.

[TheOtherJN]

Surely there must be a better way to show our creations.

I don't think I'm the only one thinking this, but whenever I go to see another user's creations, it takes a damn long time to load the images, or skim through them because they all have dimensions of 1280x720 or slightly smaller. My internet's not the fastest (and I bet others' aren't), and this is reminding me of 56k warnings back in the day.

I'm planning on uploading my own screenshots, and for that I was wondering if there is a way to upload thumbnails of my pictures that either expand or open in a new window (tab) upon left-clicking it.

Any suggestions?

 

[LordDraco3]

I have not run into this problem myself. People put their images in spoiler tags to avoid trying to load them all at the same time. When I first made my own thread, I didn't know why or how to use them and the post loaded terribly, but with the expandable spoiler tags it's all good.

 

[Norik]

I made a video of mine back on SCIV. I think it's better like that because you get to see them in action.

 

[TheOtherJN]

I made a video of mine back on SCIV. I think it's better like that because you get to see them in action.

That's really neat actually, and I love your editing. Too bad I have no way of recording a video.

But I guess I found the solution I was looking for: normally these screenshots, if taken from the PS3 and uploaded directly to 8WR, would be ~1.25 MB in size.

But by simply taking a screenshot of your screenshot (yo dawg...) and saving it into JPG, you can reduce the size significantly, more-so if you crop parts of the image. Went from 1.25 MB for one image, to 269 KB for 5... There is barely any drop in quality to boot.

Browsing through images should be a helluva lot quicker now.

 

[LordDraco3]

taking a screenshot of your screenshot (yo dawg...)

lol

I get what you're saying, a lot of people do edit their screenshots. I would love to make edits, but I recently lost Photoshop and MS Paint is...well... MS Paint :(
It's still better than what Xbox players have to do, at least.

 

[TheOtherJN]

If we were regarding tool quality between Adobe PS and MS Paint, then there is no contest. But solely for conversion between formats, MS Paint does a respectable job. I'll show you two comparison pictures and see if you any detect any quality changes.

The larger file, or the PNG file, is the original file.

Left: 1.13 MB; Right: 92 KB


Left: 1.20 MB; Right: 108 KB.