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Title: Adobe photoshop / image ready / illustrator How do I compress a *.png
Post by: mrclean on July 23, 2007, 05:33:29 pm

Basically I have the software that I'm sure can do this either adobe photoshop/ image ready / illustrator my question is I'm curious as to how I can get my 4000x4000 .png file which is about 17mb down to say 2mb or less? without loosing a noticable difference in picture quality yet retain the files dimensions?

Title: Re: Adobe photoshop / image ready / illustrator How do I compress a *.png
Post by: Joystick Jerk on July 23, 2007, 06:10:31 pm

First, why the hell are you using PNG format? If I can assume this piece of art is for your cab, PNG is just about the last format you should be using. AND, if this a high quality piece of art for your cab, at 300dpi, 17mb isn't particularly large for an image in Photoshop. One of my marquee layers alone topped out at 250mb.

Title: Re: Adobe photoshop / image ready / illustrator How do I compress a *.png
Post by: mrclean on July 23, 2007, 06:37:25 pm

actually its a bezel to use within mame

Title: Re: Adobe photoshop / image ready / illustrator How do I compress a *.png
Post by: Zero_Hour on July 24, 2007, 12:12:11 am

Quote from: mrclean on July 23, 2007, 06:37:25 pm

actually its a bezel to use within mame

4000 x 4000 to use within MAME software? As in the Artwork feature?

Just looked at some of the artwork files I have. I never realized they were done at such high resolutions...

Anyway, In Photoshop, use the "Save For Web" option from the file menu, and choose PNG-24. This should bring the file size to a more manageable range, and keep the quality.

Title: Re: Adobe photoshop / image ready / illustrator How do I compress a *.png
Post by: gbeef on August 01, 2007, 08:55:32 pm

why do you need it at 2mb? i would keep it at 17mb... for print.