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[Mike McGrath]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Nicu Buculei wrote:

> Mike McGrath wrote:
> > Can we shrink the front page icon?
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/static/images/f10launch.png
> >
> > Currently at 139K, its not huge or anything but I traveled a lot today and
> > it was noticeably slow to load compared to the rest of the content.  if
> > there's nothing we can do, there's nothing we can do but I thought I'd
> > ask.
>
> Not by much if we want to keep the rounded corners transparent (PNG), after
> optimization I can get it only to 132.5K, not much as a saving:
> http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/banners/f10launch.png
>
> So to a real decrease we have to make some compromises:
>
> - switch to PNG with indexed colors at 58K, but the dithering really looks
> ugly: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/banners/f10launch_indexed.png
>
> - switch to JPEG with no compression to preserve the image quality but replace
> the transparent corners with a white background at 70K:
> http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/banners/f10launch.jpg
>
> - if needed, we can play further with JPEG compression and decrease the file
> size more, like this at 34K (I believe it still look good but also there is
> room to decrease the size): http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/banners/f10launch1.jpg
>

Naw, no worries.  It's not costing that much but figured it would be worth
it
to ask.

	-Mike