Graphics File Type Choices for Web Design

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The most suitable file formats for a web site are JPEG and GIF. Using these file formats is not as easy, as it seems. And the usual question is JPEG or GIF – what file format to use?

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Green on Yellow is the Best

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That’s right and classy black on white is way behind according to readability study performed by Alyson L. Hill from Department of Psychology of Stephen F. Austin [State University]. You can actually get this conclusion by simply looking at paper’s webpage — it uses exactly the colors combination, which it found to be the most favorable. Nice touch indeed.

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Is Adobe Photoshop Elements good enough?

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One of the most fascinating features about studying Photoshop is that you soon learn that it often provides a variety of different tools and techniques for achieving similar results. Indeed, experimenting with those techniques is often the best way of teaching yourself.
It is fair to say that few, if any, designers can claim to have mastered all of its techniques. Even the Adobe Photoshop help manual and the various third party teach yourself Photoshop books barely scratch the surface.

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