Standard Size. Created 15 years ago2008-06-11 07:54:42 UTC by Unbreakable

Just looking for all the standard sizes for wallpapers..
I made another render yesturday, and want to put it on my website for download..

I know 800x600, 1024x768, but are unsure of the others.

Most decent wallpapers offer a max size of 1600x1200 for 4:3 and 1680x1050 for 16:10 widescreen, I think. If they're covered most people should be happy I'd say.

Edit: For widescreen 1920x1200 might be the safer option.

ok, any others?
so far
800x600
1024x768
1600x1200
1680x1050
1920x1200

1400x900 plzkthx.

Here, i'll make things easy for you.

4:3 Ratio
800x600, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x960, 1600x1200

5:4 Ratio
1280x1024

16:10 Ratio (Widescreen)
1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, 2560x1600

"True" widescreen (16:9)
1280x720, 1920x1080

1366x768 kthxbai

that is hardly a standard resolution.

anyway, if you want to be lazy, just provide two sizes:
1600x1200, 2560x1600

5:4 and 16:9 users can figure it out.

if you want to be less lazy, resize these to the dimensions in strider's post, plus the ones in zombieloffe's post.

A lot of more recent HDTV's and monitors use that resolution. So even though it isn't, it will be. And I've found plenty of wallpapers in that size. And even a lot of games are starting to support it. I believe Quake Wars does.

ok guys, thatnks for the help, I'll jot those down.. and start to render..

just render one big one and resize it in photoshop

...I would, if I had photoshop at home... I spose I could just copy it to disc and resize it at school.. meh, whatever works.

or, you know....mspaint will do the same job.

MSPaint will do it, but the results will destroy all you know and love.

mspaint doesn't reduce the quality or anything :/
just save as a PNG
you can use ifranview to resize, but not crop. so crop with paint, resize with ifranview.

IrfanView (note: not Ifran) can crop. I've even done batch crops on like 100 images. MSPaint will compress heavily if saving as JPEG - not too sure about PNG and GIF, but I'm sure it does terrible things to them too.

Or you could use the interwebs to "obtain" photoshop. I mean seriously, who pays $1000 for a program that makes pretty pictures?

Why the hell bother with resizing? Just make them in the best resolutions for 4:3, 5:4 and 16:9.
Anyone who wishes for a smaller resolution can resize them himself.

Anyone who wishes for a smaller resolution can resize them himself.

Even windows does that automatically, just set it on "stretch" mode.

It wont even look distorted so long as it's the correct aspect ratio.

True, windows fits it.
Those are the only one you need to worry about then.

1600x1200
1280x1024
2560x1600

Just go large anyhow unless you can't spare the time to render.

ok, I'll make 5 renders.

i can confirm that mspaint does NOT screw up PNG images. i use it all the time to paste in printscreens. the save as jpeg doesn't have any options but it's decent enough if you want to upload a screenshot of tf2 or something you printscreened.

So what?

PNG's are only good for small graphics, and mostly when transparency is involved - something Paint fails at miserably. Saving the final product as a PNG is gonna' result in absurd file sizes, too.

It's easier to have one good program that does it all right then resizing it in one (with a specific format, I might add), then having to save it in another.

MSPaint can actually resize images too.

Yes I know, but Penguinboy suggested using InfranView for one purpose and Paint for another.

so crop with paint, resize with ifranview.

that's because paint has crappy resize - you can't specify the dimensions, you can only make it as a percentage of the original picture.

anyway, as i said originally, photoshop is the best thing for this particular job, but mspaint is good for printscreen jobs (printscreen, paste into paint, select the part you want, copy, new file, paste, save), which i do quite a bit. it's also good for games that don't have a screenshot key, just hit printscreen and paste into paint later. the jpeg quality is pretty much ideal for web-quality shots, as disposable images.

as for your comments on PNG, strider, you are wrong. PNG is best for images with lots of whitespace (or any other space of some single colour), making it ideal for screenshots of websites, plain text, and the like. transparency is a useful addition, yes, but PNG is not by any way limited to small graphics. large images with lots of whitespace compress far better as PNG then JPEG. in addition, PNG compression is lossless, which furthers it's usefulness with screenshots of plain text and websites. (although it is not limited to these uses)

Yeah, I was talking in context with what this thread is about - Wallpapers! I'm not trying to run off topic.

PNG Wallpapers? No thanks.

"small graphics" was a dodgy choice of words on my part.

I'll take a PNG wallpaper if its of a decent quality. Good for prints.

Well the quality is pretty much guaranteed to be fine, but i'm talking about the size and performance impact. A well compressed JPG is the better option for wallpapers, for obvious reasons.

And since when the hell did Microsoft products make such avid fans of you?! I feel like you're saying this just to hate on me. =(

They haven't, but when Photoshop screws up a PNG or two for me, leaving me no choice but to use Paint, then you kinda overlook the shittiness every now and then.

true, several times i have tried to open photoshop PNG's in irfanview and there has been wierd shit all over the parts that are supposed to be transparent.

Paint Shop Pro does the same thing.

Paint doesn't anti alias when you resize, so bleh. Its always ugly.
Late to the party, I am.

So in conclusion, for simplicity sake, get fucking photoshop...