There is more to adding an image to your website than you may think.

The first thing to do is search for images that you want to use on your site. Make sure you are using images that are totally free to use with no water marks of copy wrights.

Here are a few good places to find images.

http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com

https://pixabay.com

https://pablo.buffer.com

Once you find an image right click on it and click save image as. This will open your file manager. Change the file name to correspond with the image. The file name you give it now will be the title of the image when you upload it to your site.

Now it's time to Optimize your images.



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phakacha8 Premium
Thanks for this great stuff. But wonder what must be done for those images already uploaded before this training.

Should those images be reuploaded to png and reinserted?
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drjec Premium
If the images that you have uploaded work on your site, they must be in a jpeg format so there is no need to change format to png.
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phakacha8 Premium
Thank you so much.
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Natz01 Premium
Hi Cathy, thanks for sharing.

Just one question - why do we need to do the Tiny PNG step at all? What does that process add of value, instead of just downloading the image without using it?

Thanks

Natalie
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Catwoman1459 Premium
Thanks for asking this question, I see I left it out. I have just added it to the tutorial.
Optimizing your images will save bandwidth and loading time, helping to make your site load faster.
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Natz01 Premium
Thank you!
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sinwm Premium
Great training. Thanks for sharing, Cathy
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Catwoman1459 Premium
You're welcome, glad you liked it! :)
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ChrisShouse Premium
Awesome training, thank you :)
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Catwoman1459 Premium
You're welcome!
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kdimeo Premium
Hi Cathy,
Thank you for this very timely information. I was just reading about this very topic earlier today and my brain short circuited! Your explanation was very simple and easy to follow. I am going to add this to my favorites for later reference. You mentioned using a program called Tiny PNG. Is this a free service, or do you need to pay to use it? If so, how much? Thanks for your help!
Kathy
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Catwoman1459 Premium
I'm glad you liked this tutorial. Yes, Tiny PNG is totally free to use.
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ThomasPye Premium
Thank you for sharing. Much Appreciated. I saved this.
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Catwoman1459 Premium
You're welcome!
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