Is it just me or is Background Supersizer not friendly towards placing transparent png images on top?
Specifically - I have a logo I’m trying to drop on top of the BG and it always results in having white jagged edges around it - be it a PSD, PNG - regardless of the source or size… The exact same pngs on a solid color background do not have this issue.
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Those images you place on top of it … are those boxes they layered?
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Thanks, yes - they are layers. Since then I’ve still been playing with it and it’s starting to look like it has something to do with the resizing of text graphics.
For now I’ve dropped the logo and gone with html text and a matching CSS menu. This is just for a splash page that’s primarily about the BG images - so no great loss.
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Are your Freeway Pro png images settings at millions? Have you tried
bringing it in as a pass-thru .png image?
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On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Karen E email@hidden wrote:
Thanks, yes - they are layers. Since then I’ve still been playing with it
and it’s starting to look like it has something to do with the resizing of
text graphics.For now I’ve dropped the logo and gone with html text and a matching CSS
menu. This is just for a splash page that’s primarily about the BG images
- so no great loss.
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Thanks Ernie - After a lot of file size manipulation/shrinking in Photoshop I finally got it working satisfactorily with pass-through - which needed the check-box to be on during import. doh
The BG images are another issue - it looks great on the desktop using (9) 3-5mb+ image files, but on upload - it chokes the bandwidth and takes forever to load. Shrinking everything to 800px (roughly 300K/file) works better, but it’s not pretty in a large window (27" monitor).
Current working example - http://www.karenengelphotography.com/
This splash redirects traffic away from an old Flash one (linked)
I also found a BGSS bug on Android - when in portrait, the images shrink in width to fit, but height grows. It works well on iPad.
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Shrinking everything to 800px (roughly 300K/file) works better, but it’s not pretty in a large window (27” monitor).
Instead try keeping your image at a reasonable size 1200-1400px and increase the jpeg compression to reduce the file size
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Thanks David - good idea, I replaced them with 1200px @jpg8 compression - and it is better - not perfect - but better. I’ll keep playing with that approach and see if I can optimize the settings.
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For my purposes, I keep my background images at 1600px and use Photoshops’
Save for Devices feature, targeting a compressed size range of 150k to
170k.
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On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Karen E email@hidden wrote:
Thanks David - good idea, I replaced them with 1200px @jpg8 compression -
and it is better - not perfect - but better. I’ll keep playing with that
approach and see if I can optimize the settings.
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Your current 1400px versions look fine on my 27" but I would be tempted to compress them a bit more.
Nobody is going to be as critical about these as you and most will have inferior monitors.
There is always some trade off between load speed and quality and a slow load speed will lose visitors quicker.
D
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Which is why I build websites completely with my imagination… no text or
graphics to slow it down.
Unless their imagination is slow-loading and they get bored… which happens
more often than I would have imagined. Back to the drawing board.
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On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:49 PM, DeltaDave email@hidden wrote:
Your current 1400px versions look fine on my 27" but I would be tempted to
compress them a bit more.Nobody is going to be as critical about these as you and most will have
inferior monitors.There is always some trade off between load speed and quality and a slow
load speed will lose visitors quicker.D
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