RE: Img Borders

At 01:25 AM 11/06/00 -0700, you wrote:
>It's me again -
>sorry for not putting up the URL.
>Keep in mind that I just began working on this page tonight - so there are=
 a
>few other things screwy with the layout - but I am working on those right
>now and am ok with them. Just that annoying little border.
>Anyway - the URL is:
>http://www.angelcities.com/members/northwind/index.html

Hi again Craig,

As I suspected, your gray border was part of the image itself.  I sent you=
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a new copy saved as gif with a transparent background and that border=20
removed.  In general you should keep in mind that images that are comprised=
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of mostly large areas of solid color,  line art or text are better saved as=
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GIF and that the JPG format is better suited to photographic images or=20
images with complex gradients or thousands or millions of colors.  Your=20
image in this case is a good example of an image better exported as=20
GIF.  You might want to re-export it to GIF from your original file created=
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in Fireworks, Photoshop, PSP or whatever as it will probably come out=20
crisper and cleaner than the one I made for you from your JPG.  The GIF=20
format is loss less and file size reduction comes from reducing the number=
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of colors as opposed to the lossy compression method of JPEGs that discards=
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image data in order to reduce file size.  Text quickly becomes blurry in=20
JPG images while it remains crisp in GIFs

HTH!

St=E9phane Bergeron

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