# Massive file sizes \>\_\<

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/massive-file-sizes--/7294>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [October 27, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/massive-file-sizes--/7294 "2002-10-27T20:32:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![aznrice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@aznrice](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/aznrice)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/massive-file-sizes--/7294/1 "2002-10-27T20:32:23Z")

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hello, i’m currently making a flash site w/ a pretty large amount of pictures. these pictures average around only about 70-80kb a pic, but this can add up quickly. i’m trying to keep the flash file size as low as possible…ppl hate waiting for a slow loading page… =/

thx

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/massive-file-sizes--/7294/2 "2002-10-27T22:03:43Z")

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Make the images seperate swf files with preloaders - then have the images loaded into a blank MC in your main movie… that way people will only have to load pictures as they view them… hope this helps, if not explain a bit more what you are trying to achieve with the pics.

Peace

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/massive-file-sizes--/7294/3 "2002-10-27T22:04:11Z")

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As far as I know, there is only two ways to make pictures smaller in size (kb); lower the resolution or make the actual picture smaller. You can use a program like Photoshop to do that. That’s what I have done in the past to make my HTML webpages load faster.

Another idea; (if you have a catalog of pictures) make thumbnail pictures in your flash movie, turn them into buttons, then link them to bigger pictures on a HTML file that will be expected to take a little while to load. Plus, your viewer will be waiting for one picture at a time as opposed to all of them at once.

on(press){  
getURL(“picture1.jpeg”,“blank”);  
}

I’m kinda new at this stuff too, I hope this helps:smirk:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/massive-file-sizes--/7294/4 "2002-10-28T02:51:22Z")

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thx for the reply  
i think i’m sposed to make the whole site in flash, so i think i’ll try those seperate .swf files and preloaders… now to read up on how to do it \>\_\<