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#1  Edited By TheGamerGeek

Lower the KB of Screenshots that I take with FRAPS,so I can upload it to Giantbomb quicker?

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#2  Edited By twenty0ne

What's FRAPS?

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#3  Edited By TheGamerGeek
twenty0ne said:
"What's FRAPS?"
A site that allows you to make video's and images of your PC games.
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#4  Edited By DualReaver

Do you have them saving as JPGs?
Those shouldn't be too big even at higher resolutions.

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#5  Edited By TheGamerGeek
DualReaver said:
"Do you have them saving as JPGs?
Those shouldn't be too big even at higher resolutions."
No,I'm doing the Free version so I can't change it to JPG's
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Open them with IrfanView (free software) and save as a JPG - you can set the quality too to reduce filesize. It's very compact and no annoying advertisements in it.

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#7  Edited By and333

Don't lower the quality cause it.....lowers the quality......yeah. Its better to take longer time with higher quality then less time with low quality!

Also just save the file and open it in gimp or irfranview like L said and lower the resolution, but def not the quality by alot!

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#8  Edited By TheGamerGeek
L said:
"Open them with IrfanView (free software) and save as a JPG - you can set the quality too to reduce filesize. It's very compact and no annoying advertisements in it."

and333 said:
"Don't lower the quality cause it.....lowers the quality......yeah. Its better to take longer time with higher quality then less time with low quality!

Also just save the file and open it in gimp or irfranview like L said and lower the resolution, but def not the quality by alot!"
K thanks to both of you guy's.
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#9  Edited By and333
TheGamerGeek said:
"L said:
"Open them with IrfanView (free software) and save as a JPG - you can set the quality too to reduce filesize. It's very compact and no annoying advertisements in it."

and333 said:
"Don't lower the quality cause it.....lowers the quality......yeah. Its better to take longer time with higher quality then less time with low quality!

Also just save the file and open it in gimp or irfranview like L said and lower the resolution, but def not the quality by alot!"
K thanks to both of you guy's."
Also save images as png because the compression is great but it still retains all the quality.
edit never mind that actually I did some test with saving in different qualitys and if your switching from a jpg to a png it'll just increase the file size but of course not improve the image quality.
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#10  Edited By Schizoid
and333 said:
"TheGamerGeek said:
"L said:
"Open them with IrfanView (free software) and save as a JPG - you can set the quality too to reduce filesize. It's very compact and no annoying advertisements in it."

and333 said:
"Don't lower the quality cause it.....lowers the quality......yeah. Its better to take longer time with higher quality then less time with low quality!

Also just save the file and open it in gimp or irfranview like L said and lower the resolution, but def not the quality by alot!"
K thanks to both of you guy's."
Also save images as png because the compression is great but it still retains all the quality.
edit never mind that actually I did some test with saving in different qualitys and if your switching from a jpg to a png it'll just increase the file size but of course not improve the image quality."
If you want transparency and flawless quality then PNG is the way to go but with game screenshots it's better to save as JPG due to the smaller file sizes.