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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The Importance of Optimizing Image Size for the Web

Webmasters often forget about the size of an image on their webpage. Depending on the computer and internet speed, an image may load faster on one browser than another. By keeping in mind image file size, you can make your pages load faster and accessible, and increase page crawl rate. The faster your images load, the less people are likely leave that page. Nobody likes a slow website!

Usually when I resize photos for the web, I do use Adobe Photoshop, and make sure that I save the image as “Save for Web.” This way, you will get the best quality looking image and a reasonable file size too.

There are image optimizers that you can also use that are web based and free. Online Image Optimizer allows you to either enter the URL of the image or upload one from your computer. You can then choose the file type to get the best optimized image size for the web.

Another website is Free Image Optimizer which lets you upload the image you want to resize. Smush.it is also another resource that lets you upload an image that is already on the web.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Adobe CS4 Should longtime users upgrade?

We suspect that only the most well-heeled will jump at the chance, as CS4 shares the majority of tools with its predecessor. Perhaps more dramatic, life-changing alterations will come with the next Creative Suite. That said, time-saving tweaks to Illustrator and Flash in particular could lure professionals immersed in them to upgrade.

With CS4, Adobe aimed to unify the interfaces of more than a dozen applications, including Flash and other former properties of Macromedia. You'll see similar pull down menus for toggling among workspaces that you can customize, as well as Flash-based panels that nicely snap open and shut. Corporate design departments will find plenty of enhancements for their teams to share work more quickly.

Adobe continues to improve integration among the applications. After Effects, as only one example, can import Photoshop 3D layers and export content directly into Flash.

Options for working with high-definition video and mobile content expand too, with support for the latest formats as well as for making Adobe AIR applications.

Source: Cnet