Dreamweaver white logo

Question

Hi. Can anyone help me with:
I am creating an orange background in Dreamweaver and I want
to bring in/place a white logo on the orange background. How can I
do this? I can usually save an image in illustrator as an EPS to a
design program and it works. But saving an image to a JPEG, GIF or
PING does not transfer a white, knocked out image to Dreamweaver.
Does it?
Alternately, I can design the orange background with the
white logo in Fireworks and save it as a PING then transfer it to
Dreamweaver, but that may be too slow to download.
Thanks, in advance!

Answer 1

If you are saving an image that should be a JPG, then a PNG
will definitely
be larger than the corresponding JPG and that includes your
gradient-type
images. And by the way, I would never do one as a PNG with
transparency.
If you are saving an image that should NOT be a JPG than a
PNG will either
be the same size or smaller than the corresponding GIF. It
just could not
be larger.
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"Jay Jay" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Mmmm... probably doing something wrong then... my
workflow is PS -> Save
> for web. i *generally* find that .pngs are larger than
.gifs and .jpgs. So
> i only use them when i have a raster feel or a raster
image that needs
> transparency.
>
> However, find that the great thing about .pngs is that
they support
> transparency for rasters... so, invaluable where you
want a gradient
> effect with transparency - which .gif effs up and .jpg
can't handle.
>
> Will now relook more carefully based on Michael's and
your comments...
>
> Cheers and have a great weekend guys!
>
> JJ
>
>
>
>
> "Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
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>> PNG files will almost always be 10% to 15% smaller
than the corresponding
>> GIF file simply due to the difference Micha
mentions. They could be even
>> smaller if the parent image happens to have VERTICAL
texture. GIF
>> compression is row-by-row, and PNG compression is
not, so on an image
>> with vertical texture, GIF fails miserably....
>>
>> --
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>>
>> "Michael Fesser" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> .oO(Jay Jay)
>>>
>>>>"Walt F. Schaefer" wrote:
>>>>>> a jpg
>>>>>
>>>>> JPG is almost never the correct format
for a logo.
>>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>If your logo is flat colours, then .gif or
maybe .png is the way to go.
>>>>If
>>>>it has gradients (blends), shadows, etc., the
.jpg or .png is the way
>>>>to
>>>>go.
>>>
>>> JPEG is for photographs. It will always affect
the image quality and
>>> colors, even on the lowest compression rate. For
logos and similar
>>> artwork PNG is the format of choice.
>>>
>>>>Generally, it's about file size and
appearance... so the choice depends
>>>>on
>>>>the trade off between file size and image
quality loss.
>>>
>>> Primarily it depends on the type of image which
format to chose.
>>>
>>>>Aside: Generally, i find that .png is a
larger file than .gif or .jpg.
>>>
>>> For photos this is no surprise, because that's
what JPEG is optimized
>>> for. For other images you should check and
adjust the PNG settings. With
>>> settings similar to GIF (up to 256 palette
colors, only single-color
>>> transparency) the files will almost always be
smaller than GIF, because
>>> PNG has the better algorithms. Of course if you
use true color and alpha
>>> transparency, then files might get bigger, but
you'll get better quality
>>> as well.
>>>
>>> Micha
>>
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