Servage Magazine

  Because a web page is published over a network, it needs to zip through the lines as little packets of data in order to reach the end user. It is fairly intuitive, then, that larger amounts of data will require a longer time to arrive. And guess which part of a standard web page packs a whole lotta bytes— that’s right, the graphics. Thus is born the conflicted relationship with graphics on the Web. On the one hand, images make a web page more interesting than text alone, and the ability to display graphics is one of the factors contributing to the Web’s success. On the other hand, graphics also try the ...

Graphic designers often favor Photoshop, and it has been so for a very long time. I remember that Photoshop was an extremely print-graphics friendly tool during the print-era and was extensively used by the digital image processing professionals. With advent of technologies the importance of print media declined and the rise of web phenomena occurred. Gradually Photoshop also became web friendly and many new tools and techniques have been included. Such advancements are continuing with the release of back-to-back versions. Today Photoshop has managed to move from print to web and maintain it's status as a top piece of software. Unfortunately, also a very expensive piece of software. Despite these all, ...