Images for the web
November 20th, 2009 Posted in General
What makes a photograph you’ve taken different from the many images on a website?
The answer is mainly size related, and not visual size, but size in memory.
When a website loads it has to download all the imagery on a website, the small the image sizes in memory, the less time it takes for the website to load the faster the experience will be for your visitors.
One general rule of thumb is to try and get the image size down to it’s furthest before you can notice any loss in image quality.
Photoshops Save-for-web feature is perfect for carrying out this task. Try using JPEG quality 6 or 60 depending on which interface you are using.