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Create Eye-Popping Web Graphics

Creating graphics for use on websites or in Internet marketing can be quite a challenge, even for those who are trained in the use of professional programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Graphic design programs can be overwhelming for new users, with a long learning curve. For those who just want a few professional-looking graphics for use in a blog or website, purchasing design software is really cost-prohibitive. Outsourcing (finding someone to create your graphics for you) is often difficult and also expensive.

New website owners, blog journalists, or people newly involved in selling products online, be it on eBay or with their own domain names, often discover that it is easy to get started but much more difficult to make their pages look like they want them to look. Not only is there a whole new world of HTML to learn, but also a whole new world of "graphics" to learn, with a language of its own.

CMYK
RGB
PPI
DPI
PNG
JPG
GIF ...

and many more. What do these acronyms mean? What to use where? How to get a photograph in the proper format, with the proper dimensions? Hundreds of other similar questions.

Digital cameras have made it much easier, and today, you can purchase a good digital camera that will provide usable images for a very affordable price. This gets your pictures on the computer (without having to use a scanner), but what to do next?

People with Photoshop and training know what to do next, and many of them have it down to an art -- being able to convert a photographic image into a header or an ad. They know how to add text, and how to make the text look fantastic for attention-grabbing displays. But even then, they must boot up their design programs, select settings, create their designs, and save them in the proper format. Then there's the problem of file storage, file organization -- finding something once you have created and saved it, when you need that file again.

There is a new service that has just become available that will be of tremendous benefit not only to people who do not own graphic design software nor know how to use it, but also to seasoned professionals as well. It is web-based and definitely "Web 2.0" - meaning designed from the get-go to provide the quality, eye-grabbing graphics that are used on the newest, most up-to-date, hugely popular websites of today. This service provides hundreds of templates and setting options, allowing you to click your way to gorgeous graphics in seconds, and saves your work on their servers, ready for you to return, tweak a bit, and save the new version.

Folks who work on different computers will find this service invaluable. No longer will you spend much of your time just collecting the components that you need to produce your graphic, or try to remember the settings you used before. It's all there, saved for you!

If you are looking for sizzling graphics for your website or blog or promotional ad, check out this very affordable service. You'll save tons of time and frustration, and be utterly amazed at what YOU can produce. Training videos are available in the members area.


Contributor's Note

The image here was my first, created in seconds -- online, saved for future editing. It is only one example of the many fonts and effects users have to choose from. I'm a seasoned Photoshop user and I love this online tool!

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Contributed by Karen S. Taylor on April 25, 2008, at 3:27 PM UTC.

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