Poster Pallette

This palette has a ton of shades of black and dark purple. It all looks very similar, but I guess these are all different shades so, meh. Super duper easy.

Poster

Now enjoy this poster that took way too long to make :) I'm very pleased with it. How awesome would that concert be??? And on my birthday too... Very fun project!

Matchbox Design

This is my package design for a matchbox. A blank copy of the template was used for the inside drawer of the box. Johnny Was is a store in the West Field Mall, it's real.

File Formats

ORIGINAL PICTURE

GIF 32 DITHERED

GIF 32 NO DITHER

GIF 64 DITHERED

GIF 64 NO DITHER

GIF 128 DITHERED

GIF 128 NO DITHER

GIF RESTRICTIVE

JPEG HIGH

JPEG MEDIUM

JPEG LOW

PNG-24

PNG-8 128 DITHERED

So... From this long sequence of pictures, we can see that visually PNG-24 is the best looking picture go the bunch. The file is very high quality, but it is a bigger file size at 139 kb. Not ideal, it even took a while to load the picture onto this post.

The lowest quality I see here is the GIF Restrictive file. The sky has turned into oil you see on the road and the trees almost look like they were photoshopped into the picture. That file is smaller at 25 kb. It is smaller, but not the smallest.

The picture with the smallest file size was the JPEG Low file. It's file size is 9 kb. Although it is compact, it's quality is maybe second to the GIF Restrictive file. The format is not very pretty to look at.

The picture with the best balance of quality and file size is the JPEG High format picture. It is 30 kb and the picture looks just crisp enough with out too much blur or pixels. 

Now for the Gradient picture...

And may I say there are many versions of this picture like the one above, but for the most part they all look very similar and it was difficult to choose extremes of this one.

ORIGINAL PICTURE

GIF 32 DITHERED

GIF 32 NO DITHER

GIF 64 DITHERED

GIF 64 NO DITHER

GIF 128 DITHERED

GIF 128 NO DITHER

GIF RESTRICTIVE

JPEG HIGH

JPEG MEDIUM

JPEG LOW

PNG-24

PNG-8 128 DITHERED

Did you enjoy the mix of red and blue colors? I bet.

Of these pictures, the biggest file size is the PNG-24 at 79 kb, it is also the best looking quality, although the PNG-8 128 Dithered comes pretty close, that one is 16 kb. I would use the PNG-8 128 Dithered File format because it is significantly smaller that the PNG-24 and it looks almost exactly like the PNG-24 file. Another file that differs just a bit in quality is the JPEG High file format, that one is 11 kb. So If you're willing to sacrifice just a tad of HD quality, the JPEG High file format looks to be the best of this group of pictures to use on the internet.

The worst one of the bunch (visually) is the GIF Restrictive file format. So far, I'm really seeing this format as useless unless the colors you are using are black and white. The GIF Restrictive file is 6 kb. Quite small, compared to the other ones, but not the smallest. The smallest file size of these guys is the JPEG Low format at 4 kb. If you didn't mind that the picture was a bit blotchy and pixely, then I guess the JPEG Low file format would work well for this picture.

Overall, the JPEG High file format won in this decision. It has proved to be a good quality picture and a moderate file size that it is not too big for internet viewing. The worst was the GIF Restrictive file format, it always turned out blocky and had hard lines that did now work with most of the alternating colors.

PNG-24 is the best looking, and the biggest file format. JPEG High is a good looking medium size that is suitable for internet viewing. JPEG Low is the smallest size for file formats, but doesn't have near the quality of any of the other ones. GIF Restrictive is weird and doesn't work for anything unless it's a stickman in black with a white background. There are so many choices.... It just depends on what you would like to be viewing.