Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

CHAPTER 23 DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE WEB 345

FIGURE 23.5
Yahoo! Images
is a great place
to start upload-
ing your images
to create your
first photo
gallery Web
page.

You must change your photo files into a form usable on the Internet. Software such

as Adobe ImageReady or Macromedia Fireworks automatically converts a photo-

graph that is already in digital form (for example, in a Photoshop file) into a Web-

compatible format. JPEG compresses your image file for the Web in low, medium, or

high quality. The higher the quality, the bigger the file size. Try saving in all three

and see which versions are acceptable. The goal is to use the smallest file size accept-

able for viewing. GIF was developed for graphics, but works for Web photos as well.