Large images are almost always better off as jpegs. The exception being images that use lots of flat color and/or text.
Photoshop's Save for web features easily got this image down to 37K with similar visible quality. But you certainly don't need Photoshop. There are many shareware/freeware programs that do this as well. One freeware program called Paint Studio Lite did even better than Photoshop; it got the image down to 20-30K at the same visual quality. You can download it here (only a 2MB download): http://www.snapfiles.com/get/paintstudio.html Hope that helps. Paul Charles Martin wrote: > Chris Kennon wrote: > >> Any suggestions on bringing the file size down? I've tried >> interlacing the .gif the current size is the lowest without image >> degradation. > > > Just for comparison, I took the image into PaintShopPro (yes, I'm too > cheap to own Photoshop right now) and saved the image in JPEG format > at 10% compression. I noticed no image degradation, but the file size > dropped from 289K to 125K. (PNG was not much better than GIF in file > size). Dunno if you wanted to go that route, but any large images I > use on my site are first saved in both formats to determine the best > choice (once in a while, GIF is smaller than JPG). > _____ > > Charles Martin > http://www.webcudgel.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > -- ________________________ Paul Jones SPARKLE Webmaster www.sparkle.usu.edu 1-435-797-5594 Please note the new phone number: 1-435-797-5594 ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
