[sally]

Helup, I have done a new banner for my site and it looks great (in my opinion) but when I press save for web and devices it goes from 714k to 79.51k and looks total pants.

The banner I have at the moment is just 39.6kb and is a .gif file.

How do I save it so I keep the quality but it doesn't take 10 hours to download onto the page?

[PremierPDS]

Try saving and then loading it in different resolutions Sal. Save for web if I remember rightly saves at 72dpi which is pants for some images and IMO is horrific when it comes to gradients. I don't design for the web (not yet anyway) so I'm no expert but I know my gradient background had to be saved in a much higher resolution to get it to look right and I spent ages working out how to get it to look good- saved it as 300dpi jpg in the end but I guess it depends how big the file you're talking about is as mine was only relatively small!

[mts]

I would try just saving it as a jpeg file rather than choosing the save for web devices option. It should reduce the size but not effect the quality too much

[sally]

Thank you, the jpg makes the file a lot smaller if I save it at medium quality but then it doesn't look very good but a lot better than the gif file.

[mts]

The other type to try would be .png but that will make the file size quite larger than a jpg file

[sally]

Tried that and it was huge, it needs to be a small file size so it downloads quickly onto the page.

[mts]

the .jpg would be your best bet. or try setting the resoloution higher on a gif file

[Alvin]

when you save for the web in photoshop you can chose the quality you want ,with the little slider thingy.save as jpeg.

Alvin

[sally]

Well it's in as a jpg but it's 3 times the size of the old one. Have done new buttons too but they are also huge compared to the old ones - I just don't see how he got the file sizes so small.

[Chubster]

Can you email me it so I can have a play? You have my address dont you ?