One of the most important things in web design is designing a site that will load quickly. You don’t want a website that takes forever to load. In order to have a fast site you need to limit your images and size them down as much as possible. That can be easily done in fireworks.

Follow the steps below to decrease the file size of an image. First you will need to open fireworks. Once fireworks is open follow the steps below.

Step 1 - Click File / Open

Step 2 - Find the image that you want to decrease the filesize on. Once you have located the file, click open.

Step 3 - Click the scale tool in the tool bar and size the image down to the size you want it.

Step 4 - Click File / Export Preview. The Export Preview dialog box will appear.

Step 5 - In the left window you will see your image. At the top of the image you will see JPEG - Quality 80 (or some number) - The size of the image and how long it takes to load it. Over to the right you will see Format and Quality. Choose your format and bring the quality
down some. I usually drop it to about 60 and use a JPEG format. Keep an eye on your image, you don’t want to make it look faded or terrible looking. Once you have sized it down, click Export.

Step 6 - Save your image to the location of your choice.

That is all you have to do to decrease the size of an image.