On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:18:41AM +0800, Sasami-chan wrote:
: Tenchi MP <tenchimp@tomato.tomatoweb.com> screamed:
: 
: >GOD DAMNIT!! i just spent about 2 hours making a Kenshin image with all the
: >main characters in it for my site character page (gona use a map thing) the
: >damn thing wound up being almost 10 layers, after all that work i saved it
: >and like a moron closed down psp... well i just opened it up and i realized
: >i #@$#@$#@ forgot to set the quality when i saved it so it  looks all
: >grainy and shit now! GOD DAMNIT GOD #@$#@$#@! DAMNIT!!!!! 2 hours of
: >painstaking image manipulation down the #@$@#$ drain. Theres no way im
: >doing that again so guess im stuck with this crappy ass quality immage.. oh
: >god this pisses me off so bad why the hell did i close it down... grrrrrrrr
: 
: You have my sympathies, TMP. Heaven knows how many times that had
: happened to me. Here is what I do nowadays to prevent something like this
: from happening: save the image after every two major manipulations. This
: way, you are less likely to have to start over, and should you dislike
: something you've done along the way, you can skip back to the image
: right before you've done that something.

    Saving often is a good thing.  Every 5-10 minutes is okay.  Also, if
    you should do save with a different filename at each step of editing
    (e.g. image.jpg -> image1.jpg -> image2.jpg -> image3.jpg -> ...).
    Finally, always save in the program's native file format to maintain
    the highest quality.  When you are ready to export it to JPEG or GIF
    or something lossy, save from your master image.


___/^_^\___ Eugene Lee
            ryoohki@anime.net (new address)