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Optimizing Images for theWeb, About optimization
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315 Chapter 12: Optimizing Images for the Web C reating small graphics files is key to distributing images on the World Wide Web. With smaller files, Web servers can store and transmit images more efficiently, and viewers can download images more quickly. Likewise, when preparing images for CD-ROM or other multimedia viewing, it's important to make the image files as small as possible. This conserves file storage space and decreases the amount of RAM needed for image display. About optimization Optimization is the process of fine- tuning the display quality and file size of an image for use on the Web or other online media. Adobe Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady give you an effective range of controls for compressing the file size of an image while optimizing its online display quality. You can optimize images in the three major graphic file formats used on the Web: GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), and PNG-8 or PNG-24 (Portable Network Graphics, with 8-bit or 24-bit color). There are two methods of optimizing images: • For basic optimization, the Photoshop Save As command lets you save an image as a GIF, JPEG, or PNG file. Depending on the file format, you can specify image quality, background transparency or matting, color display, and downloading method. However, any Web features-such as slices, links, animations, and rollovers-that you've added to a file are not preserved. For complete information on using the Save As command to save an image as a GIF, JPEG, or PNG file, see "Saving images" on page 357. • For precise optimization, you can use the optimization features in Photoshop or ImageReady to preview optimized images in different file formats and with different file attributes. You can view multiple versions of an image simultaneously and modify optimization settings as you preview the image to select the best combination of settings for your needs. You can also specify background transparency and matting, select options to control dithering, and resize the image to specified pixel dimensions or a specified percentage of the original size. When you save an optimized file using the Save for Web (Photoshop) or Save Optimized (ImageReady) command, you can choose to generate an HTML file for the image. This file contains all the necessary code to display your image-as well as links, rollovers, and animations-in a Web browser.