General question, why 20 kb sig size max?

The current size has only been around for a few years, it use to be bigger. Though I cant remember how big we were allowed this is my old sig 312x125 @18Kb

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The stated reasons for reducing size were aesthetics.

Also animated sigs were alllowed
 
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Some idiot on another forum I used to visit had a 15Mb .bmp for their signature. Not only was it huge in filesize, the bloody thing was about four monitors wide!

Clarkey said:
i'd be willing to say virtually nobody on here is running less than 1280x1024.
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I'm currently at 1280x960! :p Hopefully not for long though, should be popping up OcUK and grabbing one of those 20" Samsungs soon.
 
The dimensions of signatures arent an issue for me, but the file size is a bit.

I spend about half an hour making a sig, then i spend an hour trying to get it under 20k.

Usually comes out horridly compressed.
 
Insanity said:
The dimensions of signatures arent an issue for me, but the file size is a bit.

I spend about half an hour making a sig, then i spend an hour trying to get it under 20k.

Usually comes out horridly compressed.
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Ive had that with my bottom bar, the lowest quality jpeg made it 7 or 8 kb or something (Yes the black red bar on bottom of my sig), but then i tried GIF, made it just 825 bytes, jpeg is usually good for big pics with a lot of colours, gif seems better for pics with few colours and with big areas of the exact same colour (ie. cartoons).
 
I find the 'Save for Web' option in Photoshop CS2 does a pretty good good job on the compression v quality front. :)
 
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