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A few weeks ago I stepped down from my position of moderator at photoshopforums.com to focus on other things including writing and recording more tutorials for this site. During my 27 months at PhotoshopForums.com I wrote 13 quick-fire tutorials for the Tutorials and Featured Tips section, some of them, I'm pleased to say, receiving over 5000 views. |
avatar, free, image size command, Output, photoshop elements 8, resample, resize, resolution, save, signature, Web Design, Tips & Tricks
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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First off, when you read you’re going to be learning how to prepare an exactly sized web graphic you should know that I’m referring to size as in size of the file, not size as in dimensions. There are many instances where this may be necessary - ranging from uploading photographs to a social networking site to uploading an avatar or signature for an online forum that stipulates a maximum file size.
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Commands / Tools, Creative, download, free, high quality, Manipulation, Output, paypal, Photographic, site blog, Special Effects, Text Effects
Today 3photoshop.com announces our new premium download service making the popular video series ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Photoshop Elements’ available for download at the bargain price of £7.99. Here are the advantages of purchasing it-
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The GIF format was introduced in 1987 and contains one eight-bit channel of data giving it the ability to reproduce up to 256 colours at any one time from a palette of 16.8 million. This means that although a GIF is no good for saving continuous tone imagery such as photographs, it is extremely well suited to images that contain large blocks of colour such as logos and line art. The advantage of saving so few colours is found in the sharpness of detail and the ability to keep file sizes low.
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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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A quick look at Photoshop's native file format - the awesome PSD file! Capable of saving all the elements of a Photoshop document, including layers, colour settings, alpha channels, live text and much, much more, the PSD format is the ultimate safety net in Photoshop's high flying world!
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Here we'll look at the difference between resampling an image and resizing it. If you're a regular to the Image Size Dialogue Box then watching this tutorial is a must. If you're scaling a photograph to send by email, or wanting to add more pixels to your image, working out the best method to keep the job practical, and the results effective, is essential.
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compression, free, gif, guide to file formats, JPEG, lossless, optimize, Output, photoshop cs2, PNG, save, web, video tutorial
The PNG-8 and PNG-24 formats are ofter compared to the GIF and JPEG formats respectively, in this tutorial we'll look at where this is a fair comparison - and when it's not!
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aldus, archive, compression, free, guide to file formats, lossless, lossy, lzw compression, Output, photoshop cs2, save, tiff, video tutorial
The Tagged Image File Format is a great way to apply loseless compression to an image. Thanks to it's popularity within the world of graphic design and image editing, the TIFF file has become a common format for achiving and even short term storage. In this tutorial we'll look at how a TIFF file can be used along side Adobe Photoshop.
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