Items tagged with png

Link // 01.17.2008 // 2:17 PM // 0 CommentsCSS Gradient Text Effect using transparent PNGs

I don’t really see using transparent PNGs as a new effect — I wrote about it in Web Standards Creativity, and I know several designers who have been doing it for quite a while. Still, it’s a great effect, and this is a nice demo of how it’s done. Visit site »

Link // 09.18.2007 // 11:53 AM // 0 CommentsNathan Borror: Manually Compressing PNGs

My former colleague and good friend Nathan has discovered a very clever way to drastically reduce the file size of many 24bit PNG images with transparency exported from Photoshop. Awesome. Visit site »

Link // 04.10.2006 // 9:21 PM // 0 CommentsThe Sad Story of PNG Gamma “Correction”

So true. PNGs should have eliminated GIFs years ago. Too bad you can’t color-match them with CSS for shit. Visit site »

Link // 03.23.2005 // 4:12 PM // 0 CommentsAlpha-PNGs as Overlays

While not revolutionary, it’s certainly clever and is put into easy-to-follow steps. I’ve done something similar for a project here at K-State. It works nicely (if not with valid CSS, thanks to our old friend Internet Explorer). Visit site »