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diveram
10-23-2003, 9:40 PM
A while ago you all helped me with a site I made for a body shop I worked at....The problem I had was loading slow due to pics. snow man and others optimized them for me...how did you do that? I have Adobe photo elemente 7.0 that came with my scanner...but I haven't really played with it much, any tips would be great.

I am doing a site for a local company up the road from me, I got the job cuz I taught him to scuba dive, and he liked our dive shop site. I told him I am a hack, but I still got the job....go figure.

Also I may need your service snow man and NCD for a logo...I'll have to get back to you on that!

Thanks
Mntsnow
10-23-2003, 9:44 PM
Basically it's just called Optimizing for web...It works on Compression of the image...the trick is to find a balance between the compression and image quality... in short just try different levels of jpg compression tell you find what is acceptable to you
diveram
10-23-2003, 9:47 PM
I did see that on option under "file save as"
Thanks, I'll be messing with it..the site is loaded with pics.

I'll pm you about a logo later next week, if I can get them to spend a bit extra. :)
Mntsnow
10-23-2003, 9:52 PM
Sounds great
NDC
10-24-2003, 12:14 AM
"Save as" is not the same as "save for the web" with Adobe products. You will not get optimization using that method...
mholtum
10-24-2003, 12:19 AM
I use photoshop 7 and save for web. I get a .gif image and they load pretty darn quick. I think Elements also has this feature.. They are pretty much the same with the exception that Elements wont do layers. Am I correct?
NDC
10-24-2003, 12:28 AM
Well, I know Element 2.0 had layers you can work with. Anyhow..

Press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S at the same time and you will get the "save for the web" in Elements...