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Harrybanana -> RE: Paint Test (12/12/2020 4:03:43 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kennonlightfoot
My suggestion is paint.net
Its free and very powerful for anything you want to do.
My suggestion on posts in AAR.
Put the turn date in the first line of the post. I hate having to scroll back pages to find out where we are in the game. Also, it elliminates the need to make sure the games move label is in the picture.
Paint.net has an excellent crop feature and ability to resize the image as well as save it with different percentage resolutions.
Don't try to show the whole map. Crop it down to the part that is relevant to what you are trying to say. The may mean multiple posts for a single turn but things will be much easier to see and understand.
After cropping, resize the image so the width is about the right size to fit on a browser screen without putting it into scroll mode. I usually try for something less than 7 inch width.
Then when you save use jpg format and lower the quality as much as possible. You usually can set it below 80% with little loss in detail since these map have limited color range. This will make the image upload and display on peoples browsers much faster.
Thank you for all this advice. I remember doing AARs for WIE and I could take several screenshots of the whole eastern front and then stich them all together. It meant you had to scroll, but the whole front was there in one post. I assume thye must have since reduced the size of pictures that can be posted.
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