[DM-MUG] iWeb pictures

jim lagnese jlagnese at mac.com
Fri Feb 3 16:47:06 CST 2006


Or use ImageReady..


On 2/3/06 4:38 PM, "Alan Hansen" <alan at gohaddock.com> wrote:

> If I remember correctly, with the photos I have been working with they
> originally are like 1.6Mb in size but when I import them into iWeb they come
> in as about 166k JPG files which is like the default Medium setting.  They
> also could be exported at the smallest size from iPhoto and brought back in
> and they would only be like 122k JPG files.  Another suggestion would be if
> iWeb is cropping the file in a way you don¹t want it to you could crop it and
> modify it in iPhoto and then bring it in to iWeb.  Hope this helps!
> 
> 
> On 2/3/06 4:06 PM, "John Kisner" <kisnerj at dwx.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Web has no image-optimization feature, which is something I hope Apple will
>>> consider for the next version. Many weekend photographers create large
>>> digital images, which will download slowly onto viewers¹ computers. Large
>>> images also take up a lot of space on the .Mac server. Apple says that
>>> images are optimized to 800-by-600 pixels, and iWeb does translate non-Web
>>> image formats such as Raw and TIFF to the Web-friendly PNG format, but
>>> that¹s not the same thing as reducing the file size to attain a reasonable
>>> download time.
>> 
>> The above is from a review of iWeb on the MacWorld site.  I have two novice
>> questions for the group:
>> 
>> Am I correct that iPhoto does not have the ability to save a photo at lower
>> resolution, so I have to use the photoshop lite software that came with my
>> scanner?
>> 
>> Will I want to save photos at 640v480 or at a somewhat higher resolution?
>> 
>> By the way, iWeb's templates are pretty cool.  But I've noticed some limits
>> in the "embedded" slots for photos to jazz up a page -- they always have to
>> be the shape of the templates, and are cropped to fit.  I can live with that,
>> but it's a shame the "magic" isn't even more powerful.  But if these things
>> were perfect, I guess we wouldn't shell out money for the annual upgrades.
>> 
>> My rudimentary site, constructed over the past week.
>> 
>> http://web.mac.com/kisnerjohn/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html
>> 
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> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Alan
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