Chapter Eight: Preparing Photos for the Web with Photoshop
Preparing photos for use on the Web and on mobile devices (like cell phones or smart phones) requires saving the image in a file format supported by the browsing environment and then creating the best-looking image you can while keeping the file size low for quick loading on any Internet connection.
Because this section pertains to photos—as opposed to line art, such as a solid-color logo or other image with no photographic or highly detailed content—the two most appropriate formats to use are JPEG or PNG (the third widely supported image format on the Web, GIF, does not present photographs well). JPEG is the standard for photos, and provides the depth of color and detail that photos, ...
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