A postcard from the final?

Did you make that??

Yes. I had time to kill earlier today.

Thats superb

That is pure quality mate! Seriously!

f**king brilliant! Stick a Shed End logo on it and we'll put it as a wallpaper d/load on the Shed End.

Ah, actually it won't expand to desktop without pixelating.

Still top notch though!

Yeah, the original picture of the Luzhniki stadium wasn't big enough, so it won't scale well. I've got an idea how to (sort of) get around the problem...I'll see what I can do.

Yeah, the original picture of the Luzhniki stadium wasn't big enough, so it won't scale well. I've got an idea how to (sort of) get around the problem...I'll see what I can do.

Try putting it in the middle of a 1024x768 blue background, then give the stadium some external light like you have on the CFC logo. That'll look great i reckon.

Hmmm...I did the wallpaper and I uploaded it into the gallery into the Chelsea in Europe section, but for some reason it doesn't show it in 1024 x 768

Hmmm...apparently it does show it in 1024 x 768, but it compresses the image so it messes up the scanline pattern that I put in the background.

Hang on mate, will set up a Wallpapers and change the size restrictions.

I think it would only be the thumbnail is it?

Try now, the sizes were okay, what's the file size of it?

331 KB

I'll try and upload it into the wallpapers section in the gallery.

Yep okay, it is actually the thumb that shows lines broken, once it's clicked to it's size it looks perfect.

Aha...it's the filesize that's causing the problem. There's a 150 KB limit on uploaded images, it keeps it 1024 x 768, but it compresses the image, so it becomes a 150KB image and it doesn't look nice.

It's not just the thumbnail, it looks different on my computer. Well, as it compresses the filesize by 50%, it's bound to show in the image.

Could you please delete the images, I'll see if I can do the compression better with my photoshop, or if not, then I'll lose the scanline and then compress it into a 150 KB file.

hmm, says max file size per image 12800000

Just added.

Yea, just saw that, superb!

Mod...when I click the properties on the image I uploaded, it says it's 150 KB, so the gallery has compressed the image when I uploaded it. I'll see if I can do the compression more smartly myself, before uploading. But if not, I'll try chucking out the scanline and see if I can get the filesize down to a 150 KB without messing it too much.

Could you please delete the two pictures I uploaded, please!

yep okay. Not sure why its compressing the files

A postcard from the final?

Thats the schizzle.

I tried it again, and the gallery definitely does compress the file when I upload it. I did a more simple version without the scanlines and I compressed it down to 121 KB, which looked passable, although you could see some artifacts in the image resulting from the compression, but when I upload it to the gallery, it says it's under 100 KB(I think it was about 80 KB) and you can see the extra compression in the image. Not nice.

Try again, the only compression settings that could be, are it resizes it to 800 x 600 to view.

I uploaded the images(the simpler version and the original) under the titles "test upload" and "test upload 2" and both have been compressed from the original filesize and in both you can definitely see the compression. In the version with the scanlines, the original filesize was 331 KB and the uploaded version is 149.27 KB. The simpler version's original filesize is 121 KB, but in the gallery it is 83.06 KB.

Weird, it must be compressing then. Unless of course you use another file extension, but I think it still looks top! Will split these posts from here to a thread in General, in case you wonder why it's gone.

The files are JPEG(.jpg) files, so that can't be the problem, can it?

Try PNG, though to be honest, it still looks perfect.