Rule. Pics file size under 100kb.

[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.