Dogman.....can you give some graphics help?

[rfrink]

How did you make your avatar so crisp and clear? It looks like it is a cropping of the image in your banner...then resized...? But very sharp detail for such a small image! ...or did I miss the boat here?



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I've tried this using paintshop pro and my results are very grainy, fuzzy and just plain crappy looking. I've cropped a section from an original image, then resized it to 50X50.....with unsatisfactory results. Any professional tips? jpg, gif, 70 dpi, compression settings...? UGH! I hate learning new software:barf: !

Sincere Thanks!
Rob Frink

 

[dogman]

Same source image, but I made two completely different images. The avatar is not a crop of the banner. Then, of course, I had to put some of the mojo in there

 

[dogman]

P.S.

Start with your source photo and reduce it down to a size larger than your final desired image, e.g, for a 50x50 final image, reduce your pic to 75x75 or 100x100...make it enough so when you do your final 50x50, you can crop the exact part you want and have it fill the image. I use Photoshop, so I could not tell you exact PSP techniques.

 

[primos]

Rob,
Are you using PSP 7.0? If so, don't use the "Save As..." function. Use "File/Export/JPEG Optimizer...". With the optimizer, you can set the compression level and see exactly how the compressed image will look before saving it.

72 DPI is fine for web images. The generally accepted rule of thumb is that the optimum DPI for the display on Macs is 72, and the optimum DPI for the display on Windows based machines is 96 DPI. Setting a higher DPI won't make the image any clearer on a display. The very high DPI settings are for printed output rather that computer displays.

 

[rfrink]

Terry,
I'm using a shareware paintshop pro 4.0. It does not have the export feature that you mentioned. I found a preference window to set the save as attrubutes. I set them at 70 dpi and I played around with the compression value.....

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