Gallery button reprocessed?

I just tried uploading a new version of my gallery button. The file was uploaded successfully, but when I went to the gallery page, the new button looked funny, and the file seemed to have shrunk to 2.56KB from 3.38KB, the size of my original.

So I'm wondering if this is a bandwidth conservation measure, an uploading error, or something else. Apologies if I missed an announcement somewhere.

Yeah, I apologize for that. I have to process all the buttons, no matter what, to prevent people from uploading buttons that are 600x400 BMPs. (Yes, it has happened. Multiple times, in fact.)

Everything that can affect other users will be run with an iron fist to ensure a reasonable browsing experience for all visitors. This also explains why you can't have HTML in gallery descriptions, why descriptions are truncated on the home page, etc. Anytime the only person you can hurt is yourself, I'll probably let people go to town and do whatever (i.e. - pick really bad colors, place white text on yellow backgrounds, upload massive animated blinking gifs of dbz characters, etc.... yes, all of these have happened, many times over).

Hmm, would the reprocessed button look better if I uploaded a higher-quality version of the original?

This link might be useful:

http://www.scantips.com/basics09.html

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Normally useful stuff for all the other things about scanning on this site (cel images, etc), but the rescaling library does a quick and dirty job on whatever you upload.

The best tip I can give you is that hard edges will yield compression artifacts. Other than that, all I can say is that I decreased my resolution to 1024x768 on my monitor (21", keep in mind) and all the buttons in the gallery updates look absolutely normal. Above average, even. Not perfect, but sharply diminishing returns for the last few percentage points of quality are the cost of perfection.