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Before you can put an image into a web page you create, you need to know the following:
1. Is the image in the correct format for pasting onto a Web page?
Images must be in either a .GIF or a .JPG (JPEG) file format. GIF picturesare line drawings or "colored pictures" like you would see on a cartoon page in the Sunday comics.
A .JPG file is a FULL COLOR picture. A good example would be a photograph taken of your family. If the images are not in one of the above formats, you must convert them to either a .JPG or a .GIF format.
2. Is the image the proper size for your Web page? If it's not, you need to resize the picture to fit on your Web page.
3. What is the color format of the image? If the image is in a 24-bit format, you may want to reduce it to an 8-bit color format. This will make the image appear almost three times faster on the Web.
You can COMPRESS pictures using a FREEWARE program available from DreamScapeSoftware.com You can find other programs at DownLoad.com, TuDogs, or TuCOWS. For graphics that are in a .GIF format, you might want to look at a freeware product called, Gypsee. This is a .GIF optimization product. You can also find this item on the http://www.tucows.com website.
Once photographs are taken with an ordinary camera, you can use them in your Web site. First you need to scan them. Make sure that when you save the scanned image, you save the file with a .JPG extension. After you have the image saved as a .JPG file, you might find that the resulting image is quite large, and thus takes a long time to appear on your Web site.
If you have a digital camera, you will not have to scan your photographs. You can transfer these pictures directly to your hard drive and insert them in you website. Be sure to set the pictures to the 72 DPI resolution.
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