Important to
NOTE:
The CANVAS or Workspace
is "Transparent".
It appears white, and
if you drag a graphic onto it that has white surrounding it, you may think
it is transparent. But if you want to layer it against a background or
group together with other graphics you will see the white box surrounding
jpg images. At this point you can use the Magic Wand tool feature and click
in all areas of white and press your keyboard Delete key to remove the
white. To layer images against a background graphic, you can add/insert
a rectangle or square shape and size it the same size as your Canvas, then
using Format menu, position shape to "back". Next choose to use Effects
menu and choose Fill with Texture or Color, and if you want a graphic,
choose "Picture", then pick the graphic from the Files you brought/dragged/opened
into the softwares workarea. Your background graphic will autosize itself
in porportion to fit/fill the shape.
Or use alternative:
Size your Canvas/Workarea,
and Drag the Background Graphic first to the Canvas, and then layer on
the other graphics to compile your graphic or sigtag image.
The size of the original
graphic was "666 x 373 pixels", I found the size by clicking
on the Format menu, and
resize image, and viewing the information.
**I forgot to make
a note on this screen graphic that I am going to change this image to be
316 x 177 pixels. **
I am not going to resize
using this method, but you could use this option to resize an image yourself,
and you could also change the Resolution to 72pixels per inch or keep at
96dpi.
What ever dimension you
want to change, the little button next to it, must be "unchecked", notice
how the pixel dimensions is unchecked and the Inches size is checked. If
I want to change pixel size, I make sure circle is unchecked and I can
type in the size I want image to be.
I will open a New Canvas
- Workarea, and then resize the Canvas
I type in the size I want
final image to be = 316w by 177h pixels
I take the original image
that is open in my Files that I opened from a folder on
my computer and I only
have to drag it over to this Canvas, it will autofit itself into this
smaller space without
distortion.
Image may appear blurry
if on your Zoom scale it is showing you the image and canvas at a larger
scale percentage than 100 %.
I slide scale down to
view at 100 %.
The original image was
saved in a jpg format and had white surrounding it.
to remove the white,
I used the magic wand tool, clicked in all white areas
and used my keyboard
delete key.
Since this image did
not have alot of "white" within the graphic itself, I could have
used an alternative method
to remove the white, I could have used my Deluxe
Hugbug Browser feature
of holding down my keyboard shiftkey, as I dragged
image from my Browser
to my files in DIP.
(**I can access images
I save, via my browser by using the My Favorites option, and accessing
other image folders I have on my computer**)
Then I added the text,
and saved the image. To retain the transparency
I saved the image as
a .gif format. Gif and PNG images retain and support
transparency, JPG images
do not.
Here is the final image
- with the text added.
file name is dreamsigtagwname.gif
Here is the same image
resized to 246w x 138 pixels,
using the Format menu,
resize Image option.
file name is dreamsigtag02.gif
to demo the transparency
- I put a graphic background behind it
then used Effects menu,
and edges, and chose soft edge to create this final image
file name dreamtagwname03.gif
Creating an image from
scratch, using the Size the "Canvas" first method.
To demo, I made a new
tag for myself, and used the steps I suggest of sizing the Canvas first
to the size I want final image to be, for this example I chose to size
it the same as the Dream tag of 316 x 177. I used images from the Happy
Thanksgiving Creatable by Carol Halm. I dragged the images from my browser,
and put them in my Files.
(this particular images did not have alot of white in them'so I used the
hold down the shift key while dragging, and did not have to remove the
white)
**See my online
mini-tut showing how I remove white using the
Magic Wand tool and
delete key method**
Then I opened or created
a new canvas workspace and
sized it to 316 x 177
pixels.
(Note at top of my screen,
that DIP is zooming to 256%, so, when viewing these graphics at this level
they will appear blurry on the Canvas)
Viewing at 100%, I see
how the image will look online, I added text
to image and then using
Free hand selection tool, I selected parts, copied them
and arranged on graphic
compilation.
Scaling Graphics
for the Web
http://www.kumc.edu/webdev/graphics2/scaling.html
Sizing Graphics for the
WEB
http://www.graphic-design.com/DTG/DTG-Solutions/60-Sizes.html
Sample Chapter from Easy
Web Graphics by Julie Adair King
http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/4805.asp
How do I reduce the size
of photos for online use?
http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/digitalimaging/f/howreducesize.htm
InfoNotes: What is File
Resolution?
http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/infonotes/file_resolution.html
Excerpt quoted:
when an image is 300
dpi that means there are 300 pixels for every inch of image
Read entire article:
http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/infonotes/file_resolution.html
Understanding Resolution
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/und_resolution.shtml
Understanding resolution
| Keep in mind, they're only pixels
http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/Tips/resolution.html
The Mad, Mad World of
Pixels Per Inch (PPI) http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/columns/ajs_ppi.html
Explaining "DPI" | a chapter
from Photo Business Books
http://www.danheller.com/tech-dpi.html
Pixels, Dots, and Inches:
How Big Can I Print It
By Dave Etchells
Excerpt quoted from article:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/TIPS/PRINT1/PRINT1A.HTM
Based on what I've seen
in various discussion forums on the
‘web, printing resolution
has to be one of the most confusing topics in digital imaging.
The question is simple:
"How large can I print images from my digital camera
(scanner, photo-on-floppy,
etc.), and still have them look their best?"
This month, we’ll take
on this question, and hopefully clear up a few misconceptions along the
way.
Read full article:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/TIPS/PRINT1/PRINT1A.HTM
Related:
My all about SigTags
and posting in forum messages
information page
http://www.marynpauln.com/sigtagimages.html
Learn more about Digital
Image Pro
MarysGraphics.com
has excellent tutorials for
all versions of Microsofts
Digital Imaging software programs
http://www.marysgraphics.com/picit.html
See also Scrapbook-Bytes
tutorials for Digital Image Pro
*click on tutorials and
then choose Digital Image Pro
Register for free at
Scrapbook Bytes for access to their messageboard
forums, and you can post
questions about DIP.
And download the
freebies offered online, etc.
Create a
Graphic for PRINTING
I made a webpage showing
how I would use this method of Sizing the Canvas workarea first, and dragging
graphics to "that Canvas" to create an image compilation and print out
that exact size.
The graphics dragged to
this specific sized work canvas will automatically
size themselves to fit
the sized work canvas.
See how I would create
an image graphic for a 4inch x 4inch Tile.
http://www.teas2dine4.com/hugbees/maketilewdip.html
Filling a Simple Template
using Digital Image Pro
http://www.teas2dine4.com/hugbees/filltempwdip10.html