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can someone help with exporting please?
Hi guys,
not sure if this is the place to post. Please move if not.
I have designed a web banner for my website in Corel Draw 12. I have then exported it as a Jpeg & as a PNG but the quality doesn’t look very good. Any other ideas of how to keep the image crisp?
I have exported at 300 then went upto 450 with nothing improving.
Paul
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Doesn’t sound like it’s a problem with the way you are saving it Paul.
I’m not expert on the web but that is what I do and it works fine….I think anyway.
All the images here are done that way…. http://www.clonesfilmfestival.com -
Try exporting it as a giff or a tiff, as for resolution there is not really any point going above 72 dpi as this is normal screen resolution and anything bigger will just take longer to load.
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Save the file to the actual size you will be using on the site, as resizing can alter the jaggies. Are you using anti-alaising??
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quote Graeme Harrold:Are you using anti-alaising??
Say more Graeme??????
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Agree with above – make the graphic the actual size you want it to be, then export as a JPEG at 300dpi resolution and it should look fine
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quote Harry Cleary:quote Graeme Harrold:Are you using anti-alaising??
Say more Graeme??????
I normally deselect this on export as it smooths the edges by adding subtle pixel shading. this can sometimes look rough. If the orginal graphic is crisp, why mess with it on export. :lol1:
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Probably a dumb question, I am not so hot with web stuff, but how big is a webpage?
I mean if I design a bitmap on an A4 base and then export to a web page the design comes in more than twice as large as I want, leading me to assume that a webpage is less than A5… 🙄
As I said, am pretty thick and easily confused on web stuff…Ian :lol1:
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i make my banners in flash, the size is 468×60 pixels and it is saved as a swf. file which is then uploaded onto the website. can you not publish to the web in coreldraw? 😀
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find the exact size of the image you need to create for the web page.
this will most likely to be in pixels as opposed to inches, cm, mm…design the image at the live size at around 150dpi. this will keep things crisp and not create such a big file for page loads.
what you need to keep in mind is you want small sized images without compromising the quality. we view the Internet at 75dpi so 150dpi being double required should be over kill if nothing else.
i have designed allot of images and 75dpi but i have found that by increasing it some then saving it does appear to sharpen things a little.
i also prefer to use .jpg files as opposed to .gif because again, the quality is that bit better, but the down side is the file size is bigger.
Its something you should be conscious of when designing for web pages.
UKSB has one of the biggest rankings over any other sign site on the web, yet we still loose allot of points due to the speed our homepage loads. this doesnt just come down to images loading, but it does add to it.in photoshop you can design at live size at the dpi you wish then click save for the web and it auto reduces the images size/quality to be used on the internet. when you click this option of saving it gives you a selection of qualities and file types.
if you are designing an animated image then the best by far is flash as nik says. you can design as an image or in vector format for true sharp images. when saved it reduces the file much smaller than even a gif file.
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quote Robert Lambie:…i also prefer to use .jpg files as opposed to .gif because again, the quality is that bit better, but the down side is the file size is bigger….I’ve always thought it would be the other way round Rob. Small JPGs for me tend to be a little fuzzy and can go horrible if over compressed for web use due to the ‘articles’ generated. Not had that with GIFs.
Dave
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Ive started using Png for some files. The load interlaced, therefore giving the viewer an instant feeling of something loading. Cant stand sites that you have to wait for images to download.
I tend to design a page thats 800 pixels wide and center it. Therefore when viewed on a wide screen it centers, but on a normal aspect is the right size without being squeezed. I also try to create a page that fits on a single screen, but never more than 3 screens down (600 to 1800 pixels deep) :lol1:
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