Optimizing Images

October 17, 2018 Advice

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

What you’ll 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 “How To” Tips for UMaine Extension Web Managers, University of Maine Cooperative Extension.
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