BritLink 5 Webinar Part 3 Resizing Images
Welcome! “BritLink 5 –Part 3” Hosted by: William Bourne, Britannia System Trainer Please MUTE your telephone to prevent background noise. If you have connection issues, please follow the instructions outlined in your webinar instructions. Please submit your suggestions for NEW training topics and comments regarding today’s presentation to: Due to the high number of participants today, our session will not be an “interactive” discussion…please submit specific questions regarding today’s topic to: and I will be sure to September 2007
BritLink 5 Resizing Images Adding pictures to custom items Adding a logo By William Bourne
BritLink 5 BritLink 5 is a Great Marketing Tool! Create Specials Create Coupons Customize the look Order Taker HP Supplies Finder and HP Purchase Edge Customer Reports
BritLink 5 BUT It does not have Photo Editing Capabilities. It can’t chew your food It can’t tuck you in at night and read a story
Photo-Editing Software Adobe Photoshop CS3 - $650 The Premium version is $1400 Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 - $99 Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 - $60 Microsoft Digital Image Suite - $80
BritLink 5 Free Photo Editing Software Picasa – GIMP – IrfanView –
BritLink 5 Almost Free? Microsoft “Photo Editor” that comes with Microsoft Office Professional. “Paint” that comes with Windows
BritLink 5 JPG vs. GIF
BritLink 5 JPEG and GIF are the two graphic formats supported in BritLink 5 for the addition of pictures and graphics to your site.
BritLink 5 JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group Photographs and Complex Graphics Supports 16 Million colors Uses a “Lossy” Compression Technique
BritLink 5 GIF Graphics Interchange Format Simple Graphics Supports only 256 colors Uses “Lossless” Compression Technique
HOWEVER Pictures can be saved as.jpg or.gif Graphic images can be both.jpg or.gif Make sure the file extension.jpg or.gif are saved with small letters.
BritLink 5 GIF Files – How can I get some?
BritLink 5 JPEG or Pictures, how do I get some? Your Wholesaler’s web sites! Your own digital camera. Public Domain photos from Web. From s
BritLink 5 “Lossy” vs.”Lossless” Compression
BritLink 5 “Lossless” “Lossless” Data Compression uses the same exact data when compressing or decompressing data. Important for bank records, text & data files. These files can get big. GIF Files
BritLink 5 “Lossy” Used to compress Picture, Audio, Visual Files In compressing and decompressing data, the data may be different than the original. Smaller compressed files. JPEG Files
BritLink 5 PIXEL Picture Element Pix short for “Picture” Is a single point in a graphic image In a color screen has 3-4 color elements
BritLink 5 Display Pixel Size 19” Monitor – 1280x ” Monitor – 1024x768 15” Monitor – 800x600
Suggested Maximum Picture Sizes in Pixels For Use in BritLink 5 Custom Picture Thumbnail – 100x100 Center Pane Picture – 600x400 Left or Right pane – 150 x 600 Logos – 125 x 30 (Depending on Theme)
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Using Microsoft Photo Editor
BritLink 5 It is better to downsize a picture rather than make a small picture larger. The less you change in size the better the Quality of the image will be!
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