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sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sun May 10, 09 10:30 am Post subject: resizing a banner, slight idiocy here
I'm trying to make a new banner ad (for Ginkotree's excellent courses), and I've got the basic design made to the right proportions in powerpoint, which I save as a gif file, but when I try to resize it to a scale where it will work online, I'm losing all the text definition and its going blurry. I know its something stupid I'm doing, but can't see the wood for the trees at the moment.

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Posted: Sun May 10, 09 11:20 am Post subject:
Can you resize it in powerpoint before saving it? Once it's a gif then the text will be treated as an image and can go lumpy if resized.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sun May 10, 09 12:08 pm Post subject:
that must be what I'm doing wrong, I want to save it to a certain pixel size, but powerpoint only lets me save it in cm, or am I missing something?

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Posted: Sun May 10, 09 12:25 pm Post subject:
Are you able to upload the GIF here so that we can get an idea of what you are trying to do? I am not sure how much use Powerpoint is for this kind of thing. A proper graphics program might be quicker and simpler. I am not an expert but I could possibly help, or maybe someone else here has more skill at this.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sun May 10, 09 12:29 pm Post subject:
its nothing fancy, draft version currently looks like this

OP

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Posted: Sun May 10, 09 12:34 pm Post subject:
I can probably re-size that for you if you send the highest res original you can. What font is it?

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sun May 10, 09 12:41 pm Post subject:
Papyrus but I've just downloaded gimp, which I vaguley recall used to be quite good for this sort of thing, so I'll see if I can do better in that and if I draw a blank again I may be back to take you up on your very kind offer. I know I can do this, just being dense today I think

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Posted: Sun May 10, 09 12:46 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

...but I've just downloaded gimp, which I vaguley recall used to be quite good for this sort of thing, so I'll see if I can do better in that and if I draw a blank again I may be back to take you up on your very kind offer.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Sun May 10, 09 1:10 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

that must be what I'm doing wrong, I want to save it to a certain pixel size, but powerpoint only lets me save it in cm, or am I missing something?

Looking at an existing banner the 468 x 60 pixel banners work out at 165.10 x 21.17 mm if that's any help (with a 72 ppi resolution which seems to be the same as the banner you've posted).

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sun May 10, 09 1:17 pm Post subject:
ugh, gimp is working to a point, but I just cannot find out how to resize text in it, have read the help files and all the things they say to click just don't exist, grrrr

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Posted: Sun May 10, 09 2:19 pm Post subject:
Are you trying to resize the file that you imported from Powerpoint? If so that probably will not work - far easier to import the 2 photos into GIMP, then create the text from scratch etc.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sun May 10, 09 2:39 pm Post subject:
thats what I'm trying to do, got the pics in fine, gat a text box up, but can't find a way to alter the text size anywhere. Have now been through at least 20 different web pages about how to do this, and none of them tell me where to find the tool to alter text size, its doing my head in

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Sun May 10, 09 3:18 pm Post subject:
To alter text characteristics in GIMP you should have a "tool box" that you select the text option and then the bottom bit of the "tool box" shows you the font, size etc.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sun May 10, 09 4:10 pm Post subject:
Found it eventually, as I said, slight idiocy, the toolbox was open but teh relevant bit was hiding off the page and I just couldnt see it think we're getting there now though!

CAMITTAD

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Posted: Mon May 11, 09 1:45 am Post subject: Banner Problems help please...WMF know anything about it?

I'm having the same problems with my banner. I'm using powerpoint but my images are coming out somewhat blurry and I want my banner to have clear line and images. When I do a test run on my website I see the fuzziness in the banner. I was reading something about saving the banner as WMF but I don't know exactly how that would work and wanted to know if anybody has and ideas or suggestions on how to design your own professional banner from scratch?

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