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Helping us dialup folks see photos faster

by Les Spaiser (les [at] spaiser.net)
How to reduce your photos in size to make them upload / download faster.
1.jpgk16026.jpg
Please make your great photos smaller by reducing the color depth from 24 bpp (truecolor) to 8 bpp (256 colors) and then saving at less the max "quality." In this example I chose "60" as the compression / quality tradeoff.

Results shown below.

photo 1 is original, photo 2.jpg has been processed. Notice difference in time to download (on a dialup).


If you don't know how go to
http://www.spaiser.net/tips-for-publishing-photos/

Les
§Adjusted photo
by Les Spaiser (les [at] spaiser.net)
2.jpgv16026.jpg
This photo is 58 Kb versus the first photo which is 128 Kb and will thus download 2x as fast. On 5 or 10 pictures that is a lot of time.
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