JPEG is fine for most presentation requirements, provided that the compression is not to high when the JPEG file is made.

If your images are large and paint up slowly on the screen try saving them as PNG files, they should then paint up quicker than JPEG files, but the overall size of your PowerPoint presentation file may be larger.

You should ensure that all bitmap images (i.e. scans etc.) are saved as RGB format files, rather than CYMK. This simply means that the colour information in your image is made up from RED, GREEN and BLUE (RGB) rather than CYAN, MAGENTA, YELLOW and BLACK (CYMK). Computer screens and  projectors all build up images using RGB, however colour printers tend to use CYMK to reproduce colour images.

Posted by Charlotte Lamb, designer at I to Eye.

For my first blog post (ever) I am going to take a quick look at one of our more recent web design projects and examine some of the the reasons behind the decisions I made when designing it.

 Janet Ashfield of Mpowerme is a life coach and she came to I to Eye for a re-design of her existing website. In contrast to many clients Janet already had a lot of written material for the site and because of her existing site she also had ideas about how the site would be structured and the audience she wanted to reach. So my contribution more than anything else was to provide a design that would allow her text to become the centre of attention and provide a means for the visitor to navigate through the pages easily.

So the design became a series of boxed links on the hame page to allow visitors to locate the precise service they were interested in and an array of links across the top of the pages so any page can be accessed at any time.

 I followed the style and colours of the logo Janet already had closely because it had a lot of impact and it felt right to extend it across the website balanced by the white background of the pages.

 Go and visit the website here.