Taking time this morning to give a special birthday shout out to our very own rock star – Danny Bates!
Danny always goes above and beyond for our team – we are grateful for him and his presence! He is kind, hardworking & he always has a positive outlook on life…. not to mention, his artwork slaps!🔥
Cheers to 27 years!🥂
What do you mean it’s lo-res?
Resolution for print images and web images are extremely different! Resolution in basic terms is the size of an image. It’s the density of dots that make up the image when printing. The bigger the resolution, the more detailed it is. The lower the resolution, the less detailed. Web images have a resolution of 72 dpi (dpi – dots per inch), while print images require a resolution of 300 dpi.
The goal of an image on a website is to get it to load fast. It’s useless to have massive images on your website when it takes forever to load.
So by using a 72 dpi image from a website and then trying to enlarge the image for print will not work. Photoshop will have to guess what pixels to fill in the gaps with extra color, which is why your image will print out fuzzy. Unfortunately the only real solution if you want a professional look is to get a different picture. Resizing a document down is okay however, as we’ve already got more than the amount of pixels we need.
Don’t try to trick the system. A lot of magic can happen in Photoshop, but creating pixels out of thin air isn’t one of them.
Click here to learn how to check the dpi of your picture.
Submitted by Caitlin Tuohy.
What is a font?
A font is the collection of characters.
What is a typeface?
The design for a set of characters.
A typeface is not font. A font is not a typeface.
Confused yet?
The term font is often used as a synonym for typefaces, which is not technically correct. For most people who are not in the design world, they only think of about fonts when choosing one in Microsoft Word. The two terms frequently cause some confusion to those unfamiliar with the difference.
Typeface = a type family’s design
Think of a typeface as a set of characters of the same design. A typeface is the ‘design’ of the design of the alphabet, the shape of the letters that make up the typestyle. Typefaces describe the overall look of the characters.
Font = one member of a type family
A font, on the other hand, is traditionally defined as a complete character set within a typeface, often of a particular size and style. Fonts are also specific computer files that contain all the characters and glyphs within a typeface.
A typeface is like a jukebox while font is the tunes inside.
Contributed by Caitlin Tuohy.
