RE: OT optimising pictures for web pages

["Mick Furlong" <hiltoneltd@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mark and Chris, I have Photoshop but not Fireworks, I may try doing
it with photoshop and the comments on reducing h x w first are the sort of
thing I was after. My preference is to use Irfanview as I like the nice
little batch facility.

Thanks also Alan I have Irfanview and use it thanks (see my original mail)
what I really need is some guidelines on what is the best trade off of size
vs. quality and how I achieve them hopefully Mark's comments will help me
there.Thanks for replying though

Cheers
Mick

-----Original Message-----
From: Alancc [mailto:alan.cc@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 June 2003 19:28
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT optimising pictures for web pages


Try www.irfanview.com I think it was Mark M who sugested it to me, it
works
OK and its freeware.

Alancc
----- Original Message -----
From: Mick Furlong <hiltoneltd@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 12:48 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] OT optimising pictures for web pages


> Folks I know a lot of you do web pages both for yourselves and others
so
I
> thought I would ask this here.
>
> I am putting together a website which will have pages with 2/3
smallish
> pictures in the text and I want them to download fast on a modem link.
> These  will then be linked to larger versions of the pictures....easy
so
> far.
>
> Question is how do I work out the optimum size for a trade off between
> download and quality? Is there a formula or method for doing this?
>
> the original pictures were taken on a 4.5megapiel camera and I can get
them
> to a reasonable number of Kbytes by using Irfanview and adjusting the
jpeg
> compression, do I also need to reduce the definition? (the originals
are
> around 1.3MB and 2272x1704x24bpp).
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Mick