Thanks for your replies everyone - I'll check out those tools. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nikita The Spider The Spider Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 1:55 a.m. To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] PNG file sizes
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Ca Phun Ung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Brown wrote: > > > > > Rachel May wrote: > > > > > I created the PNGs in Photoshop (CS3) and just wondering if there are > any better tools or ways of saving the PNGs for smaller file size, while > still retaining their high quality?? > > > > > > > http://www.ignite-it.co.uk/ > > > > Best. Graphics. Optimiser. PlugIn. > > > > > I use PNGGauntlet as an after process to optimize those PNGs. > > http://brh.numbera.com/software/pnggauntlet/ > > Unfortunately it only supports Windows. The Gimp (graphics editor) has PngCrush built into its save routine. You could also run PngCrush separately, I guess, but I never have because I always use The Gimp. Also, PngQuant runs on *nix boxes (and Windows?) and allows you to reduce the palette size of PNGs. Save a PNG as indexed and then tell PngQuant to rerender the PNG with a fixed palette size (up to 256 entries, I think) and it will dither any colors that don't fit in the palette. You can try with different palette sizes to see what tradeoff of size/quality works for you. Enjoy -- Philip http://NikitaTheSpider.com/ Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
