Re: "jaggie" images

Your designer can do the following:

1. Double click layer that contains the text and make sure 
anti-aliasing is on. 2. Image > Mode > RGB
3. Save for web
4. Choose GIF, Adaptive, lowest number of colors that still looks good.

If the designer has Photoshop prior to 5.5, then Save for Web is not 
available and instead will have to save as GIF89a (I think that used 
the Export command under File menu).

Once you receive a GIF, you cannot fix it except by going in by hand 
and painting in pixels to smooth the edges. You can add anti-aliasing 
if you scale the image so ask the designer to send one at 4x the 
final size. Then you can scale and resample.

But best is to have your designer do it. Tell the designer that there 
are many great articles on preparing graphics for the web and it's 
not very hard -- I recommend the Adobe website, webmonkey, cnet.com, 
and lynda.com.
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Subject: "jaggie" images
Author: Noteworthy Web Designs
Date: 2/22/01 8:26 AM -0600

>I've asked this before, but I can't find the original answer, and I
>can't find it in the archives! I have a site in which the logo has very
>"jaggy", rough edges to the font. I've tried to correct it, and the
>graphics designer has tried (but she doesn't have much experience in web
>graphics, and I don't have much more when it comes to tricks). The font
>is in italics, and the customer would really like to use it because he
>wants to trademark it. The images (in two different formats) are found
>at:
>http://www.orientalrugcleaners.com/tempindex_gif.htm and
>same domain/tempindex_jpg.htm. (This really looks bad, because the red
>isn't really web-friendly in this format).
>Someone had told me a way to fix this in Photoshop. I now have
>Photoshop5 LE, so if anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it. I'm
>truly about ready to wrap this one up after three months, and am more
>than ready to!!
>
>--
>Karen Stafford
>Noteworthy Web Designs
>"Websites Composed with Jazz"
>Web Design,Hosting,Search Promotion
>http://www.noteworthydesigns.com

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