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Idrizi.A
Idrizi.A

Reputation: 12010

Ruthlessly compressing large images for the web?

I have a very large background image (about 940x940 pixels) and I'm wondering if anyone has tips for compressing a file this large further than Photoshop can handle? The best compression without serious loss of quality from Photoshop is PNG 8 (250 KB); does anyone know of a way to compress an image down further than this (maybe compress a PNG after it's been saved)?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 809

Answers (1)

Andy Davies
Andy Davies

Reputation: 5824

What's it's an image of, this will affect how you should compress it?

If it's a photo run it through jpegmini.com, if it's a more icon based PNG is a better choice, and there are many tools to help e.g ImageOptim, pngmini.com, pngquant, (here's some others - http://www.phpied.com/png-optimization-tools/)

if it's vector can you convert it to SVG - this will be a problem for some browsers but you can degrade gracefully.

Finally if it's something like a gradient can you relace it with CSS and degrade for other browsers?

Show us the picture and we can give you better hints

Upvotes: 7

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