Optimizing images using Photoshop or ImageReady
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady give you an effective range of controls for compressing the file size of an image while optimizing its on-screen display quality. Compression options vary according to the file format used to save the image.
The JPEG format is designed to preserve the broad color range and subtle brightness variations of continuous-tone images (such as photographs or images with gradients). This format can represent images using millions of colors.
The GIF format is effective at compressing solid-color images and images with areas of repetitive color (such as line art, logos, and illustrations with type). This format uses a palette of 256 colors to represent the image, and supports ...
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