Okay, found out two things today that I know will be helpful for fanartists. If you don't use photobucket, the second one doesn't apply to you but the first one does
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I did the opt out for my journal a long time ago already. There was something similar happening back then; I don't remember exactly. Now, I did it for the graphics journal as well. Better to be safe.
And PB? They annoy me already anyway. But this is so not cool. I make my icons in .png anyway. Now that I think about it, I read something recently. Someone said that whenever a .jpg is saved/downloaded it loses quality. I don't know, though, if that's a PB thing or in general. I don't really want to save my wallpapers in .png and my photos are in .jpg anyway. That would be a whole lot of trouble and time to change. Time that I don't want to spend on it.
Hi. I hope I'm not breaking the mysterious rules of LJ etiquette by replying to this five-day-old post.
Nothing loses quality in download, unless you have a stone age ISP which compresses images smaller before sending them to you (usually to make dial-up "faster"). Even then, it's not technically happening in download. If you save a .jpg by just saving the file in your browser or download program, you should get exactly, bit for bit, the file that's on the server.
If you paste a .jpg into an image editor and resave, that applies .jpg's lossy compression to it all over again. The image loses quality each time that's done to it, because each time it starts from what's left of the image after the last time. If Photobucket tampers with the compression, that does the same thing.
So if you keep avoiding photobucket, your .jpgs should be fine as long as you're not planning to edit and resave them later.
I am in the same boat as you. I have over a thousand icons in .jpg and I don't want to resave them and reupload them. It would take me for the rest of my life.
Now I'm saving them to .png and looking around for a new place to host things. I might just end up paying for some webspace and just use it solely for icons. Such a pain in the ass. Or maybe just make myself a coppermine account or something. I don't know. I'm just so mad still.
For icons it's commonly said in most icon comminities I'm a member of that saving in .png is the thing you should do. Especially quality-wise. They aren't that much bigger in size, I'd say.
I did the opt out for my journal a long time ago already. There was something similar happening back then; I don't remember exactly. Now, I did it for the graphics journal as well. Better to be safe.
And PB? They annoy me already anyway. But this is so not cool. I make my icons in .png anyway. Now that I think about it, I read something recently. Someone said that whenever a .jpg is saved/downloaded it loses quality. I don't know, though, if that's a PB thing or in general.
I don't really want to save my wallpapers in .png and my photos are in .jpg anyway. That would be a whole lot of trouble and time to change. Time that I don't want to spend on it.
Thanks for the info. :)
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Nothing loses quality in download, unless you have a stone age ISP which compresses images smaller before sending them to you (usually to make dial-up "faster"). Even then, it's not technically happening in download. If you save a .jpg by just saving the file in your browser or download program, you should get exactly, bit for bit, the file that's on the server.
If you paste a .jpg into an image editor and resave, that applies .jpg's lossy compression to it all over again. The image loses quality each time that's done to it, because each time it starts from what's left of the image after the last time. If Photobucket tampers with the compression, that does the same thing.
So if you keep avoiding photobucket, your .jpgs should be fine as long as you're not planning to edit and resave them later.
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Now I'm saving them to .png and looking around for a new place to host things. I might just end up paying for some webspace and just use it solely for icons. Such a pain in the ass. Or maybe just make myself a coppermine account or something. I don't know. I'm just so mad still.
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