Expert: Glen Demers - 9/17/2008

Question
Hey Glenn, I'm tryn to upload a quality flier to the web that I designed through photoshop, but everytime the image and text comes out blurry and not crisp as it looks in photoshop. Im struggling to figure out how to upload a quality, crisp, clear image to a social website. Can you help me out?

Answer
Hi Vell,

Make sure your image is 72 dpi, RGB at the size you want it to appear on the web page. A larger image may be downsampled to save space and this could be what is happening.

Small type does not render well at this resolution, keep it larger than 8 pt. and use a legible face (Arial, Helvetica) upper and lower case.

You should save it as a jpeg with maximum quality.

For a more detailed explanation of resolution and how it affects appearance, check out this article:
http://www.bestprintingonline.com/resolution.htm

Hope this helps,
Glen Demers
Adobe Certified Expert, Photoshop 7
Prepress Technician, Best Printing Online
www.bestprintingonline.com

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