[SOLVED] Paint Shop Pro Banner Heading looks blotchy

cliff1959 · January 20th, 2008, 10:09 AM

Hi,

First post newbie.

I've created a banner logo using PSP and when I import it into my web authoring programme (NVU) the dart blue of the text goes 'blotchy', in other words the solid colour has slightly darker and lighter groups of pixels in it!

Any ideas?

alexgeek · January 20th, 2008, 10:17 AM

Want to show us the image? We can offer better advice if we don't have to visualize it.

cliff1959 · January 20th, 2008, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexgeek

Want to show us the image? We can offer better advice if we don't have to visualize it.

Sure, the easiest way is to go to the website

http://www.cruisin-by.co.uk - it's the heading banner at the top.

thanks for your interest.

alexgeek · January 20th, 2008, 10:29 AM

I see what you mean now.
I'd use a better font, with nicer colours and don't use a texture.
Paint.NET is better than PSP IMO and photoshop even better.

cliff1959 · January 20th, 2008, 10:32 AM

Thanx for looking Alex,
The .jpg file in PSP looks perfect, it's in the import into NVU where things go wrong, so, perhaps it's a setting in NVU.

cliff1959 · January 20th, 2008, 10:34 AM

I'm just going to post the question on the NVU forum, it might be a problem other NVU users have experienced.

Aso · January 20th, 2008, 11:14 AM

I don't think it's got anything to do with NVU - this is the image on your server. See how it's still 'blotchy'? It's definitely to do with the JPEG authoring.

Try decreasing the compression ratio / increasing the JPEG quality settings.

Plus in your code you've got:

Code:

<img style="width: 808px; height: 244px;" alt="Learn to Drive in Paignton or Torquay" src="images/bannergem.jpg">

I don't think this is an issue at all, but usually it's more common to set the attributes like this:

Code:

<img width="808" height="244" alt="Learn to Drive in Paignton or Torquay" src="images/bannergem.jpg">

cliff1959 · January 20th, 2008, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aso186

I don't think it's got anything to do with NVU - this is the image on your server. See how it's still 'blotchy'? It's definitely to do with the JPEG authoring.

Try decreasing the compression ratio / increasing the JPEG quality settings.

The image is clean and sharp with good colours as a jpeg in PSP, as soon as I import it into NVU it changes, so surely the problem lies with NVU?

cliff1959 · January 20th, 2008, 11:41 AM

Success, I've done as aso186 suggested and saved it as best quality, imported into NVU and it's good, thanx for the suggestion.

alexgeek · January 20th, 2008, 12:21 PM

solved.