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January 05, 2005
Web graphics without tears
Until now, web graphics could only be easily created by graphic designers. Now there are 2 packages that let you design your web page graphics without having to know a thing about graphic design - Xara Webstyle 4 and Netstudio.
Recently when I've tried to learn web graphics so I could add simple banners and backgrounds to my webpages. I experienced nothing but pain. Photoimpact which I bought for "ease of use" turned out to be talking a completely different language to me: "layers", "merges", "layer effects", "grouping", "filters".
Why couldn't I just create a straight banner or table background that worked? I couldn't figure the simple instructions to do this in Photoimpact.
I finally found the reason why many graphics software are difficult - simply, none of them are created for webmasters. Webmasters do NOT think in terms of "filters", "fill effects" and so on, they think of "banners", "backgrounds", "navigation bars", "color", "photos" and that's about it!
Packages like Photoshop, Photoimpact etc are primarily photo and image editing packages. They are NOT primarily web graphics tools.
This creates a nightmare for the webmaster who suddenly finds he has to learn a load of designer gibberish.
Xara Webstyle and Netstudio are the 2 packages I highly recommend for busy webmasters trying to get on with the job of creating website images without learning a new terminology.
Whether or not these tools are good as Photoshop is not the point. The point is that they are the only graphics tools made for those that have no knowledge of design.
Posted by onelukey at January 5, 2005 03:35 PM
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