I'm sorry- I have another question that seems really stupid to me, but I just don't know the answer.
I have been asked to help make a brochure look nicer. The person who designed it (who is less knowledgable about the graphic arts than I) has images on it that are 96 dpi, but we're sending it to a commercial printer
a) am I right in saying those images will not print well
b) where does one get 300 dpi images with which to play around with in photoshop? He has a globe, some tissue under a microscope and some microbes under a microscope. Of course, no one wants to pay for anything....If I had illustrator, which I do not, I would be tempted to try and "draw" these things using something from the built in brushes, etc, but I am assuming that photoshop does not have these things (for some reason, I am just better at doing things other than random phtot retouching in Illustrator)
I am having a random and crappy day filled with tech problems that are above my head but everyone seems to think I should know.
Signed,
Not really a tech person OR a graphic designer
am I right in saying those images will not print well
Yes. They'll look nice on a monitor (monitors are typically 96 dpi), but they'll look like crap when printed.
Sophia, you might try istockphoto -- they're not free, but they're very cheap, and they do have print-ready images.
You will need at least 300 dpi on those images. I'm not sure where to get photos to use in a brochure without paying for it. When I did the air charter brochure, I had to get clearances on all our images. Since I got the photos from aircraft owners who we used, they were happy to let us use them for free.
I just did a mailer where I got photos from istockphoto.com. It does cost money but the photos I used were only $10 each.
ETA: HA! X-post with Jessica.
You can buy clip art collections very cheap. quality may vary. ($10-$35) There are also some not so cheap collections used by professional graphics people - $200 bucks per collection - but obviously these are extensive, super-high quality and used by houses that do graphic design all day long for a living.
THank you guys. Imma think I am going home soon, because I want to commit hari kari (sp?) over this. I am verra frustrated
Sophia, if you're still around, your help desk (and the Blackboard manual, from which they lifted their doc) is on crack (and not even the good crack!) and the sample text file you linked to is correct. No parentheses or quotes are needed. I'll email you with a more detailed answer, but I figure nobody needs to suffer through this stuff if they don't actually have to.
When I did some reading on CSS a while ago, it was pretty well acknowledged that layout issues that could be easily solved with a table were still a major hurdle in CSS.
You've probably done the same reading, but I could dig out a few sites and the sample code they produced, if it would help.
Yeah it would help. The probelm is I'm trying to keep my "columns" of equal width (not length since this is layout I have no border) All the solutions of found (whether involving float or not) that would across browsers involve sizing columns in pixels - which of course varies from computer to computer. I want to size in percents the way you can with tables. But so far no love if I want cross browser compatability. And then I'm still going to h ave to find a a way to degrade gracefully for computers that don't support CSS. So yeah any solutions to the table problem that work with percents would be welcome.
Thanks amych! I hate being in the position where I know enough to KNOW when people are on crack (like this response and the 96 dpi printing thing) but not really know enough to fix it!
It also makes me angry that the person who was helping me was on crack, because she isn't just the help desk, she is the administrator and final arbiter of everything blackboard at my entire school! And she wanted me to buy third party software to solve the issue!
You're doing a three-column?
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