Comments on: Saving as a PNG

By: progste

progste — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:25:34 +0000

good, the head of my scanlation group is always getting mad at me for the image’s size XD
now I know how to keep him quiet!

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:32:41 +0000

I’ve been wondering how people get good quality png files with such little file size. I played around a bit with png myself, but could never figure out the right combination of settings to make the file small AND keep it looking good. Learned something new!

By: mek

mek — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:04:30 +0000

thanks your tutor is very cool bitch….

By: chiresakura

chiresakura — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:06:10 +0000

Dithering is basically just a pattern of dots that tries to create the illusion of having more shades of gray. The dot tone in manga printing is a dither. It is most useful if you haven’t used enough shades of gray and there are sharp lines or blotches where there *should* be a gradient of gray. Sometimes, dither can look bad, sometimes it’s not even noticeable, sometimes it can help. By increasing the number of colors in your save, however, you’re fixing the problem using pixel values from your original page and not an artificial dither pattern ;)

By: chiresakura

chiresakura — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:26:53 +0000

No, there aren’t. I’ve been meaning to dig through the various tutorials on sites like MH and then post the ones I think are really useful here, but I just haven’t had the time.

Maybe I’ll make a page where people can suggest or request tutorials, though…

By: photoshop guy

photoshop guy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:17:13 +0000

are there user enteres tutorials as well?

By: graficool

graficool — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:08:10 +0000

hmm, i don’t see any difference between diffusion and no dither.,and diffusion is 0.1kb smaller.,what is the difference between this two anyway?

By: Quira

Quira — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:36:41 +0000

HOLYCRAP thanks for this ? i have no idea how to clean let alone saving settings and stuff… so thanks for this!

By: az060693

az060693 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:22:46 +0000

Some people use PNG Crush, though I don’t know how effective that is, since I’ve never used it. It should be quite effective though, since KEFI used it and they’re releases were only 3-4 mb.

By: chiresakura

chiresakura — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:55:44 +0000

Yeah, I didn’t really even think about final file size until I started making the final saves for M7 a few months ago. It’s a good thing to keep in mind, though, so it’s good you already found out about it. Good luck learning to clean and don’t hesitate to ask any questions ^^