Can anyone give me some tips about why my logo image is choppy? The letters are suppose to be clean lines, but they are all bumpy. You can see it here: http://www.wwwebslinger.com Also, the green (behind the logo) blends well in FF but not in IE7... anyone have a quick answer as to why that is and what I can do about it? Thanks in advance for any help!!!!
the logo looks to have been created in a low resolution and is why it appears to be choppy. If you bump it up a bit while creating the logo it will be smoother
Yeah, you should keep a vector version of your logo so that it can be scaled to any size without loosing quality. That colour issue is weird though - I wish I could help with that but hopefully somebody else will know what's up!
In my experience, Jpgs, have a tendency to be choppy, and thats why I normally avoid them for logos, because you want your logo to look really good, as it is one of the first thing your visitors are going to see...
They shouldn't look choppy as long as you scale your vector version of the logo to the right size before saving it as a jpeg - it's when you start trying to rescale jpeg's that the problems occur.
Thanks for all your help, everyone. I think I've got it now. I'm deleting my files and starting over (different issue) so you won't see much on the link I provided in the first post for a few days.
Well said. I've found that too many designers (or wanna-be designers) don't know the difference between raster and vector images, so they create logos at 2 inches x 2 inches in Photoshop, then later wonder why they can't use them for anything else! No disrespect, carjam, I don't mean to sound condescending. It's just a very good piece of knowledge for a designer to have, saves you a LOT of trouble if you do it right. Kinda like that old carpenter's saying... "measure twice, cut once."
You must not be using them properly. Jpgs are ideal for logos and photographs etc. GIFs should be used if there are only a few select colors or if u need transparency... although they dont handle transparency aswell as 24bit PNGS however IE screws them up.