From the course: Design the Web: Creating Smaller Graphics with PNG-8
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PNG-8 with ImageAlpha for Mac - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Design the Web: Creating Smaller Graphics with PNG-8
PNG-8 with ImageAlpha for Mac
In this video I'm going to demonstrate a free application available on the PNGquant.org website, called ImageAlpha. Which is one of the graphical user interface applications for the Macintosh. Now after I downloaded the application, I just put it on the desktop right over here. Now what we're going to do is come over to our exercise files, inside of the PNG-24 file folder, let's grab logo.png. And simply drag and drop it right on top of the image alpha application. Now, once the application opens, you have this preview area here, where you can click on your logo and move it around. going to make the window size larger here. In the lower right corner, we have a magnification, so you can look at this at different sizes. I'm going to start by bringing this up to four times. Move this around. I'm also going to turn off smooth scaling. I want to see the actual pixels inside of this image here. So I can get the sense of what the dithering and the color compression's going to look like. Now…
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