Some of you may feel free to say "I told you so!"

I've been heavy into Photoshop the past 24 hours or so reworking my site's color palette. My attempts at table-free design led me to re-slice my footer image because I couldn't duplicate my (simple) table. More on that to come. Anyway, while I was at it I re-worked a couple other things and gave Image Ready a shot at optimizing my existing images. These aren't up yet, I'm having at my javascript with the WD-40 and duct tape...

With nary a difference visible to the eye, here are my results:

The grassbar and bison jpegs in the footer used to total 40K. Now, 9K. :smokin:

The (redone) plank is down from 16K to 7. :pimp:

waterton.jpg has dropped from 33K to 21K. :cool:

Those image optimizations total a 37K reduction! :karate:

Yes ImageReady can optimize your images, I had a good friend who studied stuff like this, he was a big loading time geek. Good job, the quality is amazing yet the file size is so small :)

Photoshop can do the same. You just need to save for web and then select each image and change the settings...

Originally posted by Marble
Photoshop can do the same. You just need to save for web and then select each image and change the settings...

Exactly what I did... isn't that Image Ready, though? Is there some reason I should launch it separately? I just noticed it has its own little icon...

Several months ago I made a fake skyscraper-format banner as a study in making jpegs with text small yet legible. I was proud of coming in under 50KB. If you set jpeg too high, you'll lose the bright red for brick.

NOT A REAL AD

I loaded up that image and saved for web, then did the same from the .psd. Optimizing my existing 48KB jpeg beat saving from the psd via Image Ready, in terms of both quality and filesize. I got whupped again! 31KB for Image Ready.

STILL NOT A REAL AD!

Image ready has more "web related" features, but for image optimization they are the same.
In IR you can create animated gifs and things like that...

Now that I've been looking at them all day, I've noticed several flaws in my 'optimized' images that I can't live with. I don't want to go back to the previous filesizes, but it's obvious some further tinkering is necessary. I'm particularly noticing color flaws, 'plank' has a distinctive green shift of the critical 2-3 top rows of pixels - my slice no longer matches the image it's supposed to line up with.