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batch process many images: allows you to send a zip file containing your images. It will returns you your images combined into a sprite, and even better, the CSS code that you'll just have to paste in your main css file. The CSS sprite generator takes a number of source images and combines them into a single "sprite" image and supplies CSS to map to each image within the sprite. The technique this tool employs is often used to improve the performance of a web site by reducing the number of HTTP requests that the client's browser needs to make.

"The "sprite" is the single, combined graphic. We can use this same theory, only instead of using background-image to show the graphic, we can use an image right in the HTML itself (inline image)."

CSS Spriting is a technique for speeding up the load times for your website by reducing the number of HTTP requests for images to the server.

Compass is a stylesheet authoring framework that makes your stylesheets and markup easier to build and maintain. With compass, you write your stylesheets in Sass instead of CSS. Using the power of Sass Mixins and the Compass community, you can apply battle-tested styles from frameworks like Blueprint to your stylesheets instead of your markup.

Check this out. This an amazing tool!