Pictures (graphics) and IWP

Hello -

Does anyone know a good set of standards for PNGs and GIFs for use
with IWP.

Sometimes images will pixelate and sometimes images will look perfect
in IWP.

I cannot figure out which picture formats are good for FMP's IWP
translation.

The one thing I DO KNOW is that any graphics I create from scratch is
Photoshop... translate ok. BUt I'm trying to just ... gather a list
of standards that a graphic file would meet in order to display
without pixelation in IWP.


Please... any ideas or help will be much appreciated.

Thanks!

B

Re: Pictures (graphics) and IWP

In article
,
"wilsonistrey@gmail.com" wrote:

> Hello -
>
> Does anyone know a good set of standards for PNGs and GIFs for use
> with IWP.
>
> Sometimes images will pixelate and sometimes images will look perfect
> in IWP.
>
> I cannot figure out which picture formats are good for FMP's IWP
> translation.
>
> The one thing I DO KNOW is that any graphics I create from scratch is
> Photoshop... translate ok. BUt I'm trying to just ... gather a list
> of standards that a graphic file would meet in order to display
> without pixelation in IWP.
>
> Please... any ideas or help will be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks!

The web standard image formats are GIF, JPEG and (if you must) PNG, all
at a screen resolution of 72dpi - 100dpi.

My guess is that the pixellation is happening because you're enlarging
the images to more than 100% of the original size.

Another possibility is that you're using GIF images with transparency.
These will look pixellated around the edges since any anti-aliasing
would be for the original background colour you can no longer see (or
the images has no edge anti-aliasing at all).


Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Re: Pictures (graphics) and IWP

On Nov 30, 7:08 pm, Helpful Harry
wrote:
> In article
> ,
>
>
>
> "wilsonist...@gmail.com" wrote:
> > Hello -
>
> > Does anyone know a good set of standards for PNGs and GIFs for use
> > with IWP.
>
> > Sometimes images will pixelate and sometimes images will look perfect
> > in IWP.
>
> > I cannot figure out which picture formats are good for FMP's IWP
> > translation.
>
> > The one thing I DO KNOW is that any graphics I create from scratch is
> > Photoshop... translate ok. BUt I'm trying to just ... gather a list
> > of standards that a graphic file would meet in order to display
> > without pixelation in IWP.
>
> > Please... any ideas or help will be much appreciated.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> The web standard image formats are GIF, JPEG and (if you must) PNG, all
> at a screen resolution of 72dpi - 100dpi.
>
> My guess is that the pixellation is happening because you're enlarging
> the images to more than 100% of the original size.
>
> Another possibility is that you're using GIF images with transparency.
> These will look pixellated around the edges since any anti-aliasing
> would be for the original background colour you can no longer see (or
> the images has no edge anti-aliasing at all).
>
> Helpful Harry
> Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Thank you Harry.

I am definitely using some graphics that are Transparent GIFs...
sometimes via Photoshop, converted from PNG.

Do you know of any settings I can adjust to make the images more
smooth?

Again, quite helpful. Thanks
B

Re: Pictures (graphics) and IWP

In article
,
"wilsonistrey@gmail.com" wrote:

> On Nov 30, 7:08 pm, Helpful Harry
> wrote:
> > In article
> > ,
> >
> >
> >
> > "wilsonist...@gmail.com" wrote:
> > > Hello -
> >
> > > Does anyone know a good set of standards for PNGs and GIFs for use
> > > with IWP.
> >
> > > Sometimes images will pixelate and sometimes images will look perfect
> > > in IWP.
> >
> > > I cannot figure out which picture formats are good for FMP's IWP
> > > translation.
> >
> > > The one thing I DO KNOW is that any graphics I create from scratch is
> > > Photoshop... translate ok. BUt I'm trying to just ... gather a list
> > > of standards that a graphic file would meet in order to display
> > > without pixelation in IWP.
> >
> > > Please... any ideas or help will be much appreciated.
> >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > The web standard image formats are GIF, JPEG and (if you must) PNG, all
> > at a screen resolution of 72dpi - 100dpi.
> >
> > My guess is that the pixellation is happening because you're enlarging
> > the images to more than 100% of the original size.
> >
> > Another possibility is that you're using GIF images with transparency.
> > These will look pixellated around the edges since any anti-aliasing
> > would be for the original background colour you can no longer see (or
> > the images has no edge anti-aliasing at all).
>
> Thank you Harry.
>
> I am definitely using some graphics that are Transparent GIFs...
> sometimes via Photoshop, converted from PNG.
>
> Do you know of any settings I can adjust to make the images more
> smooth?
>
> Again, quite helpful. Thanks

There's only one ways to stop transparent GIF images looking blocky
around the edges: turn off the transparency.

Without transparency you have to set the "transparent" colour the same
as the background the colour the image will be on top of, and therefore
the antialiasing (or at least what little anti-aliasing you can get
with only a 256 colour palette) will work better. Unfortunately, it may
not be easy / possible to do this, unless you're creating the images
yourself or can change the background colour quite easily.

OR you can simply use whatever colour the image originally had, which
of course will give you a rectangular block of a different colour
around the image.

I should have said before that although PNG is (unfortunately) becoming
a third web standard, I'm not sure whether FileMaker likes them or not.
It may well convert PNG images to GIF / JPEG internally by itself for
web display. You're probably best to stick to the original two web
formats: GIF and JPEG.

Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Re: Pictures (graphics) and IWP

On Dec 1, 12:15 am, Helpful Harry
wrote:
> In article
> ,
>
>
>
> "wilsonist...@gmail.com" wrote:
> > On Nov 30, 7:08 pm, Helpful Harry
> > wrote:
> > > In article
> > > ,
>
> > > "wilsonist...@gmail.com" wrote:
> > > > Hello -
>
> > > > Does anyone know a good set of standards for PNGs and GIFs for use
> > > > with IWP.
>
> > > > Sometimes images will pixelate and sometimes images will look perfect
> > > > in IWP.
>
> > > > I cannot figure out which picture formats are good for FMP's IWP
> > > > translation.
>
> > > > The one thing I DO KNOW is that any graphics I create from scratch is
> > > > Photoshop... translate ok. BUt I'm trying to just ... gather a list
> > > > of standards that a graphic file would meet in order to display
> > > > without pixelation in IWP.
>
> > > > Please... any ideas or help will be much appreciated.
>
> > > > Thanks!
>
> > > The web standard image formats are GIF, JPEG and (if you must) PNG, all
> > > at a screen resolution of 72dpi - 100dpi.
>
> > > My guess is that the pixellation is happening because you're enlarging
> > > the images to more than 100% of the original size.
>
> > > Another possibility is that you're using GIF images with transparency.
> > > These will look pixellated around the edges since any anti-aliasing
> > > would be for the original background colour you can no longer see (or
> > > the images has no edge anti-aliasing at all).
>
> > Thank you Harry.
>
> > I am definitely using some graphics that are Transparent GIFs...
> > sometimes via Photoshop, converted from PNG.
>
> > Do you know of any settings I can adjust to make the images more
> > smooth?
>
> > Again, quite helpful. Thanks
>
> There's only one ways to stop transparent GIF images looking blocky
> around the edges: turn off the transparency.
>
> Without transparency you have to set the "transparent" colour the same
> as the background the colour the image will be on top of, and therefore
> the antialiasing (or at least what little anti-aliasing you can get
> with only a 256 colour palette) will work better. Unfortunately, it may
> not be easy / possible to do this, unless you're creating the images
> yourself or can change the background colour quite easily.
>
> OR you can simply use whatever colour the image originally had, which
> of course will give you a rectangular block of a different colour
> around the image.
>
> I should have said before that although PNG is (unfortunately) becoming
> a third web standard, I'm not sure whether FileMaker likes them or not.
> It may well convert PNG images to GIF / JPEG internally by itself for
> web display. You're probably best to stick to the original two web
> formats: GIF and JPEG.
>
> Helpful Harry
> Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Hey Harry -

A friend of mine gave me a transparent gif tip and I will try it and
post back here... if he's right ... this is pretty easy to solve.

B