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[euterpeslullaby]

I've made a new layout for the community, including quick links to some important posts, and links to certain sections of the memories so they're easier to browse. Also, there's now a "Coming up..." section, which can tell you what the next 5 mood themes coming up will be. I can't guarantee that they will stay in that order, but I'm going to try to

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[plasterromance]

the layout is gorgeous !!
&&really informative.
wonderful job.

[notashamed]

Just wanted you to know I read through this and it's really good. i've made about 5 moodthemes and we agree lots of stuff so i couldn't help but agree :)

[xcacophony]

I have a sudden random question.

You save your mood themes as .jpg files. Do you just save these as .jpg in Photoshop, or do you use something else? I only ask because I tried saving my themes as .jpg and when I uploaded them onto my webspace, there was a conciderable difference in quality. Your themes don't seem to have that problem.

[euterpeslullaby]

The reason why your jpegs were saved at such low quality is because most programs automatically "optimize" jpegs when saved. This means they lower the quality so that your images will load faster. If you're using Photoshop, there's an easy way to stop your program from optimizing your images.

When you have your image that you want to save, go to save it as you normally would. Select JPEG under the drop down, and then click save. When then JPEG Options window comes up, just move the bar under "Quality" so that it's closer to the right. The closer you go, the higher the quality goes. I usually save my themes at maximum quality, but anything over 10 usually works. If you keep the "preview" box checked, then you can see what it works like before it saved. Press "OK", and you're done.

[xcacophony]

Thank you!

[xmonalisa]

This was SO helpful. Thank you for sharing! :)