Creative Adobe Suite 5 Manual

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Note: If you save the settings in a another location, they will not be available from the Preset pop-up menu.
3To delete a preset, select the preset from Preset menu, and select Delete Settings from the Optimize menu. 
Work with slices in the Save For Web & Devices dialog box
If your image contains multiple slices, you must specify the slices to be optimized. You can apply optimization settings 
to additional slices by linking the slices....

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Anti-Alias (Illustrator only) Removes jagged edges in the artwork by applying anti-aliasing.
Clip To Artboard (Illustrator only) Clips the artwork size to match the document’s Artboard boundary. Any artwork 
outside the Artboard boundary will be deleted. 
Note: None of the features in the Image Size palette are available for the SWF and SVG file formats except Clip To 
Artboard.
3Enter new pixel dimensions or specify a percentage by which...

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4In the Image Size area, click the chainlink icon to the right of the W and H boxes to retain image proportions. Then 
enter a width.
For e-mail, 400 pixels is a good size. Use a smaller size if your recipient has a slow Internet connection.
5Click Save. Enter a file name and location in which to save the file. Under Format, make sure that Images Only is 
selected. Again click Save.
Now you are ready to e-mail the file. In some e-mail...

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Blur Specifies the amount of blur to apply to the image. This option applies an effect identical to that of the Gaussian 
Blur filter and allows the file to be compressed more, resulting in a smaller file size. A
 setting of 0.1 to 0.5 is 
recommended.
Embed Color Profile (Photoshop) or ICC Profile (Illustrator) Preserves color profiles in the optimized file. Some 
browsers use color profiles for color correction. 
Matte Specifies a fill...

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Color Reduction Method and Colors Specifies a method for generating the color lookup table and the number of colors 
you want in the color lookup table. You can select one of the following color reduction methods:
Perceptual Creates a custom color table by giving priority to colors for which the human eye has greater sensitivity. 
Selective Creates a color table similar to the Perceptual color table, but favoring broad areas of color and...

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To select a matte color, click the Matte color swatch and select a color in the color picker. Alternatively, select an 
option from the Matte menu: Eyedropper Color (to use the color in the eyedropper sample box), Foreground Color, 
Background Color, White, Black, or Other (to use the color picker).
Note: The Foreground Color and Background Color options are only available in Photoshop.
Examples of transparency and mattingA. Original image...

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Example of Pattern Transparency dithering (left) and applied to a web page background (right)
Interlace Displays a low-resolution version of the image in a browser while the full image file is downloading. 
Interlacing can make downloading time seem shorter and can assure viewers that downloading is
 in progress. 
However, interlacing also increases file size.
Web Snap Specifies a tolerance level for shifting colors to the closest web...

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View the color table for an optimized slice
The color table for a slice appears in the Color Table panel in the Save For Web & Devices dialog box. 
❖Select a slice that is optimized in GIF or PNG-8 format. The color table for the selected slice appears in the Save For 
Web & Devices color table.
If an image has multiple slices, the colors in the color table may vary between slices (you can link the slices first to 
prevent this from...

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Select colors in the color table
A white border appears around selected colors in the Color Table.
To select a color, click the color in the Color Table.
To select multiple colors in the color table, press Shift and click another color. All colors in the rows between the 
first and second selected colors are selected. To
 select a nonadjacent group of colors, press Ctrl (Windows) or 
Command (Mac
 OS) and click each color that you want to...

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Map colors to transparency
You can add transparency to an optimized image by mapping existing colors to transparency.
1Select one or more colors in the optimized image or color table.
2Do one of the following:
Click the Map Transparency button  in the Color Table palette. 
Choose Map/Unmap Selected Colors To/From Transparent from the Color Table palette menu.
The transparency grid  appears in half of each mapped color. The small square at...