Hi John,
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:48:27 -0800 (PST), John Vertegaal wrote:
> Thanks for your effort and suggestions Steve, to make my pages load
> quicker. New.htm looks just as good on my 14" screen as it did before,
> so I did some minor editing and planned to put it on the web as such.
> Then I started working on the homepage, but the two bottom pictures at
> 150x100 res. took up only 5K ea. and looked terrible even on my screen.
> Now I'm confused. You mentioned 10K for tumbnails. How do you get a
> reasonably sharp picture into a small area? I always assumed that a
> smaller picture automatically sharpened up. Furthermore, you mentioned
> that your example probably was too low res. for a real-life application.
> Because of my small screen I cannot confirm that. But if I go that
> route I have to fall back on my own mangled jpeg to provide the high res.
> option, as I only have ftcolor to crop. This may be the best way to go,
> or do you know of a freely available cropping program? If there would
> be a way to get my onboard video setup working again, I could probably
> use Linux. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
I have found that "re-sizing" the graphic to the exact size specified
in the web page will do the trick best. It will give you exactly the
right size graphic for ther way you want it shown. PictView will do
that nicely (freeware), as will many others.
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke
http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
http://tadpole.aus.as
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