Re: [wdvltalk] Picture question

2007-01-31 Thread Franni Vincent
I guess there's little you can do about the decor in the view of the restaurant, talk about 'busy'... but one thing I can suggect is blowing the dust off the photos before you scan, plus taking some glass/window cleaner on a soft cloth polishing the scanner bed. Both will help leave you

RE: [wdvltalk] Picture question

2007-01-31 Thread Cheryl Wise
Sunshine - you have sunshine? I'm so jealous. I'm trying to decide if I want to put on some boots and head off to Starbucsk (I'd rather head to the pub but then I really would not get any work done) or throw some logs I the fireplace and move over near it. BTW, its good to see you posting again.

Re: [wdvltalk] Picture question

2007-01-31 Thread Hoenig, Robert
Has anyone had experience using SwishMax for creating flash files? I've got a couple clients looking for flash websites but I don't have the money or the knowledge to buy flash. As much as I want to learn it I don't have the time. Any recommendations on SwishMax or any other Flash creation

RE: [wdvltalk] Picture question

2007-01-31 Thread Cheryl Wise
SwishMas has a much, much lower learning curve than Flash but I would be doing my best to talk any client of mine out of a Flash website. Using Flash for extra bits is one thing but a full Flash site unless they are willing to pay for full accessible Flash (something that has a much steeper

RE: [wdvltalk] Picture question

2007-01-30 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
If the images are pixelated it's more than likely you've had to scale up the images to get them that big - what was your original source? Digital cameras don't shoot as big as 5 x 7 300dpi so you've pretty much doubled (or even tripled) the size of the file to fit the dimensions, which will cause

Re: [wdvltalk] Picture question

2007-01-30 Thread Portman
Thank you! I appreciate the help. Riva Ross Clutterbuck wrote: If the images are pixelated it's more than likely you've had to scale up the images to get them that big - what was your original source? Digital cameras don't shoot as big as 5 x 7 300dpi so you've pretty much doubled (or even

Re: [wdvltalk] Picture question

2007-01-30 Thread Franni Vincent
Hi all, A client of mine is doing a promo and asked me to get the digital part ready for her. They want 1 - 3 pictures in jpeg format, 5 x 7 x 300dpi. I chose pictures, resized them to 5 x 7 inches and 300 dpi but got a message that they were very contrasty and pixelated - any ideas as to

Re: [wdvltalk] Picture question

2007-01-30 Thread Franni Vincent
hi Riva, If you have the original photos, you shouldn't have a problem - no, scratch that, your ONLY prob should be the quality of the photos I recall only too clearly having to remove in photoshop the litter which a client was too stupid/idle to sweep away before taking the photo

Re: [wdvltalk] Picture question

2007-01-30 Thread Portman
Okay. I posted the pics online here: http://www.starqualitydesigns.com/testpics.htm. I put the actual sized pictures below with smaller versions on top so you can see what I am aiming for. I realize that I need to clean up the background in them but any other feedback would be appreciated.