Website Help.. . .
 

I'm doing a website (Re-Doing) And I'm trying to make it look better, by using my newly aquired Photoshop 7.0. I made the Background where the text would be ontop of, however, I have problems when I place the text over it (I do it in Photoshop as well). It looks bluury when saved. I'm wondering if there's a way to make it not so blurry. And like I said, I am -NEW- to photoshop, so I would probably need at least a bit of broken down help if you tell me commands to do. The attachment is of the 'index' of sorts.

I've done a bit of editing, but I'm still not adding the text yet, until I can get some pointers. The link to it is...

Here.

Tell me what you think so far, and give me some pointers, they would be much appreciated.

i think its blurry because your saving it as a .jpg

maybe try saving it as a better file format like .png.

i had the same problem when using jpgs, then one day, i saved it as .png and it was really clear, but i wasn't using photoshop, so it may no be the case for you

Rather than 1 iamge, break it up into 3 images.

and...if all else should fail... try .bmp!

But before you do something like that: with some formats, you can change the quality level (at least I think so)

[(Hamylde)]

Opening up the jpg and re-saving as a .png will not help (I'm not sure whether you did that or not). As soon as the file is saved as a jpg a lot of the crispness/clarity is lost and cannot be brought back by changing file format. Create the image in photoshop and then save as a png. Also try messing about with text anti-aliasing settings to help make it look sharper. Less anti-aliasing should = sharper

Hmm, I had no idea so much image quality was lost from the .png to .jpg conversion. How about to .bmp? Same thing?

Doing some tests here on my computer, I can't really notice any image quality loss going to .bmp, but they're fscking huge. No compression...is there a compressed bmp format?

BMPs are raw image data. The file format does not provide for compression. It is the image equivalent of WAV. PNG will provide quality equal to BMP, as it uses a lossless compression scheme. PNG also allows for lossy compression, though. For web graphics, a lot of image quality can be sacrificed without the end user worrying. After all, everything is always displayed on a monitor, allowing you to keep dpi ranges from 75 to 96 without any trouble. Most graphics can also be saved at 8bit or less without too much noticeable quality loss. I prefer using an adaptive color palette.

There's a nice little feature in Photoshop that everyone seems to forget. It's called 'Save for Web'. This function will make your .jpg or .gif file optimized for web use. It makes the files smaller and eliminates the fuzzyness.

I find that the same option in PSP creates smaler files at the same level of qulaity.

Quite odd what a great feature that is and how few people use it.

I use it all the time. It's the only way to properly configure PNG settings. I still need to pngcrush afterwards though :hang: