Joomla - Optimising images for use in your website

Optimising images for your website is essential if you want you pages to load faster ... and look better.

Tip: always take a copy of your images before you edit or optimise them. Although most image editors give you the option to save as a new file, it's very easy to forget this and overwrite the original, hence the suggestion.

The following tutorials are provided by About.com and give you a quick simple guide on how to optimise jpeg and gif images.

Optimising JPEG Images

Optimising GIF images

Dithering GIF images

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