--- In netepic_at_egroups.com, Peter Ramos <primarch_at_b...> wrote:
> My question to all those computer gurus out there, is there a way
around
> this problem? Is there a format I can save them in that is small and
has
> no "graniness"? Up to now I have used MS paint (bleh!) and adobe
> photoshop. Any tips?
Peter,
I mess with this kind of stuff for a living, here are a few tips.
Jpeg's give pretty good compression, and fairly good image quality
too. If the image is grainy then :-
a) Make sure that the image you're creating in photoshop is as close
to the size that it will be used on the card, otherwise Word, or
whatever you're using to make the card, will then have to re-size the
image before use ... and word is not very good at this.
b) If this still doesn't give you an acceptable picture then check the
image settings your using in photoshop, you can do all sorts of things
like change the compression settings when creating a jpeg, you might
have the compression cranked up too high (which gives a small file at
the expense of quality).
Png (portable network graphics) is another format you might try using.
It has fairly good compression but gives slightly larger files than
Jpegs. You shold be able to create these with any recent version of
photoshop.
Bmps will work but as you know - they're huge.
I'd use them in that order of preference (jpeg,png,bmp), the key is
often exporting the image in the right size for use. But as the others
have also asked, can we have them as PDFs as well as DOCs.
Cheers,
Jez (computer guru/geek)
Received on Tue Jan 09 2001 - 09:53:33 UTC