# Photos and download time
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photos-and-download-time/18341
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 15, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photos-and-download-time/18341 "2003-04-15T18:22:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@P\_Noble](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/P_Noble)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photos-and-download-time/18341/1 "2003-04-15T18:22:44Z")
After looking at several great sites that use fantastic photos I am shocked at how quickly they load… compaired to my flash attempts with photos.
Mine seem to take longer to load (with preloader) than theirs do even at half the visual size.
Is their a trick to compressing the photo before inserting into the .fla file that I am missing?
Or could those photos be “secretly” loading prior to their appearance… thus making them seem to appear quicker than it would seem normal?
In the diolog box for Publish the defalt for jpg compression seems to be around 70 - 80%… I am bumping it up to 100% to look the best. Should I back off of this?
thanks for your advice in advance.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photos-and-download-time/18341/2 "2003-04-15T18:24:26Z")
I save my photo files in .PNG form
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photos-and-download-time/18341/3 "2003-04-15T18:24:59Z")
well, the ones I make anyway…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photos-and-download-time/18341/4 "2003-04-15T18:45:32Z")
the trick is to use you images at the edxact sizze you need them to be, ive noticed that fireworks is the best app to export jpgs or gifs the compression rate is incredible compared to photoshop its a big diffrence if you really care about kbs, then in flash use lossless gif or png and in the publish settings leave it at 80 it should look great theres some tutorials here on the site regarding this so do a search in the tutorials section
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photos-and-download-time/18341/5 "2003-04-15T18:50:38Z")
don’t forget about server hosting too… Most of them have their own broadband servers that are quick compared to the tripod/geocities/ any other free stuff
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photos-and-download-time/18341/6 "2003-04-15T21:14:33Z")
[1asphost.com](http://1asphost.com) works
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photos-and-download-time/18341/7 "2003-04-15T21:15:53Z")
personofdoom:
Are you telling me that ALL PHOTOS that you import into Flash you save as PNG’s first???
I usually only use PNG’s for images I need a transparent background.
Are PNG’s smaller… everytime by your experience?