[SOLVED] help with making text sharper & eliminating blurriness

iggy · **Posted:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 9:22 pm **(#1)**

GIMP Version: 2.8.14
Operating System: Linux
OS Version: xubuntu 15.10
GIMP Experience: Basic Level

Hey Gimpers. I know this is a pretty common problem but if anybody has a tip or link for me I'd appreciate it. I'll attach what (it's a banner 752X100 for my blog) it looks like in Gimp (72), which is perfect and then what it looks like on the blog (73).

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

The image on the blog is a 16Kb Jpeg file. Is this what you uploaded? It is not uncommon for such sites to summarily recompress images they consider too big.

saulgoode · **Posted:** Thu Jan 21, 2016 6:53 am **(#3)**

Try converting your banner to indexed mode ("Image->Mode->Indexed") and saving it as a PNG file. This should produce a decent result in a file less than 10KB in size.

iggy · **Posted:** Thu Jan 21, 2016 5:51 pm **(#4)**

ofnuts wrote:

The image on the blog is a 16Kb Jpeg file. Is this what you uploaded? It is not uncommon for such sites to summarily recompress images they consider too big.

Thanks ofnuts.

The image I uploaded to Blogger was 65Kb, so yeah, they compressed it, but 65Kb seems so small. Hmm.

iggy · **Posted:** Thu Jan 21, 2016 6:19 pm **(#5)**

saulgoode wrote:

Try converting your banner to indexed mode ("Image->Mode->Indexed") and saving it as a PNG file. This should produce a decent result in a file less than 10KB in size.

Oh wow! Thanks so much, saul! That worked perfectly! I even used some rougher font, which is what I wanted to use in the first place. I really appreciate it! :tyspin