On 2 Feb 2007 at 16:09, Andrew Stiller wrote: > On Feb 2, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > > > On 2/2/07, Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> however, the distribution of colors looks really bad--as if he had > >> some horrible skin disease. All the other pics at my website are > >> JPEGs, and they all look fine. > >> > >> What's going on here, and what can I do about it? > > > > Sounds like you have compressed the image too much. What software > > application do you use to edit your photographs? > > No, the problem begins to appear at any reduction, and becomes more > severe the more the pic is reduced. I use Claris Home Page to edit the > dimensions.
That sounds like you're changing the display size without resizing the source graphic. That is, you have, say, a 400x600 graphic and you're setting it's height and width settings in the image link to something less than that. The browser will resize on the fly to the size you give, but no browser that I know of has as good an on-the- fly resizing algorithm as even the cheapest graphics program, which resamples the image to resize it. If this is what you're doing, you're reducing display quality while getting no benefit from having your users download a smaller file. You need to resize the source graphic in a graphics program, and one that is able to resample well. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
