Graphic Design Contests

**hamish** · 09-19-2004, 06:29 PM

Hello.

I appreciate that this question is asked a lot, but I'm having no luck in reducing the size of my images.

On my most recent web design I have a couple of images: http://www.scotvat.co.uk/

All of the images are small in size, but are 25kb each. They are all saved as gifs (i did use anti-aliasing on them though) and I can't understand why they are so big.

I appreciate that using anti-aliasing can make the filesize bigger.

All of the images started life a huge 3.2mega pixel files from my digital camera. However, they are now small pictures, yet they are really big file sizes.

Can anyone suggest why they are so big?

Thanks
Hamish

**tammyhart** · 09-20-2004, 11:36 AM

compress them?

**melfan** · 09-20-2004, 11:50 AM

Open your GIF with any imaging tool such as Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Fireworks. Then Save it as PNG (if fireworks) or PSD (if Adobe). After saving you can now export it to different type of image such as GIF, JPG and BMP. The imaging tool will also automatically compress the file.

**techwench** · 09-20-2004, 12:23 PM

To add to what melfan said, if your images are photos or images with lots of different colors, gradients, detail, then save them as either jpeg or png files, if saving as jpeg, set the compression somewhere between 30-60%

If your images are lineart or few colors, save them as gifs, and if the file sizes are still big, try using less colors. Default color pallette for gifs contain 256 colors, you could try using 128 or 64 colors, depending on your image.

Hope this helps.