quick tips

bitmapped (or Rasterised) graphics

When producing new versions of a graphic from the original, always use the original to make each new version. This will retain as much of the quality as possible. And always ensure that the image mode is on RGB color.

This is because each time a graphics package shrinks an image, it reduces the number of colours, therefore reducing the quality. So if you use the original every time, you will always get the most colours possible.

This also means that unless the image is a vector image, you can't create a good quality larger version as there won't be enough colours to render the image at the same quality.

Once a graphics package, such as Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Fireworks, has optimized the graphic, you cannot get back to the original quality. Gifs are indexed color and jpgs may have have their quality reduced to shrink the file size.

There will always be the sacrifice between quality and file size - smaller file size = quicker download times.

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