Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Xero_Cool
Edit LMAO Blade. My sigs background is gray to you and orange to me  in ie

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Like WDZ already said, that's because MSIE doesn't support 8bit alpha channels for transparency.

1) You can fix this easly by not using a 8bit alpha channel for the transparency. You sig doesn't even need to have 8bit alpha transparency, so why using it Not only will your PNG be smaller, but all the browsers will show it correctly.
size gained by doing this: 45.056 bytes -> 40.960 bytes

Actually when editing your sig, I've seen that you aliased the border to white. Either alias it so you do use 8 bit alpha transparency, or make it so that you don't blend to white cause this will look ugly on darker backgrounds...
size gained by doing this: 40.960 bytes -> 40.847 bytes

2) Also there are some leftover pixels in the "transparent" border which should be cleared.
size gained by doing this: 40.847 bytes -> 40.541 bytes

3) And why using millions of colors when you're only using 245 colors. That can easly be cropped down which will be, again, smaller, by using an Octree Color Cut (big term for "strip every unused color").
size gained by doing this: 40.541 bytes -> 18.651 bytes

4) And because many colors of pixels are nearly the same, you can even reduce that so that compression of the image will be better and the size reduced even more, by using Median Color Cut instead of Octree...
size gained by doing this: 40.541 bytes -> 14.688 bytes

5) And because I used the Median Cut Filter instead and because this is a PNG (which can store palettes in the order of 2^X), I can now use the Octree method to even further reduce filesize (only a few bytes though).
size gained by doing this: 14.688 bytes -> 14.680 bytes

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Originally posted by DureX
maybe convert your image to a gif...

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nope, converting it to GIF will be useless in this case as the compression of the PNG is better then the one from GIF (in this case)


Thus, the final (fixed) image which is much much smaller in size then the original one (reduced by 66%!), but will show like it should show in every browser:

- image cropped to exclude leftover pixels
- removed the pure white blending
- colors reduced to 165 color palette (with Median Cut and Octree Cut method)