Figure 22-8:About to decompress a zip (Freelance web design) file (extract
Figure 22-8:About to decompress a zip file (extract the files from it) The extracted file(s) open in Windows Explorer on your screen. Those are normal files that you can open by double-clicking. If you click the Up buttoninExplorer s toolbar, or choose View.Go To.Up One Level from Explorer smenu bar, you ll be taken to the parent of the files, where you ll see the iconfor the uncompressed file. Its icon will be a normal folder icon, as in Figure22-9. You can delete the zip file once you have the extracted files on hand. Youwon t really need the zip file anymore, unless you just want to keep it asabackup. Figure 22-9:Use the extracted files in the regular folder. You can delete the zip file if you like. Weird Compression FactsZip files aren t the only way to shrink large files. They re not even the best way. Sometimes, you can get a lot more compression just by changing the file type. For example, I recently downloaded some pictures from the Hubble Telescopesite (www.hubble.com). They were mostly huge bitmap (.bmp) files. The largestone came in at a hefty 55,000K, a trivial amount of disk space but definitely onthe large size for one photograph. Out of curiosity, I packed it into a zip file. Thezip file ended up being about 18,000K, a considerable amount of compression. Next, I opened the original bitmap file in a graphics program and saved it asaJPEG file. (Choose File.Save As from the graphics program s file menu. Choose JPEG form the Save As Type drop-down list in the Save As dialog box.) When I looked at the JPEG image, it was about 1,200KB much smaller thanthe compressed bitmap image. Folder containingextracted filesOriginalzip file510Part
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