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Loss4Words
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Blurry Graphics - 9/22/2001 23:10:00
First of all, my thanks to Nancy for your suggestions. I am working on my first page, and I think that by using the tables, I have properly positioned the lay-out of the images. I have reduced the sizes of the graphics, and have added alternate text so that the pointer knows where it is going to link if it selects a certain picture.
My problem; on the opening page of the site, the Heading (by this I mean the title of the page, where you see the ABC123.....and the little logo of the girl with the clouds as a background), looks nice. The bottom box, (copyright looks "different"). If you click on the first photo; the Red Carpet holder, you will be linked to a page called ABOUT ABC; why is the Heading on that page so blurry, and why is the information box on that page so blurry? I used Microsoft PhotoDraw to create both; (the Heading in the index page and the ABOUT ABC page) Why is one looking alright, and the other one so ugly? Can someone look at it and give me suggestions? You can see it at www.abc123montessori.com.Again, I thank you Nancy, and hope that someone can help me further with my questions.
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Michael
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RE: Blurry Graphics - 9/22/2001 23:51:00
All of the images in question are .jpg format. Nothing wrong with that, but if during the process of creating these images you saved them and reopened at a later date to further edit them, they will lose some quality. That is the nature of the .jpg format: it allows for more colors as opposed to the .gif format, but it is considered to be a "lossy" format. Simply put, every time you open and edit a .jpg image it loses some quality. Think of it as creating a new generation of a xerox copy: every subsequent open/edit/close reduces quality. The .gif format does not suffer from this.Of course, if you didn't open/edit/close one image more than another, it's hard to say. I'm not sure how your graphics app handles compression of .jpg images, if you can control that compression, etc. ------------------
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Jego
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RE: Blurry Graphics - 9/22/2001 14:51:00
I think you need to play around with your graphics program a bit. As Michael said, particularly look at how (or not as the case may), it's compressing your graphics. I know you don't want to hear this, but your pics are very large (file sizes) and take a very long time to download. As a surfer, I wouldn't wait for them...I'd be gone. On the About ABC page, having your text as a graphic, while I know that it "looks" nice, slows things down more. It's about 89KB...just that one box. Also, the saying a "picture is worth a thousand words", in the case of Search Engines, this just ain't so. They will not "see" any text to search through. Some people search the web with their graphics "off"...in which case, they'd see nothing on this page. Have a look at your graphics program's options when you actually "save" something. There should be a function for compression. Experiment with that until you get an acceptable compromise between pic quality and file size. Jego
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MJ
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RE: Blurry Graphics - 9/23/2001 14:50:00
Also right click on your image in FP and look at the properties. FP automatically saves all JPG images at 75% of the compression you have already achieved. There will be a compression box on the right, alter it to read 100%. However, you will have to import your original graphic again into FP, overwriting the one there as FP would have reduced it to 75%. Then make sure you always change FP's compression to 100 before saving the graphic, not at a later date. The quality difference is quite considerabel.
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cbarton
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RE: Blurry Graphics - 9/30/2001 19:21:00
MJ, I think that FP keeps the graphic saved in 100% quality but will show it and publish it in a compressed state (if you've chosen to compress the image). Therefore you don't have to import the images AGAIN. Just change the compression to 100% and the images will look as they should. Many times I've forgotten to change the compression to 100% only to have to go back into picture properties after viewing the page.FYI, FP2002 uses 90% compression (not 75% as in earlier versions) as its default....I wish they'd just leave it as 100% !!!
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