Design & Publishing . / . WEB . / . PixelSmith . / . Mr. Pixelsmith fixes Subaru.com . / . Optimizing Subaru Downloading the graphic we discover it's 176K -- no wonder it took so long. Pulling it into Photoshop, and saving out as a jpg file trimmed it back to a tidy 31K for an 8 second download for even 28.8 modem owners. __ Here (in a separate browser window) is the actual ProJPEG dialog used to save the image at a 50% compression setting. __ In the detal shot, (below) you can decide for yourself if the compression rating was worth the image loss. We felt that this small amount of image loss was well worth the quicker load times. But how come Subaru didn't realize that?

__ We've also supplied an enlargement of the ProJpg window. ProJPEG has been in the pages of DT&G before. It's from BoxTop Software and it does as well, if not better than any other compression utility available. It has a generous image previewing window that allows you not only to compare the original image quality to JPEG compressed image quality simultaneously, but accurate file size and download speed comparisons as well. __ You can get more info on ProJPEG at the Boxtop software site. http://www.boxtopsoft.com/ Be sure and tell them Fred sent you! <- previous page _/_ back to Mr. Pixelsmith . . . Design & Publishing . / . WEB . / . Pixelsmith . / . Letters

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