I have drawn a oval graphic box and placed an image in it. Image is larger than oval. After publishing I noticed that the edges of the clipped image are a bit jagged. I could trace the rough edges back to the path of the oval tool. Does anyone know how to make the edges smoother for the oval graphic, or should I just use a third party graphic to create clip out the oval portion of an image?
I’ve noticed the same thing on the site I’m creating. I don’t have an answer for you, but if my example can help lead to a solution, I’ll throw my hat in also. The oval graphic is visible on all the active pages of this site: http://www.flowersongherbals.com/
Look at the water drop oval below the leaf image. Because of the gradient, the jagged edges aren’t awful, but I’d rather they be smooth.
Good luck finding a solution for your site lemuelj!
I think I will have to use an external program such as Pixelmator to create the oval. Also it has been suggested that you can create it using shape mask in Pages
I usually apply a stroke (border) to circular graphics and make sure thats it’s set to ‘inside’ from within the inspector pallet. Make sure it’s a layer and also a PNG with colours set to millions.
Should do the trick if it’s the issue I think you’re having.
That looks considerably better. Thank you! At first I didn’t notice any change, but when I changed the stroke to be 2 px wide it worked a treat!
On a side note, has anyone ever figured out how to change the default behavior of how FW deals with graphics? Even when I drag a png file in, it defaults to jpeg. And it never defaults to millions, which almost always produces better results in my experience.
It’s only two or three extra clicks per image, I realize. But over the course of a large website it adds up.
Thanks for the great tip, Nathan. Lemuelj, I hope this works for you. Thanks for bringing this up as it helped me also!
I’ll give that a try. Thanks, David. I didn’t see anything in that dialogue that would explain why Freeway is taking a file that is originally a png file and transferring it to jpeg, however. Any idea how how to stop it from doing that?
Thanks again,
Doty
On Jan 11, 2012, at 12:26 PM, DeltaDave wrote:
File>Document Setup and under the Graphics Tab set your preferences there.
The stroke being applied works pretty good. I assume that to keep it from looking like there is a border that the color of the stroke is set to match the background color.
Freeway is taking a file that is originally a png file and transferring it to jpeg
FW makes some assumptions when it does this but it cant second guess what your ultimate aim is - the only way for complete control is for you to be aware and check the output settings.