What's the optimal graphic file size for uploading virtual badges?

We use 48x48 PNGs for our fundraising milestone badges. I created an html document to show our entire collection a few weeks back.

 

http://foundation.luriechildrens.org/_resources-teamraiser/reus_milestones/achievements.htm

 

Our hospital uses animal icons for each floor, and so I adopted those for our fundraising achievements. The hand icon is our logo, so I use variations of that for the other achievement badges.

 

I'm working on adding several new achievements to our set.

 

David Lytle:

Any tips for making the smaller, 16 x 16 virtual badges look good? These are the ones that appear on the scrolling honor rolls. Last year we uploaded them at the specificed pixel size and format, but something got lost in translation and the  image qualiy  suffered when they were posted.  Any suggestions?

As far as I know Luminate does the resizing itself, so you don’t have much control there. I just took a look at a few of ours, and they are okay but definitely not up to what I could easily do in PS.



This is a guess, but I think the image format might be relevant. Try a PNG or JPG rather than a GIF.



And a last idea is to check out the path of your 16x16 image that is not up to snuff. They all are stored in a directory that you can access via FTP. I bet you could replace those images manually and they would be fine (at least until someone uploads a new version via the GUI and steps on your change.)



http://foundation.luriechildrens.org/images/friendraiser_uploads/sm_1450.1418880424.orig.png





Regards,



Brian Patrick Mucha

Application Specialist

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Foundation

T 312.227.7286 | M 312.590.9557 | bmucha@luriechildrens.org| luriechildrens.org

225 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611-2991





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