Re: [FT] ST FT2.5 designs

devans@uneb.edu wrote:

> <snip>
> As an aside, the BMP's are cut-and-paste from a set of system icons at
> another web site (Siefert's?) but I'm finding the images are coming
out
> rather large, and Paint Shop Pro shrinks them with disastrous results
in
> quality. Suggestions, other than changing formats in PSP, are more
than
> welcome.
>

A couple of suggestions - forgive me if you've already tried them :

I'm not sure which version of PSP you're using, but PSP 3 has two image
resizing functions - resize and resample. Resample gives a much better
result
because it recalculates pixel values in the new image rather than just
picking
the closest pixel from the old image. Bit depth is also important - if
you
aren't using 24-bit images (16.7m colours) it can be worth changing the
bit
depth of your image to 24-bit, resampling to the new size and then
changing
back to your original bit depth.