Rickihunter Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 hi all, i need to save a BMP file to be EXACTLY 300KB. it is for use on a BIOS splash screen, so it needs to be 600 x 480 and exactly 300KB. i have found that you can do this in Photoshop, but i can't find a way to do it PDN. does anyone know a work around? Thanks in advance Ricki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 There's no way to instruct Paint.NET "hey I need this to be 300KB". You can, however, watch the file size indicator in the Save Configuration dialog, and adjust parameters appropriately. When it comes to BMP, however, there's only a few options for trimming the file size: 24-bits, or 8-bits. The latter will be smaller of course. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 The only way that's going to happen is 8-bits per pixel, and no header information (ie a raw bitmap stream, not a BMP-format file). Paint.NET does not support saving this way. Also, your fancy gradients and effects there are going to be quantized rather badly into the 8 bit palette, which only supports 256 colors. Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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