corel draw 9 and jpg 2

[feedafone]

hi, i have created an image in corel which i export as a jpg. the quality of the jpg seems to be really poor. Can someone please tell me the correct type of jpg i should export as, and the compressions etc i should be using. i want to optimize the image for web use, any help is appreciated

 

[Bananas]

Make sure RGB and Anti-aliasing are selected. 72dpi is fine and then in the next box I use Encoding Method: Progressive and I usually set the compression slider to about 40 (beyond that the degradation starts to become more noticable). I will go above or below 40 depending on the circumstances. For example, the importance of the image, the weight of the rest of the page etc.

The "Smoothing" I leave at zero and the Sub Format thing I leave at Standard as I'm not really sure what it is for, it doesn't seem to do much. Joe Bananas

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[attrofy]

Just to elaborate a little, smoothing kind of blurs the hard edges between color breaks. If you have a small enough image, and zoom into a level close enough that you can see the details (in the preview pane), but far enough away that you can still see enough of the big picture for reference, and then adjust the smoothing to 100% it will look as if someone took a picture of your image, only out of focus. It can have some benefits for the right type of image, yet I hardly ever use it as most of the images I develop are for web or applications, and since they are already small, I need as much detail as I can get.

One thing to consider using is the .gif format as opposed to .jpg. Not only can you do animations as a .gif (if the need arises) but you can also optimize the output for a smaller file. By reducing the colors to only the colors in the image (Adaptive) you can eliminate alot of extra info in the image.

 

[Guest_imported]

If you are using images to up load onto the web you must also think about the size of the files , ,Poor quality in final images tends to mean you do not have DPI correct ,set DPI TO 300 this will improve the image greatly , unfortunatly by doing this you will make the j peg file bigger , so the best option is to export as a[ gif ]this will make uploading and viewing your image on the web alot quicker, hope this makes sense to you