The Best Way to Compress a JPG in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, we look at the JPEG file format and how JPEG compression affects the quality of our digital photos and images.

<img src="http://t.cbsimg.net/i/z/200606/how_110x85.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="85" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="110" />When you prepare graphics for the Web, choosing the proper format for your graphics is the key to ensuring that your Web site loads quickly in client browsers, regardless of the end-user's connection speed. Despite the escalating saturation of broadband connections, it is always a good idea to get your graphic media down to the smallest size possible while maintaining the best quality. I'll show you how Adobe Photoshop CS3 makes this process simple and quick.

Save For Web is a nifty feature of later editions of Adobe Photoshop that allows us to compromise in a better way with size and quality in order to retain a decent looking JPEG, PNG or GIF. It does this by reducing the quality and stripping out unnecessary metadata. This tutorial concentrate specifically on JPEG and will help you understand how Save For Web works so that you can get the best result for your needs. | Difficulty: Beginner; Length: Short; Tags: Save for Web, Adobe Photoshop, Compression, Post-Processing

Image compression is found in every native media format. However the difference between GIF, PNG, and JPEG is how the information is compressed and display
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The JPEG format is the best choice for optimizing continuous-tone images, such as photographs and images with many colors or gradients. When you optimize a JPEG, you can make the file size smaller by applying compression. The more compression, the smaller the image, but if you compress the image too much, the image can look …