Office Live General Graphics Tips

* Never resize your graphics in Office Live’s web designer. This causes distortion and loss of resolution. Grab one of the free programs below and resize your images in those programs.

Right click an image to choose how the image will be aligned with other page elements. (Float Left, Float Right, No Text Wrapping).

Small images can have as much impact as large ones.

Large images can be overwhelming for viewing and browsers.

* The Office Live Image uploader automatically reduces image resolution to maintain reasonable bandwidth requirements for your site. This can result in poor image quality. Save your image at a higher resolution before uploading it to avoid drastic resolution problems. 

Including an image as a hyperlink button via the HTML module retains it’s resolution and makes for an interesting button.

If you use the “Slideshow” module don’t put it on your home page as it often causes a browser error. Hopefully MS will get the module fixed soon.

If you use the “Slideshow” module keeps its size small to avoid load errors and time issues.

Always give the “Image Gallery” time to load all the pictures before uploading or selecting images. Being in a hurry can result in an error which prevents you from accessing it.

Images and graphics created on the computer can be catagorized into two color definition categories, CMYK and RGB depending on their color information and they can also classified as Vector or Raster - depending on how information is stored.
CMYK, [Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (K)], images are used in the print media such as magazines, newspapers etc. Printing machines use inks of these four colors. Other colors are derived by mixing these four fundamental colors in appropriate proportions.
RGB takes its name from Red, Green and Blue colors. RGB images are meant for display on display screens such as computer monitors, TVs, LCD monitors etc. These devices use 3 basic colors and all other colors are made by mixing red, green and blue.
RGB images can be stored in various file formats. Common RGB image formats are the TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) and BMP (Bitmap). Most image editing and manipulation tools have their proprietary formats, such as .PSD (Adobe PhotoShop), .PSP or .PSPIMAGE (PaintShop Pro) etc.
Typically images on the web are .GIF, JPG and .PNG. These formats employ compression algorithms that decrease the file size of the image. This compression allows for faster download times. Office Live does not handle .png files well. Convert .png files to .jpg files for Office Live.