Image site--reducing load

[P. Michael McCulley]

The GIF Wizard site for the U.S. is at URL

http://useast.gifwizard.com/cgi-bin/nph-gifwiz?task=frontpage&lang=en
& curr=us

and the links via http://www.gifwizard.com/

Best,
Michael
mcculley at netcom.com or mcculley at best.com


> From: Mary-Ellen Mort <memort at netcom.com>
>   To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> 
> 
> There is a website where you can enter the URL of a .gif and the site 
> will then return a page of the .gif with reduced colors (and perhaps 
> compact the .gif somehow.)
> 
> Does anyone know the address?
> 
> -------------------------end of original message--------------
> 
> Don't know abour the URL for such a graphic-file-reduction program.... 
> 
> But for another approach to "efficient graphics," subscribers may wish
> to try out a shareware copy of WebImage, a graphics utility. This does
> lots of manipulations of graphics, builds button bars, image maps,
> reduces colors, etc.  It's not a regular graphics editor package, like a
> PhotoShop or such. It's a powertool utility. 
> 
> F'r instance, here's a quote from the HELP file, relating to Mary
> Ellen's file-size question: "One way that WebImage may quickly reduce
> the size of a GIF file, is to resave a file and let WebImage auto-detect
> the number of colors in an image and save the file in the appropriate
> bit depth. For example, a 30 color GIF file will most likely have been
> saved as an 8-bit (256 colors) file. WebImage will auto-detect the color
> content of the image and save as a 5-bit (32 colors) file, effectively
> reducing the file size.
> "The content of the image is another consideration. Images with a wide
> array of colors do not compress as well as images with large areas of a
> single color. When color reducing an image, evaluate the difference
> between the matched and dithered methods, as dithered files do not
> compress well. Also consider using the JPG format for 24-bit images,
> carefully evaluating the size versus quality issue."
> 
> 
> Published by Group 42, the price for WebImage is $39.95. (Cheap)
> 
> Their site, for download or registering WebImage:
>    Secured Web Orders: http://www.group42.com/
>    Email: info at group42.com
>    Toll Free: 800-520-0042 (US Only)
>    Phone: (513) 831-3400
> 
> Cheers,
> - ernest
> 
> Ernest Perez, Ph.D.//Oregon State Library//perez at opac.state.or.us
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