omicron arena

I have done my size testing and have decided on a resize method and format to use. Not that it matters to most (if any of you), bit I will be running the following command on the files:

convert -scale 2048x2048 $image.jpg $newimage.jpg

The size different this gives me is pretty significant. In my testing it took a file that was 2.44 MB down to 693 KB, down by a factor of around 3.5, numbers I am sure even a non-techie can appreciate. Then I realized, how many people are looking at these images at such a high resolution? Most don’t even own a monitor that can go that high! So a more reasonable size is, well, reasonable right?

convert -scale 1024x1024 $image.jpg $newimage.jpg

This yeilded a file size of 221 KB. A reduction note to a factor of 10! Now we are cooking with binary…

I am going to set things up to convert all the images locally tonight. I should be able to start uploading tomorrow. So, the gallery should speed up drastically in the next few days.