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At 12:51 PM 9/23/96 -0500, Eric Meyer wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Grupo Correo wrote:
>>
>>> We are in the process of building a Web site for our newspaper in Spain
and
>>> our graphic designers (who are new in the Web business) are having
problems
>>> with the size of the gifs they are designing, which makes our pages very
>>> loaded.  They use Photoshop on Macintosh as a graphics tool.
>>>

Also check out Equilibrium's DeBabelizer. It is a must have tool for
compressing GIF images, dealing with color palette incompatibilities, and
such like.

>>> We have heard that working with less colours in the palette helps.  Are
>>> there any other tricks which you could tells us in order to reduce the
load
>>> of our graphics?  Any other tools which would also help?

I've become a big fan of Pantone's ColorWeb color picker for the Macintosh.
If you're creating big blocks of color, or creating new art, then this is a
must have. Basically it is a picker (that works as a system extension for
the Macintosh) that gives you 216 colors that are "Internet Safe". What
that really means is that the colors will not dither in either Netscape
Navigator or Internet Explorer on Windows (don't know (yet) whether the
colors are also safe for Java applets to use, 'cuz Java may use a different
palette, ugh). 

Among other nice things: ColorWeb comes with a hexachrome-printed fan
guide, an #rrggbb value for colors in the picker in case you want to hack
the values into the HTML yourself. Other wonderful things abound. Get it
from MacWarehouse, Publisher's Toolbox, etc.

cheers, bc
 
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