Posts Tagged ‘how to’
Knowing Your Pixels
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

When working in a program like Photoshop® or Gimp®, you’ll soon find yourself becoming familiar with the distance 600px (pixels) reaches in width or height (as compared to your own computer monitor anyway).
This becomes helpful in at least two ways.

Guestimating element sizes. When you want to determine a good size for an image, box or [...]

Why are the edges in my image all pixelated?
Sunday, March 1st, 2009

What’s happening: .gif images are either 100% transparent or 100% opaque. There is no in-between. So Illustrator, assuming by default that your background is going to be white, fades the edges of you image to an almost-white, then cuts to transparent. This of course would make for a nice clean edge on a white or [...]

How do I make my website show up on the internet?
Sunday, March 1st, 2009

There are various tools that will publish your website for you (e.g. Adobe® Dreamweaver), once you’ve built it, but without a basic understanding of what it’s doing for you, you risk running into problems you won’t know how to solve.
So, assuming you already know what server, FTP and Hosting mean (and a few other terms), [...]