Uploading Profile Pics (Tip)

[LargeLeo]

When you're making your forum signature in Paint, Preview, Photoshop or whatever - I strongly suggest to save it as a GIF rather than a JPEG. Why? The JPEG format compresses and decreases the quality of the picture, making it look lower-quality. GIF keeps the picture's quality looking healthier and more professional. Preview (and some other programs) allow you to change the quality level changing the file size, but just to be sure, go with GIF.
Also never upload a picture that is smaller or bigger than the size it is allowed to be.
Change that yourself or the picture will look again compressed or stretched making pixels appear and changing the image's quality.
I am going to add a picture of a Comparison bellow just so that you guys know what I'm talking about.

P.S. If you plan on making a forum signature with a "Blank" background, it is impossible. For an image to be saved with a blank background it must be in .TGA format! So instead what you do, is take someone else's signature as a starting point (like mine) because it already has the background color of the forum post on Newgrounds. Then use that color to make it look as though you have blank sections or just a blank background to your forum signature.

[Xaxrox]

cool kids use .png

[Spirosgod]

The background sucks :(

[EgoistXIV]

.jpg quality depends on the program you save it with. Do MS PAINT and you'll get crap like that. Paint Shop Pro, you're much better but still some speckles. GIMP or Photoshop with the right settings, you get a virtually lossless and perfect looking image to the naked eye.

[dec-1310]

I did my sig with flash, save it as .jpg
I the flash's case, .gifs look like shit.

[LOLZILLA]

At 7/14/09 08:27 AM, Xaxrox wrote: cool kids use .png

Cool kids don't come here then.

[Xaxrox]

At 7/14/09 08:44 AM, LOLZILLA wrote:

At 7/14/09 08:27 AM, Xaxrox wrote: cool kids use .png

Cool kids don't come here then.

Oh right, NG doesn't accept .png, rite. But come on, would it really be that hard for one of the admin guys to implement?

[Shakyjake]

At 7/14/09 08:54 AM, citricsquid wrote: Export at 100% quality with jpeg, idiot.

You read my mind.

I'm assuming this guy used MSPaint as well...

[Xaxrox]

Oh and while I'm not really sure about this, .gifs take up a lot more space than .jpegs, making even simple images exported as .gifs not go through the file size limit.

[LargeLeo]

At 7/14/09 09:00 AM, Shakyjake wrote:

At 7/14/09 08:54 AM, citricsquid wrote: Export at 100% quality with jpeg, idiot.

You read my mind.

I'm assuming this guy used MSPaint as well...

No I don't, but I'm sick of people putting up dumb slopped together pics in JPEG from MS Paint...

[Erty]

.GIF is outdated. NG should update to PNG which was designed to be used on the net.
PNG-24 allows transparent backgrounds with alpha channel.
PNG-8 is like .GIF, but way better compressed.

[UVSoaked]

At 7/14/09 08:31 AM, EgoistXIV wrote: .jpg quality depends on the program you save it with. Do MS PAINT and you'll get crap like that.

Not in Windows 7 Paint, my friend. Although it does cut quality back too, but not as much.

[TheSilverGuitar]

At 7/14/09 08:27 AM, Xaxrox wrote: cool kids use .png

Newgrounds doesn't allow PNG.

[CanadianSnowman]

At 7/14/09 09:29 AM, TheSilverGuitar wrote:

At 7/14/09 08:27 AM, Xaxrox wrote: cool kids use .png

Newgrounds doesn't allow PNG.

That's because it wasn't designed properly.

[Armerad]

I'm not sure what my sigs format is, but it is near lossless to the eye, when done in a high end program.

[UVSoaked]

At 7/14/09 09:29 AM, TheSilverGuitar wrote:

At 7/14/09 08:27 AM, Xaxrox wrote: cool kids use .png

Newgrounds doesn't allow PNG.

Proof that there is no cool kids on NG.

[masterchef56]

At 7/14/09 09:29 AM, TheSilverGuitar wrote:

At 7/14/09 08:27 AM, Xaxrox wrote: cool kids use .png

Newgrounds doesn't allow PNG.

Well there, nobody can...be...cool...on...this....site...

[ragingfred]

just save as a lossless jpg, IE 100% quality.

[Jonners]

They should just let you use .PNGs, they're so much better. No quality loss and not much of a file size change.

[Erty]

At 7/14/09 12:33 PM, Jonners wrote: They should just let you use .PNGs, they're so much better. No quality loss and not much of a file size change.

No quality loss except if you use PNG-8 which is 8-bit.

Thanks Captain Obvious!