Trimming the Fat

The Wicked Wench is a wild success! But, it’s coming with a hefty price. Yes, you guessed it: bandwidth, and lots of it. It’s only been 1 week, and I’ve already exceeded my monthly limit of free bandwidth (20GB). Of course, I’m sure the Jack Sparrow compass that was released yesterday did its fair share. By studying the situation, I think I may have discovered how to decrease bandwidth on the older models by about half.

The older models were compressed with Photoshop 5 LE, which is a stripped-down version that catered to those who couldn’t afford a full version. But with Photoshop 7, I’ve been able to decrease the file sizes by about 50%. I use the same compression techniques on the latest models, so those are as small as they’re gonna get right now.

Within the past month or so, three new paper models have been released, and bandwidth has suffered. That’s why I normally spread out the model releases. I think I may have to take another model offline. We’ll see. I’m not finished looking for solutions.