Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/10

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Subject: [Leica] RE: bd's students work
From: azn at nemeng.com (Andrew Nemeth)
Date: Mon May 10 13:42:42 2004

 >  http://web.mit.edu/yamima/www/


I won't comment on the aesthetics of this site (definitely _not_ my cup 
'o' tea!),
but BD please - please - take the time to impress upon your students 
the importance
of keeping their online image filesizes small.

I know your class are all on (free) T3 broadband connections, but the 
URL above
deploys JPEG images which are barely 600 pix wide, and yet each weigh 
in at
approx 400 KB.

They should all be 40-80 KB.

Remind your students that when they get out into the real world, 
bandwidth
is neither infinite or free.  The larger their image filesizes, the 
more they (or
their clients) will have to pay in monthly server traffic fees.

Fortunately the latest versions of photoshop (CS or v7) come with a 
pretty
good "save for web" JPEG compression features.  Teach your students
to make use of this!



Regds,

Andrew Nemeth
<http://nemeng.com/leica/>
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