Hey. I have the following image which is 258KB
but then I resized the image to 660x660px (which is smaller than the original. but the file size is 462KB.
What is going on?
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What software did you use?
I used paint dot net 32bit depth, super sampling. I think I should’ve used auto bit depth?
I think png is not the optimal format for this. There is quite a bit of noise in the file and coupled with the transparency … that is hard to scale down anyway. PNG is designed to be visually lossless which means unless you really lose a lot of the image itself any new export will be less efficient.
We do need a new standard image format that combines JPEG quality scaling with transparency…
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I tend to save everything as an png or a raw. I don’t like how muddy jpegs become.
I see. The luxurious memers will accept only the finest quality art into their collection.
I got it smaller by fiddling with some settings, basically denoising first and then reducing color palette to 256.
Well making the image small enough for 256KB limits also works.
Does Paint.NET have an export setting to choose the level of lossless compression? If not, you could try re-exporting both PNGs with GIMP, specifying the same compression level, and see if there is still strangeness.
My guess is that the second image has a lower compression level than the first; apologies if you already tested this.
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It is too much of a hassle and that probably is that. But I think it could be that I used a higher bitrate on the smaller image.
It’s like a puzzle sometimes! If your images are playing hard to get smaller, consider peeking at the bitrate on the smaller ones – a subtle adjustment might do the trick!