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Here are a few tips:
Compression Guide
If your saving as a JPG you can drop your compression rate to about 70-80% before you start to see any differences in image quality. JPG focusses on the non-visible aspects of an image, so you can compress it so far before it starts to focus on the visible aspects of the image.
Do not fear GIF! If you don't have too many colours in your image, you can save it as a GIF. GIFs can handle small amounts of colour better than a JPG and if you have small amounts of colour, a GIF opten results in a lower filesize.
- Try to avoid white backgrounds as much as possible. Why? because heaps of people use XP and it is near impossible to read the icon text on a white background. You can't change this either.
- 1024x768 is the probably the most common size. It pays to have a 1280x1024 version available for those with a bigger monitor.
- Compression helps. People on slow connections like 56K don't like to wait for 1mb uncompressed files to download. I've provided a compression guide below.
- Save your wallpaper as JPGs and not BMPs. Why? BMPs can be up to 1mb+ in filesize, and this slows down system performance if you are using that 1mb BMP as your wallpaper.
- Put some effort in to your work. Put some detail into your wallpaper. You will get many thumbsup for an impressive piece of work.
- Filter Junkies suck! Be original and use tools like the airbrush. Photoshop was created for more than Filters.
Compression Guide
If your saving as a JPG you can drop your compression rate to about 70-80% before you start to see any differences in image quality. JPG focusses on the non-visible aspects of an image, so you can compress it so far before it starts to focus on the visible aspects of the image.
Do not fear GIF! If you don't have too many colours in your image, you can save it as a GIF. GIFs can handle small amounts of colour better than a JPG and if you have small amounts of colour, a GIF opten results in a lower filesize.
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