Troubles with template logo program

Photoshop seems to make images lossy

[lizasham]

Ok. I am newbie. I am a stay at home mom with two babies, who thinks she doesn't have enough to do so is trying to learn everything she can about graphic design, web design, HTML, etc, etc. I love this forum and revere you guys as gods.

My husband is a web programmer for a telecom company. We are both pretty tech savvy and have found a niche market in designing logos for the many home-based "business owners" who want a logo for little to nothing.

We are using a template source for the logos, The Logo Creator, which I really think is pretty lousy. But we inheirited the software when we took over the logo creation stuff from a guy my DH works with. I like more simple, classy style logos than the ones The Logo Creator puts out, but most of the clients the former "designer" dealt with were all about the many colored, cheap-looking (to me) logos.

The point of this lengthy what-are-you-getting-at post is this: I am trying to put some samples of the Logo Creator stuff on a webpage I am doing in Photoshop. I export the logo as a gif or a png, and size it in PS and then copy all and paste it into the webpage doc. When i preview the webpage in Image ready, everything on the page looks great except for the logos. Very grainy. Colors are very distorted.

One reason may be that I thought about doing some animation and set the logos in frames. I later decided that a never ending stream of silly looking logos would be annoying, and tried to delete the frames ( in image ready). I can't get rid of the first frame. When I insert a new logo sample image into the website in PS, it adds it to that frame.

When you use animation do the images save in a lossy format or something? That would explain my image problem. But then what do I do to get rid of the animation? I knew I should have steered clear of the cheesy stuff like that in the first place!

[edited by: Marcia at 6:30 am (utc) on Aug. 21, 2003]
[edit reason] Minor spacing adjustment. [/edit]

[garann]

Have you looked at the exported logos alone, without importing them into another file or library? Have you tried looking at them in your web browser? If they still show up grainy, maybe you need to adjust the bits when you export from your logo creation software.

It might be worth a shot to try hand-coding the website, rather than using Photoshop and ImageReady, and to instead use PS and IR to create your logos. At the very least, that approach should make it clear very quickly whether the problem is the image, the application, or what.

hth,
g.