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2 Time Savers When Working with Images

We’ve been putting a lot of time into building a cart on line and during the process have been using a couple of short-cuts that have really sped the process along – in addition to using the new LED Fancier 500 light  and the ‘curves’ function to get those white backgrounds. Even if you’re not [...]

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How to Get Pictures with White Backgrounds

With most people the primary goal of having a website is to make money.  That being said, how you present your product is important, i.e, having  good, quality pictures.  While we’d all like to have catalog type pictures – you know the kind….no shadows and nice white background – getting this type of picture is not easily accomplished for the amateur [...]

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How to Get Professional Looking Headers

If you’re designing a website, you’ve probably given a little, if not a lot of thought to the header.

How big?
How busy?
How much information should it include?

In years past when monitors were much smaller, the maximum width was pretty much set at either 800 or 1024 pixels. However, today there are some very wide monitors allowing [...]

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Using a Color Wheel

Most things in life seem to follow an order or pattern of some sort. Colors are no different.  There is a definite order to colors and for those out there that may be artistically challenged or unfamiliar with the types of colors,  we’re going to cover a few color basics here.

Order of colors – primary, secondary, etc.
Combination of colors [...]

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Using Image Backgrounds: Transparent and White

Using transparent images on your web pages can often create a more interesting layout allowing the background to ‘shine’ through.

Graphics programs such as Photo Shop  or Paint Shop Pro  allow you to create transparent images that can be saved as either GIF or PNG files. Never as JPEGs.

Creating  a Transparency

Transparency in an image is created when [...]

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