How to get higher quality images with Opera Mini?
Published August 15th, 2007 4:30 PM EDT By Daniel GoldmanBy default, Opera Mini compresses the images on webpages (by close to 90%) in order to minimize the amount of data transferred. If you’re paying for internet usage on your mobile phone per KB, the compression of images means a lower phone bill.
For those of you, like me, who pay a flat fee for data usage, you may want to increase the quality of the images. The higher resolution will make the images look crisper.
To do this, go to Menu > Tools > Settings… and check the ‘Higher image quality’ option.
(Opera Mini settings)
(A crisp image on Opera Mini)
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A Tip: You can have us a lighter webpage, if you use jpg instead of png. The second image in jpg is just around 18 kb instead of the current, 83 kb png. I know, broadband, but why waste anyway?
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Nike, thanks. I’ll keep that in mind.
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JPG for “pictures”
GIF or PNG for screenshots etc DOH
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Daniel, but for this post it is better to keep PNG, because you want to show how crisp picture is.
You still can decrease PNG size by switching from 32 bit to 24 bit. Use 32 bit only for images with transparency. I have managed to decrease size of second PNG image from 84 KB to 70 KB using Fireworks.
Generally for screenshots that show UI or text better use GIF or PNG. For photo better use JPEG.
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And then of course running it through OptiPNG gets it down from 70kb to 64kb.
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Say, Daniel, what plan and phone do you recommend for a good, cheap browsing experience with opera mini?
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opera mini, like opera desktop, have plenty of features so that we often forget.
for you (who have flat flee subscription option) you may enable it once for all images, but even for per-data subscriptions (or for people prefer it faster) opera always has the perfect solutions, for opera mini 3 you can click on image to select from a list of sizes (including original) to download.
in opera mini 4 beta (dimension) life is even better, right-click on the image (yes, i said right click, by pressing 1 while cursor over), then select open image
Jose, just be sure it supports midp 2.0 (most modern phones do), the new beta doesn’t work on java platform with midp 1.1 specifications