Rule. Pics file size under 100kb.

[Jeremy]

Jeka: That's about the long and the short of it. Not everyone has super-quick, high-speed broadband. Oddly, they'll wait if they're paying for it, but not if it's free.

AWMJ: Learn how to use a thumbnailing program and increase your selling opportunities to every surfer.

[AWMJ]

Originally Posted by Jeremy

AWMJ: Learn how to use a thumbnailing program and increase your selling opportunities to every surfer.

Who said that I don't know how to use thumbnailing programs?

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I was a cunt hair nervous when the original post made it sound like the pics had to be 1200px on the long side (phew), but otherwise - I'm not seeing a problem here. You shouldn't be pushing the lower size pics anyway. He or she with the better samples is going to sell more porn. Keep shoving those 500px wide pixelated pieces of shit in front of your surfers and wonder why they're not buying. Good samples will sell the site better than constantly repeating "I know my samples suck, but if you join you'll get nicer shots.

I am not trying to tell you that 500 Kb for pics are ok. I am trying to tell you that 100 Kb rule for pics are uncommon in our days.
Personally for me 150 Kb pictures are more that enough, they have good quality and dimension.

And why I should try to sell 80 Kb pictures to someone when he will get in members area pics more than 80K?

[Useless]

Thanks for pulling me into a thread that I had zero intention of entering. This shit gets discussed over and over and over (and over) again. Optimize your fucking pics. This is a no whine zone.

My quote post above was referring to pic size, not weight. You can produce larger pics with relatively low weight while maintaining visual clarity with simple optimization.

[Jeremy]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

You can produce larger pics with relatively low weight while maintaining visual clarity with simple optimization.

Careful UW. More comments like that and people will think you should be called Useful ;-))

[WarBot]

I havent had any problems keeping the pics around 80kb at 700-740 on the long side yet. But I know I have a few sets where I probably will. Mostly the outdoor stuff, the dark background with alot of colors stuff, and a few others. The new 1200 rule and the old 80kb rule did force me to figure out that I dont need to sharpen the larger pics and saving them at 75 or 80% they still come out looking pretty good (IMO). I use thumbs plus for everything by the way.

* Useful Warrior haha, good one

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by WarBot

...I dont need to sharpen the larger pics and saving them at 75 or 80% they still come out looking pretty good (IMO). I use thumbs plus for everything by the way.

If you use photoshop to render your optimization you can go as low as 50% for most pics.

Other programs make pixelation look rainbow colored for some reason.