Hi, I have a course with loads of screenshots in it and the overall course file size is huge. I will work with the graphic designers to reduce the original file sizes. However, what is the reason for including an ‘original’ and ‘uploaded’ version of the file when they are both the same file? I’ve …

@BarryBPS uploaded.png is the original file you upload and will never be amended by Evolve. The file original.png does get modified if you crop the image use Evolve’s ‘image crop’ functionality. Note that although uploaded.png exists in the course .zip file when you publish, it will never get down…

One method would be to use an online tool to compress your images before inclusion, e.g., https://imagecompressor.com/ An alternate solution that I’ve had much better results with would be to host the images elsewhere, e.g., AWS S3 Bucket or HubSpot, etc., and then link to them using that functiona…

Hi unique, Thank you for the suggestion of hosting the images elsewhere. I’ve never actually done this due to the additional cost but I’ll take another look at it. In the meantime, I’ll compress the source images. Cheers :slight_smile:

Not in this case Andy, but thanks for the suggestion. I use SVG when I can but this course is full of screenshots. I’m wondering now if Evolve was the best tool for this course. Nothing against Evolve which is my go-to tool, but I think another tool may have been better for this systems-based train…

Hi Matt, this is really helpful. One of the things I love about Evolve is that you can import any course back into it. And it’s good to know that the uploaded.png is what keeps the image files intact. I used Photoshop to convert the PNGs to 8-bit and that has done the trick. Many thanks, Barry

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Hi Barry, I will chase that up and find out.
Cheers-Sam

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