Signiture & Avatar Display

[Vampyr]

if I save it as a .gif, edges tend to get jaggy.

Here are the two sigs I was referring to:


(ignore the fonts on this one...I'll be fixing them soon. I used brush's to do the background on this one. By some wierd twist of fate, I ended up making it look like claw marks.)




Edit: Here is a good site for brush's:
http://veredgf.fredfarm.com/vbrush/main.html
Click "brush search engine" over to the right side of the page. From there, let you imagination run free.

[Null]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

if I save it as a .gif, edges tend to get jaggy.

Shouldnt, it might be a setting somewhere.



gif with transparent

Here are the two sigs I was referring to:

(ignore the fonts on this one...I'll be fixing them soon. I used brush's to do the background on this one. By some wierd twist of fate, I ended up making it look like claw marks.)


Edit: Here is a good site for brush's:
http://veredgf.fredfarm.com/vbrush/main.html
Click "brush search engine" over to the right side of the page. From there, let you imagination run free.

both thoes are really good, overall i like the axl one more, but that could chagne with the font change on the otherone, also i would add a slightly darker border.

and thanks for that site, i'll check it out.

[Vampyr]

That's a nice signiture. What font is that?

And I'm sure that you already know about this site, but if you ever want more fonts, it's a great site to use: http://www.dafonts.com

And sometimes I get jaggies when I save it as a gif, and sometimes I dont. I usually just play it safe and go with .jpg.

[Null]

dont remember what font it is actually. thats an older sig.

and yea, i've been to that site. actually i have a zip file with over 10,000 fonts on it. lol

problem is if i try to install them all, any program that tries to use fonts runs super slow. so its really pointless actually. heh.

[GameMaster]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

That's a nice signiture. What font is that?

And I'm sure that you already know about this site, but if you ever want more fonts, it's a great site to use: http://www.dafonts.com

And sometimes I get jaggies when I save it as a gif, and sometimes I dont. I usually just play it safe and go with .jpg.

For most signatures, you'll want to save it as a JPEG. For simple ones with solid colors, GIF will be fine and it's not as big a file.

The reason you get those jagged areas when you're saving it as a gif is because the gif format is only capable of displaying 215 colors. That means any image with gradients or more than 215 colors is going to be simplified when saved as a gif, resulting in having a jagged, not as good looking picture. Even though those signatures you made look like they don't have many different colors, there's actually thousands of different shades of blue and black. So the the computer decided to cut out the varying shades of black and gray on your font, giving it a jagged bit-like look.

JPEG, however, can store thousands of colors. So for complex images like yours, JPEG is better.

With simple signatures like mine, GIF is better becuase it can actually distinguish the few colors present better. If I used JPEG, everything would've blended more giving it a less sharp look.

However, when using JPEG, you sacrafise the ability to have transparency effects like Null's Sonic creation above. It just depends on what's most important to you.

[Null]

Originally Posted by GameMaster

For most signatures, you'll want to save it as a JPEG. For simple ones with solid colors, GIF will be fine and it's not as big a file.

The reason you get those jagged areas when you're saving it as a gif is because the gif format is only capable of displaying 215 colors. That means any image with gradients or more than 215 colors is going to be simplified when saved as a gif, resulting in having a jagged, not as good looking picture. Even though those signatures you made look like they don't have many different colors, there's actually thousands of different shades of blue and black. So the the computer decided to cut out the varying shades of black and gray on your font, giving it a jagged bit-like look.

JPEG, however, can store thousands of colors. So for complex images like yours, JPEG is better.

With simple signatures like mine, GIF is better becuase it can actually distinguish the few colors present better. If I used JPEG, everything would've blended more giving it a less sharp look.

However, when using JPEG, you sacrafise the ability to have transparency effects like Null's Sonic creation above. It just depends on what's most important to you.

he does use jpg, i said to use gif instead of coloring the section he wants invisable.


However you did bring up a point that i forgot to mention. usually when i make a gif to have transparent section. its outlined in black, which gives it a smoother look on the transparent edge.



Also, what program are you using? there should be no reason a gif should look sharper then a jpg, in most cases they should look exactly the same.

[GameMaster]

Originally Posted by Null

he does use jpg, i said to use gif instead of coloring the section he wants invisable.


However you did bring up a point that i forgot to mention. usually when i make a gif to have transparent section. its outlined in black, which gives it a smoother look on the transparent edge.



Also, what program are you using? there should be no reason a gif should look sharper then a jpg, in most cases they should look exactly the same.

It's a very minimal difference that would only really matter if it was your profession or something. So minimal, that it's not really visible.

Hmm...okay, look at example three at this site:

http://webmaster.info.aol.com/optimalgraph.html