When submitting my tutorials so sites such as Good-Tutorials.com
or Pixel2Life.com, I have to think about image optimization
because my tutorials won't be accept if the file size of my icon
is too big. This topic has been posted in many places, but it is
important so I thought I'd post it myself.
Image optimization is basically making a file as small as
possible without losing a drastic amount of quality. I use
Photoshop to optimize my images.
Simply go to File -> Save for Web
GIF will give the smallest file size, but also the least
quality, so select it only if you have to.
JPEG is probably the best choice if you can go with it, it'll
give a good quality image, and still a small file size. When
using JPEG I like to make the quality around 30-40 for small
icons, but around 60-70 should be fine aswell.
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