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Introduction

The old saying 'a picture is worth a thousand words' remains as true as ever. Pictures and graphics are one of the main reasons for the success of the web and are one of the best ways to make an attractive web site.

There's a dilemma that faces everyone when putting photos on the web. You want nice large, high quality, photos on your web because that makes you website attractive. On the other hand it also makes it slow, which can be very frustrating to your visitors. So how do you solve this dilemma ?

This website will explain everything you need to know about putting pictures and photographs on your website and explain step-by-step how to get the best from your photographs and at the same time de-mystifyies the jargon. It introduces the novel 'Smart Photos' Modules system and demonstrates how to use these on your website and the benefits of this system.

Throughout the website there are highlighted 'golden rules' that if you follow you are almost guaranteed to get the best quality photographs, as well as the fastest possible website.

2 Background
   File Formats
   Size Matters
   Thumbnails
   When to scan at higher resolution
   Pixels - a much simpler way
3 Quality & Compression
   Cumulative Distortion
   Design Guidlines
4 Smart Photos - a tutorial
   Smart Photo Benefits
   How do Smart Photos Work
   Obtaining your photo
5 Uploading, sideloading
   Uploading
   Sideloading
6 The Smart Photo Editor
   Cropping
   Resize
   Rotating
7 Optimizing photos
   Enhancing photos
   Sharpening
8 Color effects
   Color tinting
9 Thumbnails
10 Putting your photos on the web
   Remote update
   Instant Edit
   Performance

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© Charles Moir 2002