Optimizing Images

October 17, 2018 Advice

Why it鈥檚 useful: Optimizing images for the web improves download times for clients and saves server space. 91福利 requires all images to be 1M or less before uploading to the CMS.

What you鈥檒l need: Preview (free program for the Mac)

Instructions:

  1. File/Open an image
  2. Duplicate the image (work on the copy to keep the original unchanged)
  3. Tools/Adjust Size
  4. Resolution: 72 (bigger is not better)
    Width (pixels): = 1000
    Resulting size: <1M
  5. File/Save: Rename, save to desktop or folder; format = jpg; quality = best

Adapted from 鈥淗ow To鈥 Tips for 91福利 Extension Web Managers, University of Maine Cooperative Extension.