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Date:   Sun Nov 26 16:55:50 2023 -0500

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+# aggressively ensmallening images for web
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+assuming that you are compressing to jpeg using GNU Image Manipulation Program (which i like to call g-image):
+- scale down the image
+  - scale the image to the smallest size you're willing to accept for your use case
+
+the next steps are during the export step in g-image under the "advanced" menu:
+- reduce quality
+  - set compression quality as low as 20 (or as low as you can accept)
+- smooth image
+  - between .10 and .15
+- progressive sampling
+  - check "progressive" in conversion menu (makes the image load in a smoother way on slow connections)
+- stripping metadata
+  - strip it all
+- color subsampling
+  - set to 4:2:0