File spoon-archives/surrealist.archive/surrealist_1996/96-06-11.135, message 108


Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 21:35:28 -0400
From: Michael Betancourt <mwb2-AT-mosquito.com>
Subject: Re: pictures at the exhibition


>> The individual image maps (I doubt) would most likely be in the area of 100k
>> each, so we're not really talking about much disk space for these; it's the
>> artworks themselves that'll be taking up the most space, escecially when the
>> number gets about 100, even if each is only around 100k. (This equals about
>> 10 meg without any text or anything else.)
>
>It should be possible, with some manipulation of the file format, color
>tables, etc. to reduce these sizes to about 25-50K per image.

Yes, I know this; however, it's important to remember that we're talking
about artwork here, which is to say something other than the average
web-fare. This means that we need to be careful with how we do this...
retaining a high-level of image quality is essential. That's why I neglected
that.

-- Michael Betancourt
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