Re: PNG files in a website

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looks a better than before but still fuzzy.

try to keep your conversions/changes to a minimum...work in a non-lossy format until you're happy with the image, then the last thing you do is optimize and save it as a jpg

I don't use PhotoDraw so can't help you with that.


"Randy Morgan" <rmorgan1016@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e%23NdP4niFHA.708@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Actually, that was a JPG. I've been messing around some more and found
| somebody who said you're using PhotoDraw you need to save to a BMP and
| then "manually" convert to JPG (whatever that means). I saved from MIX
| to BMP and used IrfanView to convert to JPG and it looks substantially
| better, I think.
|
| It might be time to wean my wife from PhotoDraw to Photoshop.
|
| I appreciate you taking a look at it. Thanks!
|
| Randy Morgan
|
| Rob Giordano (Crash Gordon®) wrote:
| > You mean the guy in the upper right hand corner?...yep fuzzy. Use a JPG.
| >
| > PNGs never really caught on I guess. The few times I've tried them I wasn't happy with results.
| >
| > I stick to jpgs for photo images, gifs for graphics...mainly although I've crossed the line many times, just depends on situ.
| >
| >
| > "Randy Morgan" <rmorgan1016@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OnqHeYniFHA.1248@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > | I'm interested in opinions as to whether PNG files are adequately
| > | supported in today's primary browsers. (This isn't a programming
| > | question -- yet.)
| > |
| > | I (my wife, actually) is having a heck of a time getting good image
| > | quality for the banner graphic in either JPG or GIF format. She's using
| > | MS PhotoDraw 2000, and while it looks great as a MIX file a digital
| > | photo within the graphic degrades (gets fuzzy) when she saves to one of
| > | the other two formats.
| > |
| > | When, however, she saves to PNG it looks great. In researching the
| > | compatibility of PNG files and web browers I find that most of the
| > | information I find is at least a year old.
| > |
| > | So, while I realize this is not a graphics forum, it IS packed with
| > | webmasters, so I'm looking for opinions: Would you be comfortable using
| > | PNG files on your pages?
| > |
| > | If the concensus is "no", then I'm on to my programming question: How
| > | would I set up the pages to detect whether their browswer will handle
| > | PNGs well and then download the JPG or GIF if it doesn't? I have the
| > | banner in its own page, which I put into a layout cell at the top of
| > | each page on the site using Insert - Web Component - Included Content -
| > | Page.
| > |
| > | If it's possible to detect using JavaScript whether the browser will
| > | work with PNGs, I guess I could have a duplicate of each page with the
| > | JPG included instead of the PNG for those that don't, but that would be
| > | a pain. I'd rather swap the image, if that's possible. And, I realize
| > | that not everybody has JavaScript enabled on their brower, but if they
| > | don't they've got bigger problems on my site than fuzzy graphics.
| > |
| > | Or, am I nuts and it's not that fuzzy? If you like, go to
| > | www.leonardforiowa.com and tell me if I'm worrying about nothing.
| > |
| > | Thanks,
| > |
| > | --
| > | Randy Morgan
.

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