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Here’s a piece I created for an online challenge. The brief was “With a ray gun and a mini skirt,” and I decided to take a 50s feel and update it. I ended up playing against type with the heroine: instead of a diaphanous fainting blonde, I went with black hair and a kick-butt attitude. Done in Adobe Illustrator.
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Here’s a fun one. Cody’s Creations, maker of really nice dog accessories, needed an image for their website. They wanted in a clean, flat color style. So here the result. Click on the image for a larger view.
What you’ll need: A reasonably current copy of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Please note that there may be cosmetic differences in the process for different versions. I’m using Photoshop CS4. And you’ll need a digital photo.
If you aren’t sure why you should pay special attention to how you prepare photos for the Web or are confused by the whole dpi thing, read my Resizing Your Photos for the Web tutorial until you get to the Picasa instructions. Then come back here. If you’ve got Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, you’ll get more control from those programs than you would with Picasa.
I’m often asked “if I’m putting a graphic on the web, it should be JPEG, right?”. Or I see a client has uploaded a TIFF file to their site. Or “I hear PNG is the new Web standard, so I should use that, right?”. So let’s look at Web formats and when you should use them.
There are three basic formats you should use when saving an image for the Web:
The first book from Erik, A Dog a Day Project, is a must for all dog lovers. In 2008, Erik created a new dog every day at the Web site A Dog a Day Project. This book represents the artist's choice of that project, and it's now available from Amazon.