My major new Hershey purchase
04-22-2002, 03:57 PM
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My major new Hershey purchase
Here is a pic of my 1991 S2 Cabriolet with the new 996 wheels and Michelin Pilot SX's on it. I just got them at the Hershey Swap meet. Thanks to TomH for helping me get them back to Annapolis and putting them on. He also took the pic.
Regards, Max
p.s.- I had to shrink the pic so it lost a lot of resolution.
Regards, Max
p.s.- I had to shrink the pic so it lost a lot of resolution.
04-22-2002, 04:54 PM
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Just a tip, you can gain some resolution back, and still make the 80k limit by reducing the color from 16/32-bit to 256 color.
A great freeware/opensource image utility is called "The Gimp". It works great, very powerful, and best of all...free.
A great freeware/opensource image utility is called "The Gimp". It works great, very powerful, and best of all...free.
04-22-2002, 07:01 PM
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Make sure that whenever you shrink an image, you have antialiasing turned on (blurriness). It gets rid of those horrendous jaggies. Photoshop/ImageReady really are dynamite for putting out well-optimized jpegs.
I'm assuming you don't have Photoshop, though...I wish I could point you towards a free program (maybe try ArsTechnica.com forum, Software Colloqueum), but I've already got Photoshop.
I'm assuming you don't have Photoshop, though...I wish I could point you towards a free program (maybe try ArsTechnica.com forum, Software Colloqueum), but I've already got Photoshop.
04-22-2002, 08:28 PM
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PaintShop Pro is a pretty good shareware program. What you need is 'bicubic interpolation' when doing re-sizing of images. It is more precise and eliminates the jagginess you see above.
JPEG compression gives the best quality for any certain file size. Unfortunately, it will create larger files using 256-color (8-bit) images than if you left it in native tru-color (24/32-bit). The secret is in adjusting the compression vs. quality setting when you save the file.
With very high-quality setting of 73, you can still squeeze under the 180k file-size limit (that's film-grain in the sky, not compression artifacts):
Increasing the compression to a quality-setting of 54 will crunch the file down to 80k, yet still give a very good image:
Finally, resizing an image to be smaller like 7x3.5"@72dpi (500x250 pixels) along with even higher-compression/lower-quality setting of 31 yields a decent photo at only 15k!
JPEG compression gives the best quality for any certain file size. Unfortunately, it will create larger files using 256-color (8-bit) images than if you left it in native tru-color (24/32-bit). The secret is in adjusting the compression vs. quality setting when you save the file.
With very high-quality setting of 73, you can still squeeze under the 180k file-size limit (that's film-grain in the sky, not compression artifacts):
Increasing the compression to a quality-setting of 54 will crunch the file down to 80k, yet still give a very good image:
Finally, resizing an image to be smaller like 7x3.5"@72dpi (500x250 pixels) along with even higher-compression/lower-quality setting of 31 yields a decent photo at only 15k!
04-22-2002, 11:54 PM
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hey danno is that 944 turbo front nose vent a fiberglass piece or not? is it the same as paul bloombergs? i am trying to make mine like them, 2 rectangular openings instead of oval at the edges, any info on this red 944 car?
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04-24-2002, 11:13 PM
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That is the Performance Products one. Same as I have. Read this post before you buy.
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