Thread:DevSharma/@comment-5354013-20130910215432/@comment-3271569-20130911212220

Well their they are rendered manualy like I said before. Now we simply full them straight out the swfs so we can get them inside the best quality possible. Also an rendered mask uses more space than an background version. So rendering them would just increase the size and increase the loading time of those overview pages.

For the best example look to the egg pages. Look to the Eggs/Basic page. Their the images are rendered manualy (most of them). And you can clearly see the differents:


 * File:FireEgg.png you can clearly see the pixel border here.

Most rendered images that are rendered nicely have one of more of the following things:
 * Increased File Size
 * Descreased image size
 * Descreased quality
 * Additional effects to cover the render
 * Removal of their glow, shadow or other effects
 * Differents in color

Note: When editing an image you will never be able to keep the same size without reducing his quality. That's why it's seriously not recommanded todo so. Only if they files are in AI we can scale the image without effecting his shape. Than is most cases this will not cover the effects itself. So an reproduce is almost impossible.

So if you known the eggs are already in an original 50/50px size it's you will lose quality in every editing scenario. Whatever image you see on thirth party sites. Their will always be something wrong with it.

Most people use the thumb versions to make an easy render for them. Than you must known that these images are scale to 95-98% so you will lose an additional detail pix because of this. Not to mention the details in their border. Add the end you will endup with the bad rendered images with an increased file size. An browser has to load an additonal plug-in to read rendered images. An delay that can cause in increase of the loading time with about 15% I think.

So before we take this step I need to known what the community things about this. I guess the reason why you want them rendered is to have an colored background. Than I wonder if we can't cover this limitation with something else rather the damage the art social point has put into these eggs.