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[carlnewboult]

Just wondered what was everyones opinion on how I should best included a graphic file (just for the eye it has no functional purpose). At the moment i have just pasted it in but it increases the size from 1mb to 17mb.

Thank

 

[dent]

Carl I use photshop cs and cut the file down 48pix for an icon and 150 at 14cm for a watermark. to as small as possible save as bmp and use as watermarks or icons. But I am by no means an expert, I am sure there are better ways of doing it. look at the zip to see some of my images.

 

[reclusivemonkey]

Erm, try making the graphic smaller? What format is it in(PNG/GIF/JPEG/TIFF)? What physical size is it? The increase in size of your DB doesn't seem to justify the eye candy IMHO.

 

[Big2]

Obvious its the file type, unless he has the image occuring like 5,000 times throughout the database application.

 

[reclusivemonkey]

BMP is not the best format. JPEG or GIF will give you a smaller file. The amount of colours in the picture will dictate whether to use JPEG/GIF. JPEG is used for many colours (i.e. photos) and GIF is used for few colours (clip art/logos).