What am I doing wrong with my banner font

Justin Phillips · July 7, 2008

Okay I have made several banners with the name of my company on them. They of course look great in Photoshop, but when I get them up on the site they get a little rough around the edges.....literally. I went back to the drawing board and found a good web font (Georgia) and changed the logo to that font, put it up and it looks a lot better but still a little rough.

Can anyone give me any input as to what I am doing wrong. I would just like nice sharp text for the name of my company. You can look at the page at www.phillipsphotostudio.com.

Thanks for any feedback!

Andy · July 7, 2008

Justin Phillips wrote:

Okay I have made several banners with the name of my company on them. They of course look great in Photoshop, but when I get them up on the site they get a little rough around the edges.....literally. I went back to the drawing board and found a good web font (Georgia) and changed the logo to that font, put it up and it looks a lot better but still a little rough.

Can anyone give me any input as to what I am doing wrong. I would just like nice sharp text for the name of my company. You can look at the page at www.phillipsphotostudio.com.

Thanks for any feedback!

YOur banner is actually here
http://justinphillips.smugmug.com/galleries

not on your homepage.

Try anti-aliasing your fonts.

Justin Phillips · July 7, 2008

Thanks for the quick response, AA was set to sharp, I changed it to crisp just to see if it changes anything.

OneEyedJack · July 7, 2008

save it as a png file

BinaryFx · July 8, 2008

Justin Phillips wrote:

Can anyone give me any input as to what I am doing wrong.

Ensure GIF images are saved with sufficient colours to account for edge aliasing (GIF can have 256 colours, you may be reducing to a too low value).

Stephen Marsh
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/

What am I doing wrong with my banner font

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