Some of my graphics are coming in off-size, how should the Photoshop files be formatted?
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Leave them as Tiff format files. Freeway will do all the web format down converting for you based on layout sizing.
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True, TIFF’s are the way to go, but you can always import graphics as pass-through’s so they keep their current look without having to go through another round of compressing by Freeway’s output. By doing so you give up the use of the FAST PACKS so no Photo Magic or any in-Freeway effects can be done.
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Well thanks,
But that’s not what I meant, should the files be actual size at 72 dpi, or actual size at any resolution?
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Well if you’re doing pass-through’s then it’d have to be the actual size at 72DPI. If you want your Freeway document size to be large, but have more control using actions towards your graphics, you could do the actual size at any resolution.
It’s always good practice to either export from Photoshop through the “Save for Web & Devices” and then import the saved file as a pass-through or save them at 72dpi TIFF’s and import them regularly and have control of using the actions.
Your choice.
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On 28 Aug 2008, at 01:18, Chris Poisson wrote:
But that’s not what I meant, should the files be actual size at 72
dpi, or actual size at any resolution?
They should be the size that you want them to appear, in pixels at
72dpi. They can be a little larger, as it won’t hurt if you resize
them in Freeway, providing you don’t try to stick a file in that’s
straight from the camera, unprocessed, ie, seriously big.
best wishes,
Paul Bradforth
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Just to add to this. If your image is 300ppi that’s fine (it will just
import smaller due to the conversion to 72ppi), just resize it in
Freeway and resample.
Alternatively, choose the ignore resolution option in the Import
dialog when you select the image to import.
Hope this helps,
Joe
On 28 Aug 2008, at 08:41, Paul Bradforth wrote:
On 28 Aug 2008, at 01:18, Chris Poisson wrote:
But that’s not what I meant, should the files be actual size at 72
dpi, or actual size at any resolution?They should be the size that you want them to appear, in pixels at
72dpi. They can be a little larger, as it won’t hurt if you resize
them in Freeway, providing you don’t try to stick a file in that’s
straight from the camera, unprocessed, ie, seriously big.best wishes,
Paul Bradforth
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On 28 Aug 2008, at 01:25, Dan J wrote:
t’s always good practice to either export from Photoshop through the
“Save for Web & Devices”
Do bear in mind though that it will strip your metadata, contact
details etc if you do. At least, the older version which was just
called ‘Save for Web’ did.
best wishes,
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Okay, hang on a minute everyone. There’s some good info in this
thread but some important stuff is being left out too.
Yes, TIFF is fine for importing into Freeway. But don’t forget that
Freeway can import native Photoshop files as well, with all layers,
layer styles, text layers, Smart Object layers and so on intact! You
simply do not need to ‘save out’ a version of your image just for
importing. So - if you use Photoshop, use PSD files.
The ‘per-inch’ resolution of a document refers to the default scale
that the image’s pixels will be shown on the page. If your image is
set to 300ppi then it will fill a space in a Freeway page that’s
roughly a quarter of the size of the same image set to 72ppi. That’s
just because the image’s pixel grid is being used smaller on the page.
Like InDesign and QuarkXPress, Freeway pays attention to the output
resolution setting in images, if there is one. This is simply a bit
of info in the file that says what scale the image’s pixel grid
should be. However, Freeway can also ignore this; simply check the
‘Ignore Resolution’ checkbox when importing, as Joe pointed out. Then
the image will be set so that one image pixel is mapped to one screen
pixel, as if it was set to 72ppi in the first place.
There are good reasons for wanting things to behave either way, and
I’m delighted that we can choose how it works on an image by image
basis. 
With a ‘high-resolution’ image (that hasn’t had its resolution
ignored), because the image still has all its pixels, you can enlarge
the image in Freeway without just ending up with clumpy fat pixels;
Freeway will re-render the image in your layout by reading the full
image data from the referenced graphic on your hard disk. Enlarging
an image reduces its effective resolution; scaling a 300ppi image up
to 200% means that the image’s pixels are a relative 150ppi. Scaling
it to 400% means it is effectively at 75ppi, and scaling it up to
500% puts it at an effective 60ppi - which leaves you in clumpy fat
pixel territory as that’s lower than the 72ppi ‘screen res standard’.
If you’re preparing images in Photoshop for a precise size in Freeway
then you may as well scale them to the desired pixel size and set the
ppi resolution to 72. That way they’ll import at the expected size
AND not need any to-fit scaling.
Whatever route you take, and even if you scale an image up so that it
is effectively a chunky, lego-like 5ppi (!), the graphic that Freeway
generates will always be a web-optimised, screen-resolution, 72ppi
item.
Finally, my regular ‘grumpy old man’ about terminology. When talking
about bitmap image resolution, “ppi”, please - not dpi! It stands,
quite literally, for “pixels per inch”, while dpi refers specifically
to the per-inch resolution of printed dots. Accuracy and clarity of
communication matters a lot, especially when discussing technical
issues.
Sorry for the moan!
k
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Can anyone recommend the best way for me to preserve the image quality for a background image once the browser has been resized…
Example of what I currently have here…
http://www.roarimage.com/uploads/test/test2.html
Thanks in advance.
Scott
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