Newbie question, in a bit of a muddle!

Hi,

I'm new to my company and also Dreamweaver (and photoshop), and we're having
some problems with our eshots (namely the file is too big). Basically what
i've been taught to do is construct the eshot in Photoshop with our prodyct
images, logo etc, and then create a html in Dreamweaver by creating tables and
inserting images into the tables and then sourcing and linking them. I'm just
wondering whether this is common practise or not.

I'm also struggling with how to make our e shots smaller in size (under 20k).
The last one we did was 640 x 1164 made up of 4 rows. Obviously i'm not saving
the iamges the right way in Photoshop (at the moment our web images are 72 dpi
and the smallest ones are 155 x 155 pixels) but as there's no one else here who
knows what they're doing with it it's very difficult to judge what's right and
what's not! When i'm "saving as" a jpeg, do i put it on a 'low' quality and
also change the size to the lowest (14.4 kbps) ???

Thanks in advance!

podling wrote:

Hi,

I'm new to my company and also Dreamweaver (and photoshop), and we're having
some problems with our eshots (namely the file is too big). Basically what
i've been taught to do is construct the eshot in Photoshop with our prodyct
images, logo etc, and then create a html in Dreamweaver by creating tables and
inserting images into the tables and then sourcing and linking them. I'm just
wondering whether this is common practise or not.

I'm also struggling with how to make our e shots smaller in size (under 20k).
The last one we did was 640 x 1164 made up of 4 rows. Obviously i'm not saving
the iamges the right way in Photoshop (at the moment our web images are 72 dpi
and the smallest ones are 155 x 155 pixels) but as there's no one else here who
knows what they're doing with it it's very difficult to judge what's right and
what's not! When i'm "saving as" a jpeg, do i put it on a 'low' quality and
also change the size to the lowest (14.4 kbps) ???

Thanks in advance!

In Photoshop you need to "save to web"

Steve

This may help you http://inobscuro.com/tutorials/read/35/

--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com


"podling" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hi,

I'm new to my company and also Dreamweaver (and photoshop), and we're
having
some problems with our eshots (namely the file is too big). Basically
what
i've been taught to do is construct the eshot in Photoshop with our
prodyct
images, logo etc, and then create a html in Dreamweaver by creating tables
and
inserting images into the tables and then sourcing and linking them. I'm
just
wondering whether this is common practise or not.

I'm also struggling with how to make our e shots smaller in size (under
20k).
The last one we did was 640 x 1164 made up of 4 rows. Obviously i'm not
saving
the iamges the right way in Photoshop (at the moment our web images are 72
dpi
and the smallest ones are 155 x 155 pixels) but as there's no one else
here who
knows what they're doing with it it's very difficult to judge what's right
and
what's not! When i'm "saving as" a jpeg, do i put it on a 'low' quality
and
also change the size to the lowest (14.4 kbps) ???

Thanks in advance!

Thanks for those tips, can't believe no one in this company knew about the 'save for web' before!