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Photography on top level pages of the site incorporates one of two blend styles at the bottom of the image area. The blend styles create a softer appearance and convey a visually more open, less blocky impression to reflect the open-minded, inclusive and welcoming Hamline spirit.

Use of either blend style on other photos throughout the site is optional. The style should be used freely to convey openness and warmth, but with judgment about whether it is appropriate to the nature of an image or the overall effect of a page layout. In the example images on this page, the screen bar style may be considered a better choice than the gradation fade style because the book in the photo is more visible.
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If you’ve worked with many images from the Public Domain, you’ve most likely encountered the issues I’m going to address in this fourth installment of Photoshop Tricks. Many of the images that you find online from the Public Domain are at a low resolution…most images are like that actually. And if you want to make physical prints or physical products, most of these low-res images are worthless…rather they WERE worthless, because I’m going to show you how to enhance them in some really cool ways in this report.
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Assembling the Mosaic
The first step after acquiring your images for a mosaic is to assemble them in PhotoShop in their initial configuration. I generally open all the images at the same time and do an initial arrangement to make sure everything is going to fit correctly and nothing is missing. The image below shows 3 frames of a Moon image I have taken as they have been initially dropped onto the canvas for processing. This is the image we will work thru in this tutorial.
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Photographs are continuous-tone images because you cannot distinguish divisions, or gradations, between colors. Printed images are not continuous-tone images. Instead, printers create the illusion of many colors using halftone dots. Most printed images are made up of rows of dots of varying sizes, called halftone screens, which produce the appearance of multiple tones when printed.

The quality of a printed image is greatly influenced by the refinement of its halftone screen. The finer the screen, the less apparent the dot pattern, because there are more dots per area and they are closer together. A high-resolution imagesetter, which can produce a high number of dots per inch, will accommodate a fine halftone screen.
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Make sure resolution is the same and then that sizes are appropriate. First, size your base image.
Target dpi
For viewing on web page, most practical: 72dpi and actual size you want it seen.
For printing in class, 200 dpi
For commercial printing, 300 dpi

Make resolution of images you are adding the same as the base image. Reduce or enlarge images you are adding to the size you will want them to be or slightly larger Choose one of several ways to move images onto the base image.
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Electronic presentation of images requires somewhat different preparation than for printing. This article recommends a process that has proven satisfactory to the author. Other methods may be equally valid, and the “best method” will continue to evolve as technology changes. This article assumes Photoshop CS on Windows, but other image processing software can be used to implement the same method. Although much of the discussion assumes you are preparing images for digital projection, the same methods generally apply to preparing images for display on computer monitors or even televisions.
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Optimized images look better and load faster in both web pages and PowerPoint, and the faster a page or slide loads, the better. Large, un-optimized images can slow a presentation down, and adversely affect its performance. In addition, PowerPoint handles some file types better than others, and web browsers will only allow certain kinds of images to be displayed by web pages. Most professional scans of slides and other media will be saved in “.TIF” format, which can’t be used for display on web pages and shouldn’t be used in PowerPoint presentations. During optimization, files can be converted from one form to another. For further information on file formats, consult our PowerPoint guide (make a link here please).
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There is a lot of software, both free as well as commercial, to create animated GIFs. The majority of software available is shareware, where a user may download a trial version for free prior to purchasing [2]. According to Download.com, the two most popular software for creating GIF animation are Ulead® GIF Animator TM (Ulead Systems Inc., Torrance, CA, USA) and CoffeeCup GIF Animator (CoffeeCup Software Inc., Corpus Christi, TX, USA) [3]. Both have received high rating from reviewers and users.
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Adobe Photoshop is an industry leading image editing software package that offers a variety of powerful tools for creating and editing images for print and Web presentation. This tutorial covers the fundamental procedures for doing simple adjustments to images and saving them for publication on the Web. To follow the procedures outlined in this tutorial, you will need to have image file available for experimentation.
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For purposes of this tutorial, we will be working with a number of image files located in a folder called Photoshop Class Samples. This folder should already be on your desktop if you are part of the Photoshop class. Create another folder on the desktop with your name. We will want to preserve our original photos in the Photoshop Class Samples folder, and store our working copies in this new folder. We only want to work on the files in the working files folder, which will later be saved for the web. Never work from your master images. That way, you can always start over from the original image if necessary.
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