Not sure if this is the appropriate forum, but this seems to be the best place for purely technical questions like this:
In your opinion, how big (in filesize) can your pages be before you start to frustrate the hell out of dial-up users?
When I first started out, my pages were just under 300K jpegs. Way too big! I've gotten it down to between 150 and 200K lately, which is an improvement but I'm still not sure if it loads reasonably fast enough to keep readers from getting frustrated.
I tried saving the pages as .gifs, which allows me to make them a tad smaller, but they tend to acquire a jagged quality that I really don't like. Furthermore, I can't seem to make the files much smaller before they start looking icky.
By the way, my comic is completely black and white. People with color comics have told me that they can get their comics to like 80-100K range, so there's got to be something I'm missing. I could always compress the Jpegs more, but if I try to go under 150K, they start to look awful.
Now is there some ingenious way to compress images while maintaining quality that I don't know about, or is this file size acceptable so I should stop worrying about it?? I'm on dial-up, so I see that there is indeed some loading time, however I can't be objective about how long is too long- it is, after all, MY comic, of course I would wait for it!
In your opinion, how big (in filesize) can your pages be before you start to frustrate the hell out of dial-up users?
When I first started out, my pages were just under 300K jpegs. Way too big! I've gotten it down to between 150 and 200K lately, which is an improvement but I'm still not sure if it loads reasonably fast enough to keep readers from getting frustrated.
I tried saving the pages as .gifs, which allows me to make them a tad smaller, but they tend to acquire a jagged quality that I really don't like. Furthermore, I can't seem to make the files much smaller before they start looking icky.
By the way, my comic is completely black and white. People with color comics have told me that they can get their comics to like 80-100K range, so there's got to be something I'm missing. I could always compress the Jpegs more, but if I try to go under 150K, they start to look awful.
Now is there some ingenious way to compress images while maintaining quality that I don't know about, or is this file size acceptable so I should stop worrying about it?? I'm on dial-up, so I see that there is indeed some loading time, however I can't be objective about how long is too long- it is, after all, MY comic, of course I would wait for it!
