Another problem I’m having is that I cannot get a graduation on this page - http://www.brutontown.co.uk/test.html - I’m using ‘Graphic Converter’ and have followed what has been written before. Made a graphic between 1px & 25px wide with a legnth of the page & 72dpi and all I get is a very jagged image when loaded in the Freeway page. I have saved images as a gif, jpeg & png all with the same results.
What am I doing wrong???
Regards
Lee
PS I don’t have a copy of Photoshop, only a copy of Photoshop Elements v2 for Windows.
It looks as though you are saving this GIF with very few colors and
no dither. Also, it appears as though your gradient is at some kind
of an angle. I don’t have a recent copy of GraphicConverter here,
just a really old version that came bundled with my computer. I can’t
see any way to make a gradient with it, but I can see you managed
somehow.
When you first create your image, try opening it as a Millions of
Colors type image, not a 256 colors image, then when you save it, you
can experiment with different compression modalities. For something
with as subtle a transition as you have here, you might get the best
mileage out of JPEG. If you have some way to add a slight amount of
random color noise to the gradient, that will help disguise the steps
between colors, too.
Walter
On Feb 12, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Gray Owl wrote:
Hi All
Another problem I’m having is that I cannot get a graduation on
this page - brutontown.co.uk - I’m using
‘Graphic Converter’ and have followed what has been written before.
Made a graphic between 1px & 25px wide with a legnth of the page &
72dpi and all I get is a very jagged image when loaded in the
Freeway page. I have saved images as a gif, jpeg & png all with the
same results.
What am I doing wrong???
Regards
Lee
PS I don’t have a copy of Photoshop, only a copy of Photoshop
Elements v2 for Windows.
I just had another thought here. Try using Freeway to make your gradient for you. If you have Freeway Pro, simply make a new page in your document. Make it as tall as you want your gradient image to be. Draw a new graphic box on the page, and then use the Fill Master Action to create your gradient. Select the start and end color you like, and set the angle to 270 or -90. With the box selected, choose File > Export from the main menu, choose your desired image format, and Bob’s your uncle.
Sometime around 12/2/08 (at 21:17 -0500) waltd said:
I just had another thought here. Try using Freeway to make your
gradient for you. If you have Freeway Pro, simply make a new page in
your document. Make it as tall as you want your gradient image to
be. Draw a new graphic box on the page, and then use the Fill Master
Action to create your gradient. Select the start and end color you
like, and set the angle to 270 or -90. With the box selected, choose
File > Export from the main menu, choose your desired image format,
and Bob’s your uncle.
I was about to suggest this exact thing!
I use this technique a lot; Freeway can be a surprisingly good tool
for simple graphics generation.
Just remember to put the file type suffix (.gif, .jpg, etc.) after
the name, as Freeway doesn’t do this for you.
If this is the kind of background you’re talking about, this is a 1 pixel wide by 1200 pixels deep photoshop file. Set to tile horizontally in FW. I made it in InDesign, and copied it into Photoshop. Save file for the web.
Sometime around 13/2/08 (at 08:12 -0500) dhrose said:
If this is the kind of background you’re talking about, this is a 1
pixel wide by 1200 pixels deep photoshop file. Set to tile
horizontally in FW. I made it in InDesign, and copied it into
Photoshop. Save file for the web.
It is best to use graphics that are somewhat wider than 1px (or
taller, for vertically tiling items) for two very good reasons.
One, it is much easier to see what’s going on and how something will
look if you deal with a graphic that’s 20px or so wide (or tall…)
rather than just 1px.
Two, browsers find it harder work to tile something that many times.
A one-pixel-wide graphic will need to be repeated many hundreds of
times to fill an average-sized window. A graphic that’s 20px wide
will just need to be tiled a few dozen at most. This really does make
life easier for the browser!
I just had another thought here. Try using Freeway to make your gradient for you. If you have Freeway Pro, simply make a new page in your document. Make it as tall as you want your gradient image to be. Draw a new graphic box on the page, and then use the Fill Master Action to create your gradient. Select the start and end color you like, and set the angle to 270 or -90. With the box selected, choose File > Export from the main menu, choose your desired image format, and Bob’s your uncle.
Walter
Thanks Walter & Keith for that tip. It worked. Go back and have a look now - brutontown.co.uk - Looks COOL, as the young one’s say.