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Save for the web and use slices

Save for the web and use slices - Pixelmator Tutorial

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Save for the web and use slices

- Now, when you're working with images, there are many ways to save them for the web. You can of course just use the regular File, Export menu, but there is a dedicated tool that makes it easier to see what the file size is likely going to be. If I choose Share, Export for Web, it brings up a new dialog. You'll notice now that I can see the file format, so as I adjust the quality slider here for JPEG, the file size updates. Now, you were able to see that before, but not on some of the other formats. Now if I chose a PNG file with indexed 8-bit color, well, we can get an idea on what the file size is gonna be. There we go, and set the total number of colors in the image. Now, dropping down those colors is gonna reduce the file size, but also the fidelity of the overall image. Now, it'd be nice if you got a preview here, and you can see with the PNG format there, what the effects of dropping out the number of colors is having on that final image. This does allow you to get some idea of…

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