Timeline for Is it practical to use transparent PNGs instead of JPGs for product shots?
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| May 7, 2014 at 15:43 | comment | added | kalenjordan | Great point about product zoom - that's something that's probably huge for 99% of merchants out there - we don't use it currently - the nature of our products aren't such that people are going to be too interested in zooming in as they would with clothes or many other types of products. | |
| May 7, 2014 at 15:42 | comment | added | kalenjordan | Thanks Erik! So it looks like that 5X figure is pretty accurate then. | |
| May 7, 2014 at 15:40 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 7, 2014 at 15:28 | comment | added | Erik Hansen | I just came across this tool that reduces the number of colors in a PNG: tinypng.com I was able to cut the sample PNG size in half. However you're still looking at 5x filesize. And integrating it with Magento would require connecting through their API: tinypng.com/developers | |
| May 7, 2014 at 15:25 | history | answered | Erik Hansen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |