Optimize Your PNG Graphics

ByWalter Wimberly

In some cases, PNG graphics can be a lot smaller than other graphic types, especially if you have solid colors. However, if you do a Save As in Photoshop, you will find yourself creating large, unoptimized PNG graphics.

Watch this tutorial to see how to optimize your PNG graphic, using Save for Web, to make your web site as fast as possible.

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Note: Photos are usually best saved as Jpeg, however, it is a similar process when saving for the web.

Optimize Your PNG Graphics was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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