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Prolific poster 4,030 posts Dave K skiloff Prolific poster 4,030 posts
Dave K skiloff

I'm getting to the point where I'll be posting my preliminary design of my layout, but I'm wondering how best to get it into a small graphic file.  The only option I see is to export it to a bitmap file, which are huge.  I tried to take that into my graphics program (Paint Shop Pro) and export it to a reasonably sized .jpg, but the quality went in the toilet.  I don't remember having this problem before, but perhaps its that I haven't designed one this large before, so I never had to shrink it.  I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but any suggestions? 

Dave
Playing around in HO and N scale since 1976
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BlueHillsCPR
BlueHillsCPR

What I do

I export the bitmap at 7.000 dpi giving me a 2.5MB bitmap file.  I use an image program to convert it to a jpg at around 750-850KB.  I don't change the size of the image itself but when I post it here I make the posted image smaller and link it to the original image.  That's all I do.  If your plan is a lot bigger amybe that is all it is?
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KnuT Super User 386 posts
KnuT

PNG might be better

The PNG format might be better for trackplans and makes much files that are smaller.

KnuT

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BlueHillsCPR
BlueHillsCPR

PNG

No doubt about it.  I could see the improvement in quality when  I used png instead of jpg. 

And the file size!

Thanks for the tip!
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