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Standard
Web graphics formats
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GIF
- Graphics Interchange Format |
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use
it for solid colors, lineart and images with 256 colors or less |
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transparent
GIF images can be used to show irregular or floating graphics
effects |
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optimizing
GIF graphic files |
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- reducing
the number of colors <bit-depth>
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save without dithering or anti-aliasing,
- crop
images right up to the edges
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JPEG
- Joint Photographic Experts Group |
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use
it for photographs, continuous-tone images and gradients |
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JPEG
files can have millions of colors (i.e. 24-bit images) |
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JPEG
images can be <compressed>
to reduce file size |
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when
saving JPEGs, select high compression (i.e. smaller files) first,
and see if image quality is acceptable
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