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I created the graphics in photoshop. On my pc these graphics are clear and sharp. But when i upload them they just dont look the same.
my example url is www.onscreendesigns.co.uk
notice how the enter button is not clear and the drop shadow i added to it is not visible. It now looks like a white blur under the enter.
This is puzzling me. Has anyone else had this kind of trouble. If so how did you overcome it..
Thanks
Also when you do JPG, I would use 62% compression to save on space, but still keep the blurring out.
Steve
But I cannot figure why its fine on my PC and not on my server.
I think the server is having problems with graphics with ps filters on.
Have you come across this before?
Even when i tried reducing the amount of colours I got the same effect.
I'll keep thinking about it. In the meantime, there are allot of very talented people in the forum that may come to the rescue.
I think the server is having problems with graphics with ps filters on.
This would be the problem.
Use gif, png or jpeg.
zooloo
Its only when the graphics get to my server is when things are going wrong.
All my graphics are either gif or jpeg...
They are only distorting and going funny when photoshops filters are applied to them etc.
This is puzzling me.
If you save gif or jpeg them th efilter effects are part of the image and cannot be turned on or off.
This would be the problem.
No it wouldn't. There isn't a browser on earth that would even try displaying a psd file. He's editing the PSD files in his image editor, and then having problems with the gif output not being up to par.
The problem sounds like it has more to do with the optimization you're doing when you output the files to gif format than anything else... play with your optimization settings, and see what difference various settings make to the images.
If your special effects are degrading the quality of the gifs (and keep in mind, GIF format is not designed to show smooth color gradients, so any "glow" effects require some careful handling or they come out looking like garbage...), try redesigning the buttons to not use the layer effects. Sometimes it really just boils down to "simpler is better".
<added>Or, if you're having an easier time getting the results you want in Fireworks, why not just use Fireworks to create the graphics? Using Photoshop on web graphics can be overkill to begin with...</added>
I don't see the Enter button drop shadow but it's crisp and clear as can be on the three monitors I checked it out with, all set to 800 x 600.
I cleared the cache in my browser ie6. This seem to do the trick and restore everything.
I,m even more puzzled now as I dont think its an image problem but a browser one. A few web masters that i know have been telling me IE is blurring their graphics and AOL,s is causing mayhem.
Dont know what to think now as I dont know wheter my users are gonna see a nice crisp graphics as I see them on my machine or a blurred horrible thing on the server.
Maybe I should give up.
I was making an interface piece for a site that had a drop shadow on it which was set to the multiply blending mode. When I saved it with a transparent background and linked to it in my web page with the other interface piece, the drop shadow always looked lighter and I thought I had lost my marbles because the settings and everything were right, the same as the other pieces.
So, I went back and saved the picture without transparency, and with the color background that it needed to fit in, and the multiply blending mode worked correctly, because it had a layer below it to interact on.
I suppose that instead of saving your graphic with a background, you could save it with transparency if you used the "normal" blending mode for the drop shadow.
I hope that makes sense :>)
animgirl
