The New Look and Feel, and other notes… |
| Saturday, May 17th, 2008 |
So… this week Skyler updated the look and feel of the blog so it matches everything else. So thanks, Skyler. I think it looks great! I just spent two and a half days at our home office, learning the ropes a little better and here are a few fun tips I picked up and can pass along. First, did you know that in Photoshop, if you’re working from a flattened .jpg that you can’t save it as a .png file? I thought this was a little ridiculous and inconvenient, but soon learned that there are several downloadable resources that you can get for free that automatically convert these files for you. I’ll try to post links to these in this entry very soon (but I want to make sure I get it right this time… so you’ll probably have to wait until Monday because I’m not gonna try and make that mistake again.) In the meantime, I figured out that you can also open these .jpg files in a program you’ll probably remember playing with when you were twelve — Microsoft Paint — and save them as .png’s there! Okay, GTG! storm |
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May 17th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
I’m glad you (and Bill Gates) approve! I expect to be making a few changes here and there as things grow as well…
May 27th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Actually, this is not necessarily true–more of a generalization most likely based on your experiences with a specific Photoshop version and the platform it is running on.
You are probably using a version that determines available “Save As” formats based on the current Image mode (e.g. Bitmap, Grayscale, etc.) or you have ran into some type of bug (plugins, particular libraries/DLLs installed, etc.).
On windows based platforms (both Windows XP and Vista) running Photoshop (CS2/8.0 and later), you can definitely “Save As” and choose the PNG format after opening (and even editing) a “flattened” JPG (JPEG) file. Unless you are working with Exif, JFIF, or Motion JPEG, JPEGs do not generally contain multiple layers and are, in a sense, “flattened”.
Although PNG is a great open format, it can take slightly longer to render in IE than some of the more seasoned formats.
If you do you run into a graphic format that is “unsupported” by Photoshop or any other editor for that matter, “XnView” (http://www.xnview.com/) is freely available and can be used to view and convert between several hundred formats.