Aspect Ratios

When we look at pictures and images they are either a portrait image where the width is narrower than the height dimension or they are landscape where the height is less than the width. These descriptions and width: height relationships began with paintings and spread through into photography in a sort of “if it’s not […]

Image Tools

Image Tools To create your perfect website you need to be able to manipulate images and graphics to get them into the right size and format. Probably the best now tools for this are the Adobe Suite of programs with Photoshop for images and Illustrator for vector graphics. The programmes are unfortunately far from cheap […]

Image Typefaces and Fonts

When you have been employed to create a new version of an existing website try and get the highest quality graphics you can direct from the client. By all means use images from their existing site (if they have one) as “place holders” but try for the originals. If you are adding any additional drawn […]

Image File Sizes

It can sometimes be difficult to find just the right images for the message you want to convey on your site. But please don’t steal images from the other peoples websites. Sourcing Images There are many sources of free images out there so have a search for for something suitable. When you do make Google’s […]

Let’s look at Symmetry

Humans like Symmetry Human beings have a natural ability to recognise symmetry usually what is referred to as reflectional symmetry. This is where you put a dividing line down the centre of an object and the left hand side directly mirrors the right. It has been found that people seen a most attractive exhibit high […]

Manipulating Graphics

I want to walk through a couple of problems that are often encountered with images; the first is when the only client logo you have been given is a jpg with a white background but the new website has a different background. The second is the creation of a tile to be used in a […]