A Video for the Ojambo.com Gimp Save Images For Web article.
Part One of One
Save for Web plugin allows settings such as compression quality, colours, resizing and cropping. Most photos with textures work best with the JPEG output and text works best with PNG format.
The video begins by opening up a bitmap file in Gimp. Minimal file size may not have decent image quality.
The tutorial is broken up into four parts. The first part imports a bitmap PNG file into Gimp.
The second part selects the best compromise between file size and image quality usign the Save for Web plugin. The third part saves the file under a different name. The final part consists of comparing the original bitmap with the edited version in a file browser.
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