Why are my skins so F'in BIG?

Any skin i do is ALWAYS above 150 kb, but my friend can do the same skin and he only hits 70 kb (90 at most) whats going on here?

mine are around 200kb... so yours arnt big. Though it really depends on what skin it is since a few of mine are around 90kb (such as watcher skin)

i think it depends on the model also if you use lots of different colors it also make the skin larger. 150 kb isnt a lot i say 250 and up is too large.

except that he made a skin, sent it too me, then i converted the skin, did a minor touchup and it had gone up 180 kb

ah, you see? this is what you get for not crediting satan for giving you inspiration XD.

I dont know are you using it as 24 bit not 32 bit. how big was the tga before you converted it?

tga was 90kb, .blp of that tga was 84kb, when i recoloured it and converted it became 210kb

all of my skinns are 100% the same size....256kb :S kinda large

send me a tga of your skin and I'm gonna convert it. This is the only way to know if your doing something wrong making it larger. Send me a pm of any edited skin.

nah, i worked out why, i was extracting in 36 million colors he was in 24 million (or whatever) and i was doing 150 quality in the image extractor instead of 75, i've managed to drop my skins down to 120kb

How could you have 150% quality? It actually looks better when you save it?

not 150%, 150 it has no % after it, and it is sharper, but as i am making skins for gameplay and not movie, i dont need it to be perfect, the main one was the 32 million colors instead of 24, that added about 120kb to everything

Well crap, I've always been saving at 999...

why would you want to make it above 100? The detail will be sharper but it doesnt matter if your gonna redraw the skin. Your gonna paint of it and make a new skin. The details would only matter if you gonna recolor.