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Free-range images

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- As things stand now, there really aren't any rules to the internet, at least not in this country, not as I record this at any rate. But there are a few rules to creating images for the web. Your images can't contain layers, not the kind that Photoshop can read anyway. They generally have to be physically small, barely larger than a couple thousand pixels in either direction. Print size and resolution, by the way, are irrelevant. For pixel-based images, you're permitted three file formats, JPEG, GIF, and everyone's favorite, PNG, the last of which permits you to include transparent or translucent pixels. For vectors including text, we have a format that we haven't seen so far, SVG. And finally, if you want your colors to survive with any degree of accuracy, you need to convert them to the lowest common denominator color space, which is known as sRGB. Fortunately, Photoshop's various export commands take care of these…

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