Optimize Images for Website - WHY and HOW You Should be Optimizing PHOTOS 

Cool - glad you found it helpful

Cool - I guess that's why youtube is ranking it at the top for searches!

Glad it was helpful!

I actually did a video on bulk processing. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DdO6XqhnBk0.html

@@Webeminence Great thanks, I'll go watch it.

Thanks! I'm not familiar with PostGrid but just looked at the plugin page for it. If you start with images of the same pixel dimensions, they should look uniform if you use them in the same way. I THINK I know what you're talking about when you're talking about multiple types of blogs on one page. Maybe you're adding different blog sections on a single page? I've done this on some sites. It depends on what theme you're using and what options you have, but I do use categories for this type of organization often because blog widgets in different page builders often allow you to add only posts from a certain category. Then you can display different blog categories on different areas of the same page. I think you're on the right track with that.

+junaid hameed Good question - I use Photoshop to edit images and Save For Web. Typically when I'm saving large photos over 1000px to use full width, I lower the quality substantially to 50% or below. Sometimes I go as low as 20% if it doesn't hurt the image too much. You can usually go this low and not hurt the quality of the image, but drastically lower the size of the file. I'm sure other people will have tips for this too. Feel free to chime in...

Hi Sangeet, I did another video that addresses this question exactly - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lqv5RW56pZI.html

Some photo programs have batch processing for images. I use one called Fast Stone Photo Resizer that works great when I want to resize and optimize many photos at once. It's for Windows but I'm sure you can find something similar on Mac.

Hi! I'm 2 years late on this, but maybe this will be valuable for someone else: alessandrofrancesconi.it/projects/bimp/ It allows you to do batches in Gimp. There's a Windows download (what I use) and Download Source option (I didn't use that, but thinking that's for Mac). I've tested it now and it works VERY well. Some of the other options I've tried are complicated, whereas this option simply installs into your Gimp directory and adds a "batch" option under the file tab. Cheers

If you don't change the aspect of the image when it is saved and you don't change it in HTML with something like height=500px or width=auto, then it should maintain the same original aspect ratio.

Canon 5D Mark II. It's new and I'm an amateur with video. My videos will probably get better the more I experiment with it. I didn't have anyone to set focus and you can tell when I lean forward a bit, I come more into focus. Oh well, practice makes perfect :) The important part is my screen capture anyway. Anyone have tips on setting focus when you're on your own and can't see yourself in the shot? Maybe I should search RU-vid ;)

I haven't used that format yet, but have read about it. Doesn't seem to be very widely used yet and you'd have to convert images to the format.

Hm Ok thanks. So Igues you'd rather not prefer the format...

You may read this article: wpressmag.com/image-optimization/

Good question. If your site is on WordPress, you can use a plugin like WPsmush to optimize all images. If you're not on WordPress, you can look at plugins for your platform or other server options like the Google PageSpeed Module. I believe that will optimize images but you need root access to your server to install it.

Thanks For getting back to me. The site is being run through magento, and I have looked at what they have that is free but the write ups are not to good. I will look into something else though if you perhaps know of anything further that I could try please I would appreciate thee assistance.

Yeah, you'll have to contact Magento to see what they can offer. I haven't used it.

Not clear? hard to say what's wrong. Maybe it's showing a different version on smart phone?

Are you on your phone? Try doing it on your computer. Works for me.

Hey - you're not the first person to mention this. I use Imagify myself and like it. I'll probably add it to my blog post when I update it.

Oh cool! Thank you! If you make a video on it I can finally learn how to do it and others also. Thanks again.

Thanks for saying hello. Glad you found the video useful.

+david smith Thanks - I use Photoshop myself too. Have tried GIMP but never tried Paint.net.

You're welcome!

Hi - I did exactly that in the video comments. There you'll find links to different parts of the video to jump ahead.

Hi Trudy, Thanks for subscribing. Let me know what other videos you'd like to see! 1. This wouldn't be a Photoshop setting. You could disable right-clicks on the site that discourages people from saving images off your site. If you have images on a site though, people can always find a way to take them via a screenshot for example. 2. Check my site at WebEminence.com for the services I offer and feel free to contact me there.

Ryan @ Web Eminence thanks Ryan for quick response.

It just depends on what your needs are on your website. For full width images, I usually use 1500 - 1920px. And 1200px is a popular width for website content area. I use 500-600px images for my blog posts a lot and that's a good size for images mixed in with content. It depends on a lot of things, but that should give you a general idea.

Thank you! I've just started making websites, and so some essential numbers like the px size is something I'm naive to :)

4844 x 3609 ~ my best effort ^^,

Have you ever edited the image in the WordPress Media > Library?

No reason to have an image that large one a website.

Hey - I actually responded to a similar comment recently. Search the comments for "batch" and you should find my answer. Maybe I should do a video on the topic!

+Daniela Oliveira No big difference, but it may be redundant and inefficient. You can do the optimization in Photoshop using the Save For Web feature.

+Ryan @ Web Eminence thanks for the info :)

I guess that would be a different video. I didn't cover those topics in this video. Most WordPress themes I use now have responsive images built-in so I don't need to worry about it. If you do need to make all images responsive, CSS like the following will usually work: img {max-width: 100%; height: auto;}

thanks for help

Ryan @ Web Eminence hi this is True again. I can't find my questions to you. I'm hoping to get together my launch myself using Thrive themes for Wordpress websites. Are you familiar? Your videos have been also enlightening and this one in particular is prudent to the artists teachers and business owners and friends I have long standing relationship's with. This video has helped greatly, but has raised other concerns for my project that I can not and will not do to these now in the field known around the world. The ultimate goal of this entire calendar competition I held in 1998 & 1999 for a Artists Blind Juried Calendar event competition for a gallery exhibition of the winners pieces and a beautiful exhibit in print via the 2000 Juried Calendars. This has raised my need to protect the images of their work and of them. Can I prevent people from downloading images? OR is a watermark the best approach when you resize your images? Does the layover of the watermark make this uploading time too slow for your website? Thank you. My private contact info is trudyeva@outlook.com Thank you kindly. I will go to your website this evening.

Make sure to give a thumbs up then (a little one) :)

Hit MeNext It depends on your design. If I'm creating full width images, I usually create them in the 1000-1500px width range.

ah ok thanks, i guess it just depends on the most common screen size, like any website would probably look bad on a 50" tv

Hit MeNext Yes, this page gives some interesting info for this: www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp Also depends on your site design, whether it's a boxed design or full width.

+Joselito Pascual It depends on your site. If you have a fixed width, then the space the image is going will determine the size of your images. If you're using a full width design, it will depend on the size of a person's screen and will change. Most new monitors and laptops max out around 2,000px so there's no need for images to be larger than that at this point. I usually make full width images around 1500-2000px width.

Seems a lot of people are interested in image batching. I pinned a comment on this to the top of the comments but am thinking about doing a separate video on this soon. Subscribe so you don't miss it!

Anyone who sees this please try and answer asap im doing optimisation now

Ok im using gimp now and the black background has gone correct png with layers now so thats good but now im having a issue with the images blurring

You can save PNG files or GIF files as transparent in the save options which will remove the background. The blurring is likely due to the image quality you are saving at.

You're not the first person to ask this. I've answered it in other comment replies but maybe I'll do a separate video on it. You can do it in Photoshop or different standalone applications.

ok can u post link ? i hv photoshop cc. thnks fr reply. and can u tell what size should be maintain for mobile and desktop view for img galry?

I just pinned the comment to the top where I answered this question. For Photoshop, you can search other videos on batch processing. I've always found it cumbersome in Photoshop and prefer the standalone apps. Here's the link to the comment in case I unpin it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oi5SCqS-7xw.html&lc=z12esl0zvy2du1ovl231uzsrwpuwtjgf3 Size of images depends on different factors. For a gallery, I typically will use 800-1000px width images.

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Hi, I haven't used Paint in a while but I don't believe it will allow you to optimize images correctly for the web.

Hi, the reach of your posts probably doesn't have anything to do with the file size of your images. You can read Facebook's documentation on recommended file sizes.

If you already compressed them, they may be good for uploading to the website. You want them to be the correct size though. You don't want to use 2000px images if you are displaying them at 1000px.

@@Webeminence How to do this then, I compress them, they are correct size for shirt company at 3600-4800 or 12x16. How to do for website please since these are the ones loaded from shirt app.

This is what my video is about. I show some options for resizing images.

Maybe try a different browser. I don't use it regularly. You can search for others in Google. I don't know of any other free options off hand since I typically use Photoshop save for web option.

+Ahmed Essam You may want to look at on server optimization like the Google PageSpeed module. It performs some image optimization on images when they are loaded the first time. You can also create some restrictions on image uploads.

+Ryan @ Web Eminence thanks a lot that was helpful :D

Hard to say without seeing the image. Can you give the URL?

+Ryan @ Web Eminence www.aaronrolle.com ( it's still major tweaks but you can view it )

+Ryan @ Web Eminence I'm using Adobe Muse, I'm not sure if your familiar with that

And what's the image in question?

Resize = changing the dimensions of the image to make it larger or in this case smaller Compress = making the file size smaller by changing the file type or settings

which one i should focus to speed up my loading speed?? Is resize indirect resulted in compressing?

Did you watch my video. It explains this better than I can here. You should do both if you can. One doesn't really affect the other.

+Yasmin AKUNLU Do you mean clear image or clear content?

+Ryan @ Web Eminence clear ımage. But any other tips would be great. I am hopıng to use powerpoınt ın the background. ANY HELP REGARDING THIS and puttıng a vıdeo together lıke this would be great help. Many thanks

+Yasmin AKUNLU Well - I have a nice camera, but I'm still figuring out how to use it well for video.

+Henry webster Care to try that again? I assume you mean "image". Usually it's because the source URL is wrong.

Thanks I did mean images.

Tired doh

Hey, thanks for the kind words and glad you find my videos useful. The images at the top of your home page are full screen so they would normally be 1920px wide. Sometimes i make these full width images a bit smaller like 1600-1800px when they get really large. They will be scaled up but you probably won't notice too much quality loss. I would often do them at 40-50% jpg quality to get the size down. The more detailed images will be larger file sizes too which is the case for your images. Sometimes adding a transparent color over top will provide a better background contrast for text and usually makes the files size smaller.

Hit MeNext on.

Thanks for pointing out the typo. I prefer optimizing with a Z though. Fixed it!

You are rude...and worse

I've started blinking in my old age :)