We’ve all seen it… an image on a website that looks small, but takes forever to download (even on a high speed connection). The problem? They are not optimized for the web!
Oftentimes the clients that we deal with at Three Stream are small to medium sized businesses, and are not too enthusiastic about dropping $600 for Adobe Photoshop. Never fear, business owner! You too can have the power to easily compress quality images to a size that will make your website load faster – before your customer moves on to somewhere else. Here is my recommendation on a free way to save your images for the web.
Introducing… drum roll please… Web Resizer http://www.webresizer.com
So here is all you have to do:
- Go to http://www.webresizer.com
- Click the button marked “Resize Photo Now”
- Browse to find the image on your computer and upload it
- Make your changes (crop, resize, etc.) and click “Apply Changes”
- Download the image to your computer
Among the optimization features for this web app are cropping, image enhancement, resizing, rotating, and adding borders. There are also great help features that tell you what each option does. You can even make images black and white (for all you purists out there).
Now you might be wondering… what happens to my images? Who are these people who own the program? Do they now have a copy of my image? According to them, they are photographers who created the tool for their clients who want to update their own websites. The web app temporarily takes your images for a 60 minute session, and then deletes it off their server, never to be shared or distributed except by you.
Tags: business, free tools, images, optimization