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.
Top 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. This tutorial assumes you already have some image editing software installed on your PC.
Optimising JPEG Images
Optimising GIF images
Dithering GIF imagesTip: The inbuilt editor in Joomla does have basic image cropping capabilities but this should really only be used for those quick jobs as it doesn't optimise the image as well.
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We've found this great online image resizing service from PicResize which is really easy to use and produces resized and optimised images for use in your website.
There are two versions of this service:
v2 is for those people who have had very little exposure to image editing and want a step by step process to follow.
v3 whilst still very easy to use maybe more suited to those that have has some experience with image editing
Top 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.