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I’m preparing images for a website and have been using the Save For Web feature in Photoshop 7.0.
All of the files that I am posting on the web are originally in CMYK color mode. Because of this I have been switching each of my images to RGB and then resizing them for the web. After resizing I have been using the Save For Web feature with (I’m not sure if this is relevant) the icc profile and optimized boxes both checked, the blur set to 0 and the matte is set on white. Also the quality is set on 51 and the file format menu is set to JPEG so that the images are being saved as JPEGs.
At one point I realized the the Save For Web feature automatically converts files to RGB, so I skipped the step of converting the files manually (selecting Image and then Mode). After doing this I realized that the resulting files were much smaller than the ones I had converted to RGB by selecting Image and then Mode. By using only the Save For Web feature to convert to RGB I could get images that were around 1/2 the size of the images I got when converting to RGB manually.
I was wondering if anyone knows why the new files are smaller and if there are any drawbacks to switching to RGB in this way. In terms of the quality of the final image, I could not notice a difference between the two, but there could easily be something I’m overlooking.
Computer details: Computer – Dell Latitude C810, Operating system – Windows 2000, RAM: around 523,000 KB, Photoshop: 7.0
Thanks very much
Raffi Schwartz
All of the files that I am posting on the web are originally in CMYK color mode. Because of this I have been switching each of my images to RGB and then resizing them for the web. After resizing I have been using the Save For Web feature with (I’m not sure if this is relevant) the icc profile and optimized boxes both checked, the blur set to 0 and the matte is set on white. Also the quality is set on 51 and the file format menu is set to JPEG so that the images are being saved as JPEGs.
At one point I realized the the Save For Web feature automatically converts files to RGB, so I skipped the step of converting the files manually (selecting Image and then Mode). After doing this I realized that the resulting files were much smaller than the ones I had converted to RGB by selecting Image and then Mode. By using only the Save For Web feature to convert to RGB I could get images that were around 1/2 the size of the images I got when converting to RGB manually.
I was wondering if anyone knows why the new files are smaller and if there are any drawbacks to switching to RGB in this way. In terms of the quality of the final image, I could not notice a difference between the two, but there could easily be something I’m overlooking.
Computer details: Computer – Dell Latitude C810, Operating system – Windows 2000, RAM: around 523,000 KB, Photoshop: 7.0
Thanks very much
Raffi Schwartz
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