question for jeremy gurney...

From: chubbybob <bob_at_...>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:21:24 +0100

Hi Jez
   heheheh as my dad said many years ago never volunteer.. however since you
have admitted knowledge may I please search your brain for knowledge. I am a
computer illiterate.. I do lots of picture work for games because not
having opponents I game via PBEM.. Mainly I draw my own stuff to avoid
resizing problems.. However every now and then i find some fairly gorgeous
graphics that i would love to include in games .. problem with this is that
the PBEM programs use small images with a maximum of 256 colours. The net
result of scanning multi colour images is not bad. I use coral draw 8.. The
problem starts when you first resize. I use Lview pro.. This results in a
wishy image as the program drops bits and ruins the careful colour blending
of the printed work.. The next problem comes with importing the multi
colour scan into a 256 colour environment.. the end result is an amorphous
blob infinitely inferior to my own amatuer graphics..
               So questions..
1) Can you recommend any methods of avoiding these pitfalls
2) you said that word was particularly bad at resizing.. can you suggest
anything that would do the job better..

     If you cannot help don't worry I realise that most people like to leave
their jobs behind when they go homw so please igfnore any offense may
presumption on your time may have given.. however if you could see your way
round to helping I would be very grateful...
This may not be of interest to other groupies so if you want to reply off
line mail me on bobd_at_...

          Bob DeAngelis
----- Original Message -----
From: <jeremygurney_at_...>
To: <netepic_at_egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday 9 de January de 2001 10:53
Subject: [NetEpic ML] Re: Army cards: graphics help


> --- 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)
>
>
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