The graphics don't loko altogther crisp and clean to me. Can anyone suggest why, and if its Me that's at fault, or the program?!

See www.travel-experience.net : all those small photos are re-sized, and saved as JPG 75%; plus the Headlines are also made in the software programme and saved as JPG 75%. Especially these headlines loko less than crips to me ... am I right?

If by headlines you are talking about the column labels you might try saving them as gif format.

Paula B

I think the problem is the format - you have saved these images as jpgs and they really should be gifs.

I doubt if a programme called 'photo' anything is ideal for making these sort of images, though I am unfamiliar with the one you mention. Do you have Image Composer? If you have FP2000 it should be on the second disc. I don't know if it shipped with FP2002. If you do have a go with it, it is pretty good at gifs.

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Katherine

InKK Design
LinKKs - Kilkenny's Online Magazine

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Yes, I do have Image Composer ... though for some reason it does not list all my fonts (even though theyare all stored i the same place on my hard drive) ... and (naturally!) it does not give me the font that I want!

This Arc Soft programme does not have an option to save a GIF (only TIF).

If that does not do the trick I would save the files as tifs in your current programme and then open them in IC and save as gifs from there. That should work, though it's a bit unwieldy. Whatever you do don't put tifs on your site!

There is a link here showing you how to save great quality gifs in IC - it seems complicated as opposed to the normal 'save for the web' method but it is really easy once you go through it once or twice (following the instructions MINUTELY) and it gives you tiny files with a really crisp appearance.

http://www.demitrius.com/mic/savgif.shtml

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Katherine

InKK Design
LinKKs - Kilkenny's Online Magazine

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"Dogs have owners, cats have staff!"

Thanks,
Paula B

Quite often with a photograph the number of colours is so great that you end up saving as a gif using the maximum number of colours available in order to get the quality you need. In this case the gif file may be larger than a jpg of the same image. You really need to experiment and find out what works best for an individual image.

I think though that you will probably find that for many photos jpg is still best.

What this sort of procedure does demonstrate though is how much IC can do - it is, inspite of what a lot of people think - a fully 'grown up' graphics programme. I have Photoshop and Fireworks also but I keep going back to IC as it does most everything I need to do more rapidly and in a more straightforward way than either of them. Occasionally when I look at the help or tutorial files to do something in one of them that i have been doing forever in IC I am amazed at how complex they make it. I think it is an awful pity that IC is not being developed anymore.
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Katherine

InKK Design
LinKKs - Kilkenny's Online Magazine

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"Dogs have owners, cats have staff!"

[This message has been edited by abbeyvet (edited 10-31-2001).]

Paula