A common mistake that novice web designers make is over compression of their images. This can result in artifacts and banding that make the images look bad. Learn about some of the causes of over compression and how you can avoid it without sacrificing the quality of your images.

An over compressed gradient
Image courtesy J Kyrnin

I often have trouble with over compression on About.com articles, because About.com automatically compresses images I upload—even if I've already compressed them. This is common on many About.com sites. You can see the over compression in my article on HSL colors as well as in this article on the Sikhism site (visit Sukhmandir Khalsa's blog to see the less compressed version of the image.

Read the full article: Image Over Compression

Help Optimizing Images

• Optimizing Images
• The Pitfalls of JPG Compression
• How to Make Smaller GIFs
• Optimize JPEG Images
• JPG Artifacts

Don't Make Your Images Look Bad with Over Compression originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, September 23rd, 2011 at 04:21:40.

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