FOURDY Wlog Expressing the unexpressed!

Amidst of all discussion happening to save non-renewable resources why isn’t anyone thinking of web space? Where do you classify the webspace? Do you think you can go on and on and on putting anything over the internet?

With this though, I (as a web designer,) decided to optimize the size of all graphics that I use to build my webpages. For doing so, I came across many ways to do it and many tools which help you do it. I am listing the 6 excellent tools to do so.

Non-techie people can also use it while mailing/uploading photos taken from Digital Camera – which are generally huge in size!

Yahoo Smush.it

Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/smushit/

Radical Image Optimization Tool

RIOT is free program designed to efficiently optimize images for the Web

http://luci.criosweb.ro/riot/

PNGOUT

PNGOUT is a tool which can optimize PNG files created by other programs.

http://www.advsys.net/ken/util/pngout.htm

Online Image Optimizer- GIF, JPG, and PNG

Image Optimizer lets you easily optimize your gifs, animated gifs, jpgs, and pngs, so they load as fast as possible on your site.

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/

PNGGauntlet

PNGGauntlet is a .NET program that uses Ken Silverman’s PNGOUT to optimize PNG files.
http://brh.numbera.com/software/pnggauntlet/

SuperPNG

SuperPNG is a free Adobe Photoshop plug-in for using PNG (“ping”) files.

http://www.fnordware.com/superpng/

I hope that you find the above tools useful. Even if you don’t, Adobe Photoshop has “Save for Web” for you – stay with it!