An image post

[pebblerocker]

In the wake of the Great Photobucket Apocalypse of 2017, and after every other image host on the planet has already forbidden image hosting, I'm going to try out Dreamwidth's new image hosting. Here is a picture of a dragon I drew for my niece.



I currently have no job. Since being too busy at work and being drained after work has ruined my chances of doing NaArMaMo most recent years, perhaps I will do better at making art for a month this time around. On the other hand, it turns out that all my self-worth is in being able to work and so I have been mainly feeling miserable instead of doing amazing things with my new free time.

Comments

[feng_shui_house]

*HUGGLES* Your dragon is lovely.

I just found a free site that might be usable for the purposes of Naarmamo- it's not meant for image STORING, but for linking to forums- It looks like you don't need to get an account, just upload your images and get 'permanent links for Facebook, Twitter, message boards and blogs.'

http://postimages.org
http://postimages.org/terms

If you want to keep using DW but are afraid you'll run out of space, you can reduce the file size- I copied your dragon to check it out-it's 664kb. A black & white line drawing could be much smaller and still *look* the same on a webpage, so I'm guessing you don't have any programs to do file size reduction.

BUT! If you google 'online image file size reduction' you'll find quite a few free sites that promise to do it for you.

[pebblerocker]

Now that sounds useful! I wonder what they really mean by "permanent"... I don't trust any site to stay around any more.

I can resize files but I have no idea what size to make them! I have a different monitor to the one I used when I started scanning my art, and now all my old pictures look very very small on my new monitor at about 800 pixels wide, but I don't know what is a good size these days and I know you can't make them bigger again once they're shrunk. I already made the dragon a bit smaller, keeping a copy at the original resolution. There's also an image quality setting when I go to save it and I do drop that one below 95% when uploading less important screenshots to a game forum, but again I don't know if I'll regret lowering the quality later.

[feng_shui_house]

Nothing on the internet is truly permanent- I expect what they mean is that it's not just a pass-through, but they leave it hosted.

For images meant only for online viewing I resize files at 72 dpi (that's the old standard, the new standard is a bit larger, I think). I usually have them about 10 inches wide.

For viewing an image hardly ever needs to be much more than 200kb- most of the ones I shared over the years were far less than that. Your line drawing dragon I could probably have reduced to 30kb while keeping it the same number of inches visually and not looking much different on screen (it would have been a mess if enlarged and no good for printing, but that's actually a good thing - it makes image theft less profitable.)

[pebblerocker]

Huh. I've had a good wrangle with the image editing program (I'm using paint.net, it's free) and with the scanner, and lowering the dpi either on the original scan or when resizing the image seems to do nothing to the file size. I really don't know what I'm doing here! The only way I can make the file smaller is to shrink it down so that at 100% it takes up less of the screen, or to save it as jpeg and lower the image quality. These are currently in .png format which is what the scanner gives me automatically.

[feng_shui_house]

PNG is a 'non lossy' format, that means it tries to preserve everything in the image, which results in large file sizes.

JPG is a 'lossy' format, which means you can reduce file size by losing detail in the image, but still keep it the same number of viewing inches.

If you can set the scanner to jpg maybe that will help?