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Image compression #57

Closed mckennapsean closed 6 years ago

mckennapsean commented 6 years ago

Depends on #54.

Compressed all publication & people images. I inspected each image, and the quality was near-identical for all of them, but the file sizes were much reduced. This will speed up page loading and lighten the repository.

Publications: 12.4 MB --> 3.93 MB People: 1.01 MB --> 564 KB

I updated my recommended image compression tool (PNG), based on comparing several results. It looks like Carolina may have used that same one for her profile picture as well (Git found no change).

As a note, a few people have PNG profile pictures. These are larger, since PNG is not optimized for these photo styles of images. Converting their (earlier uncompressed) pictures to JPG will reduce their size some more. The readme does instruct to use JPG still.