From the course: Creating Optimized Graphics for the Web
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Optimizing JPEGs and JPGs - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Creating Optimized Graphics for the Web
Optimizing JPEGs and JPGs
- [Instructor] Let's start optimizing our first image using Photoshop. However, if you don't have Photoshop, you can use another graphics editor such as Gimp, which is gimp.org, which is free or online tools such as imagecompressor.com, which is a tool here online where you upload your file and then you can compress it, and then it's going to do all the job for you. In the end, there are many ways to compress and optimize images and most software or online tools use similar approach as what we'll do here. All right, so let's go in Photoshop and optimize our first image. So I'm going to go back to Photoshop and I'm going to go into the exercise files. I'm just going to close my browser, and in the exercise files, you have all these images here, you have this one here that we'll use to create an SVG. We have a PNG file that we'll use later, and this one is for creating a GIF, but I already created the frames for you.…
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