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<blockquote data-quote="jsewell" data-source="post: 2494010" data-attributes="member: 25359"><p>I agree that the comic is terribly slow in color.&nbsp; I had to wait several seconds for it to load, and I have a 10Mbps connection... I can't imagine the unluckly ones with dial-up.&nbsp; I think alot of this comes from your server.&nbsp; I disagree as to how to solve the problem.&nbsp; I grabbed a panel and did some quick work with photoshop.&nbsp; The panel I grabbed was 1.08MB.&nbsp; I made one change in photoshop; I changed the color mode from 'RGB' to 'Indexed' with 256 colors, and the image size was reduced to 424KB.&nbsp; If you use Fireworks, Image Ready, or a similar program, you could reduce the file size even more.&nbsp; Just index the colors you used to create the image - this is why the PNG format was designed.&nbsp; It won't affect whether or not one can see the image or not, just reduce the load time.&nbsp; I also saved the image as a JPG file.&nbsp; Although the file was only 235KB (medium compression), the wording was slightly blurry.&nbsp; The indexed PNG file looks identical to the original.&nbsp; That said, I like black and white comics better than color ones.&nbsp; If you do decide to keep it in color, also keep in mind a suggestion someone else made - don't put a green goblin in front of a green background.&nbsp; I haven't read the comic yet <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid&nbsp; &nbsp; :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> , so I'm only offering advice about the image itself. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="jsewell, post: 2494010, member: 25359"] I agree that the comic is terribly slow in color. I had to wait several seconds for it to load, and I have a 10Mbps connection... I can't imagine the unluckly ones with dial-up. I think alot of this comes from your server. I disagree as to how to solve the problem. I grabbed a panel and did some quick work with photoshop. The panel I grabbed was 1.08MB. I made one change in photoshop; I changed the color mode from 'RGB' to 'Indexed' with 256 colors, and the image size was reduced to 424KB. If you use Fireworks, Image Ready, or a similar program, you could reduce the file size even more. Just index the colors you used to create the image - this is why the PNG format was designed. It won't affect whether or not one can see the image or not, just reduce the load time. I also saved the image as a JPG file. Although the file was only 235KB (medium compression), the wording was slightly blurry. The indexed PNG file looks identical to the original. That said, I like black and white comics better than color ones. If you do decide to keep it in color, also keep in mind a suggestion someone else made - don't put a green goblin in front of a green background. I haven't read the comic yet :uhoh: , so I'm only offering advice about the image itself. :) [/QUOTE]

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