Getting Images Right for the Web
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Making sure you best site looks great often involves getting the imagery right. Often this will be taken care of in the design, but if you have a content management system or are manually editing your pages you may need to change the images from time to time.
The first thing to remember is your average digital camera takes a pretty large picture these days, files will be about 3Mb. Your aim for the web is to make your file sizes as small as possible whilst retaining quality. This will ensure your site is nice and light and loads quickly for your users. Your images will need to be resized for your website. Your image resolution should be 72dpi which is generally called web resolution.
Here are some tools that can help you:
Online Free Web Based Tools
www.picnik.com
Desktop Programs
Photoshop Elements
Paint Shop Pro
