Thread: Portrait Packs - JPG vs PNG
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April 30th, 2022, 06:50 #1
Portrait Packs - JPG vs PNG
I read in the wiki that for PPKs we should use Optimized JPGs (60-70%)
https://fantasygroundsunity.atlassia...Portrait+Packs
However, most PPKs I look at contents of seem to have PNGs in them instead.
Is this due to the JPG comment being old (or very new, since even my DLWWW Portraits are PNGs)
I started converting to JPG on my current thing and decided to check naming if they more often use "-" or "_" ("-" is most common I found) and then noticed most were PNGs although an occasional french fry was found in the onion rings.
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April 30th, 2022, 09:21 #2
I've generally always used png files for portraits but either jpg or png will be fine.
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April 30th, 2022, 19:44 #3
Good to know. I had previously always created PNGs for portaits (and tokens, of course) and JPGs for "standard" images.
Then I read the WIKI as I tried to refamiliarize with current norms:
Code:Creating Portrait Packs To create a portrait pack you need the following: Portrait Image files Each portrait image file should be 100px by 100px optimized JPG (ScriptJPG at 60%-70% works great). Save the image files as a .zip file (not the folder they are in). Rename the extension ".zip" to ".ppk" and you are done.
I have poor vision and even on my big monitor I cannot make out details. When zoomed to even 140% I could see the "halo" around the face - although it wasn't "in your face" unless you were looking at it critically. I feel that a 100 16K portraits is nothing space wise (not that this has more than 22) so if not forbidden, I'd go that way.
I did notice that even in 5E/WotC portraits there are some png and more jpg. So it is probably a more "recent" change of preference for Smitworks. If JPGs are required for new submissions and they want what I am making, I'll swap in the JPG versions and keep for myself the higher quality ones.
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