optimizing image tricks?
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- gruntt
so what are your tricks for optimizing web images without having your images look like crap?
- ribit0
depends what you are doing... but for our web magazine, for photosfrom 640x480 to 1600x1200, after batch resizing we use Image Ready quality '60' in the Optimize settings, and autocontrast and unsharp mask setting 20.
- anzelina0
i'm doing this right now.
i have to make a 120 x 240 animated gif, less than 30k.
it's not so easy!
- ribit0
I'm using Selective, with Dither: Diffusion 100%
- foreign0
.png's
- monNom0
to knock down file-size on an animated gif:
reduce number of frames,
reduce number of colours in palette.
if you can get away with it, don't dither.
for photos... try duotone rather than full colour, and see how much banding you can live with.
gifs compress based on number of same pixels in a row, so if you can make it so that more unbroken colours are used, do it. (eg: large areas of colour)
- -scarabin-0
um...
file/export for web
- anzelina0
gradients and gifs don't mix
- gruntt0
scarabin - no shit.
- lusty0
i use
http://www.ulead.com/ssp/runme.h…you can get the same quality at a half size
or you can put the size you want it (not always looks good, but it helps A LOT!)