Saving Palettes; Adjusting Compression; To Change A Gif’s Compression - MACROMEDIA FIREWORKS 8-USING FIREWORKS Use Manual

Saving palettes

You can save custom palettes as external palette files. You can use saved palettes with other
Fireworks documents or in other applications that support external palette files, such as
Macromedia FreeHand, Macromedia Flash, and Adobe Photoshop. Saved palette files have
the .act extension.
To save a custom color palette:
1. Select Save Palette from the Optimize panel Options menu.
2. Type a name for the palette and select a destination folder.
3. Click Save.
You can load the saved palette file into the Swatches panel or Optimize panel for use when
exporting other documents.

Adjusting compression

You can compress GIF files to make them even smaller than usual by changing their loss
setting. Higher loss settings can yield smaller files but lower image quality. A loss setting
between 5 and 15 typically yields the best results.
Original GIF; loss value of 30; loss value of 100
To change a GIF's compression:
Enter a Loss setting in the Optimize panel.
Optimizing in the workspace 343