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- spendogg
I know this is a novice question, but i am working on a 728x90 - 3 slide banner. and through image ready i can only get it down to about 28K - any suggestions on getting it to 15K?
thanks in advance
- gabriel_pc0
drop the number of colors in the image
- spendogg0
i have - 16 is the least i can have without it looking like crap
- ribit0
...and play with Selective vs Adaptive etc...and the Dither and 'Lossy'' settinsg.... dont ask me what they each do (I dont know)...just move them about and see what happens...
We get 3-4 frame banners with photos/sketches and text to around 20k using Selective, 256 colors, Lossy 0, Diffusion Dither 100%...and could probably do better. Dropping the colors isnt always the most effective size reducer if you have photos in there.
- spendogg0
thank ribit i will give it a go.
- ribit0
actually we usually have less than 256 colors in there to start with...but leaving the Image Ready pallette setting at 256 isnt going to add color data to the existing images if it is already at say 16 colors, so we rarely bother moving it down to find what our color level in the images really is...
- spendogg0
hey ribit - do people take png files - and what is it?
- level20
Use no gradients (more solid colors the better) - I prefer to use Fireworks, then use the export wizard and put the target file size.
- ribit0
We run ads for clients.. they send us banners (which we sometimes help optimize) or HTML redirect code for GIF or Flash banners to be served through our adserver.
Nobody has ever sent PNG, and I'm unsure if it is fully supported in all browsers (or advertisers just think it isnt?)
- spendogg0
thanks guys
- ribit0
One of our advertisers is serving Flash banners to everyone but Mac IE users (who get an animated GIF). Safari gets Flash... why would they do that?