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Article Surfing ArchiveOptimizing Images For Web Pages - Articles SurfingIf you want attractive, fast loading pages on your web site, then you must optimize the images that you use. Optimizing essentially means finding the right balance between image file size and image quality. There are various ways to do this, and here we'll discuss some of the common options. Reduce the Image Quality: Crop Images: Resize Images: Image Optimizing Tools: If you have Adobe Photoshop, you might want to read the optimizing images tutorial at http://catalyst.washington.edu/catalyst/how-to/scanning/minimizeImages.html which has excellent step-by-step instructions. There are also free online tools. Netmechanic offers free sample use of GifBot, at http://www.netmechanic.com/products/GIFbot_FreeSample.shtml, which displays optimized versions of any image you upload, ranging from 90 percent down to 10 percent compression. MyImager, at http://www.myimager.com, is an online image editor with many different effects options, plus the capability to reduce colors in gifs and reduce quality in jpg format. There are many others - just search for "online image optimizer" in Google for more options. One caveat - never optimize the original image! Re-Using Images: Choose the Right Image Format:
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