Re: a bit OT: optimisztion of images - help?

On 15-Mar-07 20:39:04, frederick said
Angus Manwaring wrote:

I was actually trying to reduce the size of computer game screen shots to
adorn my website with. My website has over 1000 reviews of Amiga computer
games so I wanted to be doing it right. Anyway, an internet buddy took one
of my raw .bmp screenshots and reduced it to a bit more than 10k in png
format. I have not yet been able to get him to tell me his secret.

I have been messing about with Adobe Photoshop - Image Ready and Save for
web etc, but cannot get close to that.

Can any of you explain how this is done?

If you're interested the original image is here:


http://www.angusm.demon.co.uk/AGDB/howthehell/

png format is probably the best compression format for your purpose -
with far less artifacts on images with areas of the same colour and
geometic patterns - like your game screenshots.
You can simply "save as png" from photoshop.

Yup, sorry I perhaps didn't make myself clear. I'm fine with saving in a
given format, but its the intricacies of optimising for that format in
Image Ready, Fireworks or whatever that I'm after.

I felt sure somebody here would know, said Angus provocatively. :)




All the best,
Angus Manwaring. (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)

I need your memories for the Amiga Games Database: A collection of Amiga
Game reviews by Amiga players http://www.angusm.demon.co.uk/AGDB/AGDB.html

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