Photos look posterized on website

[Carol]

I can't figure out why some of my photos look fine while I'm creating my web
pages but then look posterized when I view the web page thru my browser. I'm
using Publisher 2000 and this does not happen to all the photos. I've tried
resizing them, importing them, and just dragging them onto the page. I don't
know why this happens and I've been unable to find an answer anywhere. Does
anyone have any input on this subject. I'm really perplexed... thanks

 

[DavidF]

Pub 2000 has a different html coding engine than you will find in the later
versions of Publisher, and it handles images in a different way. One
possible reason for your poor image quality may be that you cannot layer
images over text boxes and other design elements in Pub 2000 without
Publisher creating a new, combined image that is frequently lower quality.
Layer a .jpg image over a text box, and after converting to html, you will
have a .gif file of the original image and the text combined. If that isn't
the reason for your issue, post back with more details about the
circumstances of when it happens to you.

DavidF

 

[analog]

It may be the old problem with resizing photos in Publisher for the web. By
"posterized" do you mean that peculiar effect that was called "solarization"
back in silver nitrate dayz? This is caused by the peculiarities of JPG
compression, and the best solution is to preprocess pics with a decent photo
program before dropping them in Publisher. Use something like Adobe Photoshop
Elements to do the resizing rather than Publisher, or at least get close before
cropping in Publisher. Anyway, if you are careful, you can avoid that odd look.

 

[DavidF]

Hi Syd. Nice to see that you are still around.

DavidF

 

[analog]

Still around, and still using Publisher 2000. I must be insane...

How's you?

 

[DavidF]

That makes at least two of us. I have all versions of Publisher and still
prefer 2000.

DavidF