It looks pretty much the same, because my DVD capture program is finicky; it tends to soften up the image. I admit that this is a problem with a movie like Darkman due to it being a new DVD, but it's one I'm not terribly concerned about.

As for Island of Terror, that movie is just old, the print the DVD uses is a bit bad, and some scenes look a bit soft or washed out; but you'll get no complaining from me. I'm grateful there even is a DVD for it.

I do not agree with the "looks perfect"... the image is not very sharp for a picture coming from a DVD. It seems that indeed it was resized to a smaller width and the resized back to higher width.
Indeed it complies with size (pixels & kb) restrictions of the site, but as I said there is some detail loss, which is not good.
Can you also upload the non-resized picture to compare?

About size, 31 is of course smaller than 80, my message was referring to the 129 KB mentioned earlier but I did not quote the right part.

About the end of my message, I was asking if you resize the pictures you open each one individually, i.e. resize, save, next image, resize, save, etc.
Or if you used the "Batch conversion" thing that you can find in tools menu (which allows to process all pictures in few clicks).

Awesome, then.

Kooshmeister,
As far as I can tell, the Lincoln from Darkman that you resized looks perfect to upload. Don’t let yourself get too frustrated, we’re glad to have your contributions.

No, not really, surprisingly. Not to my eyes, anyway.



I'm afraid I have no idea what in the world you're asking. Are you implying 31.40 KB is too big to submit to the site? Is 31.40 KB bigger or smaller than 80 KB? Like, well, look, here is a Lincoln from Darkman I resized in XnView:



Is that the proper filesize for the site? Because honestly, that's all I care about, I'm so frustrated with this whole business and there's a lot I wish to contribute.

I doubt that there is only a very minor loss in that. Half of details must have been lost.

If they become so big after, I guess that when you resize them you do not adjust the compression ratio. Did you resize them one by one or dod you use the batch conversion?

I've tried everything and I still don't understand how in the world this is supposed to work. I experimented with the picture of the Austin, and found I couldn't make it be lower than 129.19 KB without it being 720x405. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but there is just no way I'm able to make the filesize smaller but keep the dimensions the same.

EDIT: I did find one way. By resizing the picture to 500x281, then saving it, then resizing it back to 720x405, with the resulting filesize lowered to 23.9 KB....but with a (very minor) loss of picture quality.

EDIT II: I'm now fooling around with screenshots of the cars from Darkman. Oddly, when in their original size of 864x486, their filesize is only 31.40 KB...and I used Sonic CinePlayer to take them just as I did with Island of Terror and the others. What gives? Does it have something to do with the quality of the DVD? Because the visual quality of the Darkman DVD is way better than that of Island of Terror's....

My comment was not about resize settings but about compression/quality in save settings.
i.e.:


when you just do "save" I do not really know what compression/quality setting it uses...

[done]

http://www.imcdb.org/movie_60548-Island-of-Terror.html

For using XnView to resize and compress at the same time, all I do is open XnView, then File>Open to open the image. Next I select Image>Resize. The only thing I enter is either the maximum allowed width or maximum allowed height (whichever ends up being the dimension which is the limiting factor). For standard 4:3 aspect ratio, I type 500 for the height in pixels, and the width is automatically calculated. If the image is 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, I enter 720 for the width in pixels, and the height is automatically calculated. Then I click OK, then File>Save or Save As, and name the file whatever I want to (usually I just overwrite the original file).

I admit I do not understand the inner workings of what happens, but it seems that the compression intertwined with the resizing. I guess that is what XnView calls “Resample”.

By default settings, I mean that I did not change any of the settings before I began using the program. I left “Keep aspect ratio” checked and I left “Resample: Lanczos” which is how it was when I downloaded it.

Sorry if I did not explain any of this clearly enough. Let me know if you have any other questions, and I’ll do my best to help.