Take the time to read this page if your are planning to upload all of your photos. An optimised image can help make your website load faster.
We have links below to teach you how to optimise an image for web use.
Using Photoshop:
- How To Properly Optimise Images for Web in Photoshop (web tutorial)
- Save Photos For Email Or The Web In Photoshop (web tutorial)
- Optimise image for website using Photoshop (video tutorial)
Using Photoshop Elements:
- Optimising images (Web tutorial)
- Optimising images in Photoshop Elements (Web tutorial)
Using GIMP (Graphical Image Manipulation Program)
- Optimising Images for the Web using GIMP (Web tutorial)
Using JPEGMini:
- How to use JPEGmini web (This is recommended for websites that occasionally or seldom update their photos . Web version is 100% free)
- How to use JPEGmini software (Recommended for businesses that regularly update blogs and online stores. A free software version is also available for this option.)
How to Optimise images for wordpress:
- How to Save Images Optimised for WordPress (video tutorial)
- Speed Up Your WordPress – How to Save Images Optimized for Web (web tutorial)
- The Ultimate Guide to Image Optimization for WordPress
Premium Tools (Where to download/get them)
- Adobe Photoshop is still the best software to edit, enhance, resize and optimise your web images.
- Adobe Fireworks probably one of the best and easiest tool to use for image optimisation out there.
- Photoshop Elements is Adobe’s easy to use software for editing and enhancing your images.
Free Image editor Tools
- GIMP (Graphical image manipulation program) is an open-source software you can use to edit,
resize, and/or optimise your images. - Pixlr can be used online or offline. They have a free option where you can use to edit your images.
- JPEGmini can optimise your photos without losing their original quality.