What is the best format for pictures?

[megamania]

I have this crazy idea of doing a story hour comicstrip like that found in the national papers. When i go to scan these, what should I save them as for the easiest and fastest way to post here at EN World?

I have a decent scanner and a few programs. I have however a sucky modem system that uses 1960's wires.

Any thoughts? JPEG? other?

If color will be a huge factor I can avoid adding color. I would however prefer to have color. If only for the "Sunday" 'toon.

Thankyou megamania aka Andy

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I know I prefer JPEG format for my stuff, at least.

Story Hour Comics strip, eh? I've thought about doing that for mine...if you do it, I'll definitely check it out.

 

[Ferret]

Jpeg is good, If you want super-dooper-ultra-amazo quality go for .tiff, but they are much larger. If you want some transparity you need to use .gifs.

Short answer? .Jpeg

 

[Acquana]

Longer answer, do you have Photoshop? Photoshop has the option 'save for web' which will tell you how big your images will get if you save them at web resolution. For my thread I've been trying to get each one under 22kb, but for sketches like those I'm not too concerned about how great they look ... It's all up to you, but for just pure black and white (not greyscale) .gif actually works pretty well. For anything else, .jpg will be smaller but more 'pixely.'

 

[megamania]

Going between "newspaper" strip or comicbook style. Without checking for typos here is the strip format but on an 81/2 by 11 sheet in JPEG.


crosses fingers

 

[megamania]

5 minutes passed and still upload. Image must be too big. But I have seen images MUCH larger on screen. Why is this?

 

[megamania]

Acquana- nice work. I checked out your thread.

 

[megamania]

Well, so far this is very frustrating.

Choises I have are

PSF not supported
JPEG
BMP
TIF not supported
PNG
TGA not supported
FPX not supported

So its-
JPEG
BMP
PNG

 

[megamania]

In JPEG the original image was 4560 x 6064 I guess too big sigh don't know why


a "1" day strip is 4224 x 1568. Let's try that as JPEG

crooses fingers ...again



DAMN DAMN DAMN

 

[megamania]

My computer doesn't like this-


OKAY!


I am prepared to give up now. According to the system, my 2 1/2 x 7 inch image is 515 big which is STILL over twice the allowed size. I have seen images here that takes 4 pages to print.

WHY?

MODERATORS- WHY?!?