And I just realized that I accidentally saved/posted this without compressing it, and it's 43MB instead of 11MB like everything else in the set. I can reupload this in a more managable size if needed.

bAv said:
And I just realized that I accidentally saved/posted this without compressing it, and it's 43MB instead of 11MB like everything else in the set. I can reupload this in a more managable size if needed.

If you're not talking to the artist then the policy of this site is to *always* post the highest-res least-compressed versions that an artist will allow to be posted.

AnotherDay said:
If you're not talking to the artist then the policy of this site is to *always* post the highest-res least-compressed versions that an artist will allow to be posted.

In my opinion 43 MB is a bit excessive

Cheetah with a Knot. Sounds like a band name to me.

FurryCreatureThing said:
Cheetah with a Knot. Sounds like a band name to me.

Cheetah/kitsune hybrid, to be specific. ^w^

bAv said:
And I just realized that I accidentally saved/posted this without compressing it, and it's 43MB instead of 11MB like everything else in the set. I can reupload this in a more managable size if needed.

You can do this to https://e621.net/post/show/1688081 as well, if you like, that one was also made using the lower resolution versions. (Only the first three are official, the artist knows about the edits, as does the character owner (which is me).)

Is the right foot backwards?

AnotherDay said:
If you're not talking to the artist then the policy of this site is to *always* post the highest-res least-compressed versions that an artist will allow to be posted.

So here's the thing, I myself always use word "optimization" with PNG files, because whenever I say compression, everyone gets extremely confused, because compression is this ugly word and we want least compressed versions right?
PNG uses lossless compression, that's how the files can be 2 MB instead of 50 MB (like they would be with BMP which doesn't support compression). Because of this compression we can easily host original quality versions without everyone pulling their hair out with the massive sizes. It would actually be extremely much preferred if artists themselves already put their files trough OptiPNG or PNGGauntlet to ensure that the files are as low sizes as they can be.

This is also reason why I always tell not to look at filesizes when determining quality of file, because 2 MB and 50 MB PNG files can be visually identical, other is just fully optimized and other is completely uncompressed. It's lossy formats like JPG and WebM where there will also be irreversible visual downgrade with higher compression, meaning that with those more compression is worse.

bAv said:
And I just realized that I accidentally saved/posted this without compressing it, and it's 43MB instead of 11MB like everything else in the set. I can reupload this in a more managable size if needed.

This would be much appreciated as I'm sure there will be more and more users complaining about the filesize for years to come if this is left intact.

DeadSkull said:
Is the right foot backwards?

Mirrored, technically.