On 10/24/07, carol irvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i too have found myself using pngs a lot more than jpgs and for the same > reason. the image came in as > a jpg though, i went ahead and worked with it as a jpg. however, i too > would have preferred tackling > it as a png file. my absolute first choice would be a tif but it was given > in the problem that a tif was out.
In this case - the "problem JPEG" - re-saving as JPEG would only produce more of the same artifacts that were causing grief to the engraver. As a designer I frequently deal with this scenario: "Hi, we need X printed on Y and it needs to be Z feet tall. All I have is this (crappy) JPEG (or fax, doc, ppt, etc)". I try this: 1. is it a corporation? is the logo on brandsoftheworld.com? 2. do they have vector artwork on their web page (hidden in a PDF, etc)? 3. is it just a font? can "what the font" figure it out? 4. can I salvage it in GIMP (or PS) or Inkscape? 5. redo it :( Regardless of the solution, the format chosen to save my work in is up to me - just because I was _given_ a JPEG, there's no reason for me to _save_ it as JPEG later. Sorry, this turned into a bit of a rant.... I guess all I was trying to say is that you're not locked into saving as a JPEG just because that's all the client has to offer :) Chris _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
