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There are stacks of tutorials on the web that guide you through the process of making signatures and avatars. Most of them focus on the design side of things - how to pull off that effect? How to add this face? How to blend the colours? Considerably fewer detail what I consider to be the technical side of the creation - how to work out the right dimensions? Achieve the right file size? Keep it active and visible on a community? And the mysteries of saving to the right format? In this tutorial I'm going to provide answers to all those technical questions, and others along the way.
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Once you have the perfect image, chances are you’re going to want to show other people your work. Photoshop Elements allows you to do this in a number of ways, whether by printing the image using a local inkjet printer, sending via email or placing on a web site or image hosting service. How you decide to ‘output’ the image will determine how you save it, what format, what quality settings, what size! You’ll need to know how to balance out the quality of the final image and achieve manageable file sizes for your output criteria all at the same time.
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This pixel based tutorial looks specifically at the confusing subject of image size and resolution. Here we'll delve into the image size dialogue box and hit the subject head on.
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