Design Challenge #1 - March 2012 (a little early)

[frogfish]

Originally Posted by kaylalovesminnie

My part is completely done and ready, BUT there is absolutely no way it's going to be 10 MB. I'm using winRAR to zip it, but it's still at around 30 MB! Eeesh, and I still haven't even put in a TOU! Does anyone possibly know how I can adjust it to compress it further?

Originally Posted by Cindyrelly

I'm kinda wondering the same thing about the 10M? How do you do that and not sacrifice quality? Hmmmmmm....

That limit may be something we have to play with a little...

The concern is that this collab could be massive (which is good ) and we don't want to bog anything down with lots of really big individual contributions.

As far as what you can do to limit size: First make sure the individual elements aren't too big (it's not necessary to have 6x6 inch flowers for example). Think about the size you would want them to be in one of your layouts. Second, when saving the files in your original program, look for a compression option. When I save a jpg in photoshop, right after hitting the OK button in the save menu, it asks me about the compression (on a scale of 1-10). Third, as Kayla said, zip the folder by right clicking on it and selecting the compress option.

If your folder is still huge, send me a pm with the link and I'll look at it. If I can't compress it any further without losing quality they we may have to make an exception or change the limit. I don't want to sacrifice quality just to stay within the 10MB limit.