From the course: Design the Web: Creating Smaller Graphics with PNG-8

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PNG-8 with PNGoo for Windows

PNG-8 with PNGoo for Windows

Now, I'll demonstrate a free application from the pngquant.org website for Windows. This features a graphical user interface and the application's called PNGoo. Now, I've downloaded the file to the desktop. Unzipped it. Now, inside of this folder here I can see I have the pngoo.exe file. Now, what I want to do is, go get that logo file from the exercise files and then open it in this particular application. So, I'm going to go over to the exercise files inside of the PNG 24 file, locate my logo.png. I'm going to move this window over to the side, come back to the pngoo.exe, double-click this to launch it. Once it's launched, I'll close the PNGoo window. Now, this is the application running here. Next, I'll grab the logo.png and drag it inside of the PNGoo application. It shows up here, which is basically a list or a cue of all the files that are going to be compressed. Now, with this selected, I can come up here and click on the Color Settings here. This will bring up a graphical…

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