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Photoshop/Website: Ps scaling vs HTML scaling?

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Mar 15, 2026403 views
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What's the difference between scaling an image down to 150px in Photoshop and then using that in HTML: versus Using a 500px image and then using that in HTML: Is there a quality difference?

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<img src="blah.png" />

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Interesting, you almost can't tell the difference these days1. It looks good in Chrome/IE, but Firefox doesn't scale as well. Anyway, to add to Mike's point about bandwidth: Page load time suffers greatly with large images. One image over a T3 would…

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