The Best Way to Compress a JPG in Photoshop

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Tip 1 - How to Compress Your Images Using Photoshop

Published: 9 years ago | Submitted by aw 091486 | permalink

Image compression is only ONE of the things you can do to help improve the performance of your site. Large image sizes always cause web pages to load much slower. That is why it might be a good ha...
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For further reading: http://thesocialmediapanel.com/how-to-compress-your-images-using-photoshop/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - Photoshop JPEG Compression and Image Quality

Published: 9 years ago | Submitted by Beamer 22 | permalink

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

For further reading: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/essentials/jpeg-compression/ ^[2]

Tip 3 - How do I... Compress a GIF or a JPEG graphic in Photoshop CS3?

Published: 9 years ago | Submitted by Daniel Galpern | permalink

<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.

For further reading: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/how-do-i/how-do-i-compress-a-gif-or-a-jpeg-graphic-in-photoshop-cs3/ ^[3]

Tip 4 - Save For Web: Better JPEG Compression with Adobe Photoshop - Tuts+ Photo & Video Tutorial

Published: 9 years ago | Submitted by magicstone | permalink

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

For further reading: http://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/save-for-web-better-jpeg-compression-with-adobe-photoshop--cms-23080 ^[4]

Tip 5 - JPEG Optimization for The Web – Ultimate Guide

Published: 9 years ago | Submitted by MERCIERM | permalink

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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For further reading: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/jpeg-optimization-guide/ ^[5]

Tip 6 - Optimizing JPEG Images with the Save for Web dialog in Adobe Photoshop -

Published: 9 years ago | Submitted by Stephane TRUMTEL | permalink

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 …

For further reading: http://www.digitalfamily.com/tutorials/optimizing-jpeg-images-for-the-web/ ^[6]