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Images form an integral part of the web these days.
And as it turns out, images are one of the most common reasons of slow page load times.
One of the ways to optimize photos for the web is to use CSS sprites.
Here are some of the options you could use to optimize images for the web.
Most image editors have one or more ways to optimize images for the web.
Great thing about Smush.It is that it doesn’t alter the quality of the image.
It presents you with a number of different versions of the image along with the size and optional preview.
There is evident degradation in image quality in the very low size images.
PNG Crusher
PNG Crusher is a Mac system.
As the name suggests it specializes in PNG file optimization.
The tool gives you a container of sorts that lets you drag and drop PNG files onto it.
The files are then compressed using OptiPNG as the backend.
The site notes some PNG’s are already pretty optimized and PNG crusher can’t do much with them.
GIFWorks
GIFWorks performs a number of operations on GIF files.
In addition GIFWorks also lets you create 3D text from scratch as well.
There is minimal to no loss of quality during the compression process and the results are excellent.
The site requires flash and has a maximum file size limit of 350 KB.
