Uh, is there some photoshop subculture out there that centers around stretching my drawings around? Why aren't I the president of it, dammit? And where's my crown? I am truly curious...
Yeah, and it looks as awful here as it does in the other thread (not the ship or the drydock, but comp)
Do you have a problem with posting images that aren't stretched or blurred to the point of obscurity?
I believe that's what happens when you try to convert an image to JPG from some other format (BMP for example)... One of the reasons I try not to use JPG...
Nothing wrong with the Jpeg format, it's the compression that's the problem. Many packages let you choose how much compression you want to use, and even a lossless setting (no compression) would still give you a smaller file than a bitmap.
I wouldn't think it was the JPEG format as I post mainly JPEG images. A good (similar) example would be this image I did three years ago... Nor would I think it was the application or platform used as I generally use Photoshop on a Mac but did this next image using GIMP on one of my Silicon Graphics computers about 10 years ago... So if I had to guess I would say it was a choice made by the artist (rather than a format or compression issue), and as a piece of art I think it looks just fine.
It depends on the software you are using to downconvert the image. I use Picture It! 9 from Microsoft to downconvert BMPs to JPGs and it does a REALLY nice job. I can take a 2.2M BPM and downconvert it to a 150K JPG with basically no loss of resolution at "full" size or smaller. (I lose a little bit on the "magnified" view though.
Like the title of the picture indicates, it's just a doodle. As for the kitty picture, it was saved during a period when I was having problems with my graphics settings, and that was the best I could get.