Message-Id: <mailto:199603251740.LAA06488@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 12:33:42 -0500 From: mailto:ali00law@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU> Subject: Re: WWW gif display To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
>I have scanned in images that look good in print but look jagged on the web.
>Circles are a big problem.
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>What is the trick to getting gif immages to show well on the World Wide Web?
>I understand the a good printable image is different from a good Web image.
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>For example, what dots per inch is appropriate?
Your final image on the Web cannot be viewed at more than 72 dpi (limitations of monitors) ... so it's not necessary to save it any higher than that. However... to get a clean image... you would want to start with a scan that is a higher resolution, so that you can work with a higher quality image until you get it the way you want it... and then you can size it down to 72 dpi (and hopefully still retain some of the quality of the higher dpi).
>What other criteria effect it?
The other problem with Web images... gifs in particular... is that a gif can only contain up to 256 colors. This tends to make lots of images look rather "pixelated" or fuzzy. You may consider trying JPEG images... you can have as many colors in them as you want. If you do go with a gif... don't save the image as such until you are finished manipulating it. I have noticed that the 256 color images don't "edit" well... often leading to jagged edges.
Good luck.
Lisa
~ Lisa Weedman mailto:ali00law@email.uncc.edu ~ Media Services/Graphics ~ The University of North Carolina at Charlotte