@martin : Great technique and article, a precision though: pngnq also creates those PNG-8 with alpha layer and it’s cheaper than Fireworks (sure, it’s open source). ErieStuff details how to install it under Windows.
You can then minify every PNG you create with OptiPNG (with -o7 option, it’s slow but you’ll do it once and the image will be read thousands of times), whether it’s created with Fireworks, pngnq or whatever.
Felipe
@martin : Great technique and article, a precision though: pngnq also creates those PNG-8 with alpha layer and it’s cheaper than Fireworks (sure, it’s open source). ErieStuff details how to install it under Windows.
You can then minify every PNG you create with OptiPNG (with -o7 option, it’s slow but you’ll do it once and the image will be read thousands of times), whether it’s created with Fireworks, pngnq or whatever.