Archive for December 9th, 2008

The Myth of Hollywood’s “Enhance!”

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

As a web designer, I need photos and illustrations to put on websites. Frequently, these are provided by the site owners. Every now and then, I get a completely unusable image which results in them either having to track down a new image or me spending time re-creating that image. That’s right: if you fax me a copy of your logo, I can’t use it on your website, business cards, or anything else.

This leads to confusion on the part of the site owner who asks, “isn’t there a program that will fix that?”.

Ah Hollywood, I love you, but some days I want to smack you in the nose with a rolled-up newspaper.

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