Need help with readability.

[Linbido]

Can someone hepl me out here? I'm trying to make an illustrated poem, but I run into some problems.

If I want to submit it to Lit there's a max size at 40k. To keep that, and not compress it into ugliness, I have to reduce the size. I'm afraid that also means reducing the readability. I just want some second opinion. Is this readable, or does it strain the eye too much? I of course know what it's supposed to say, so I'm not the best judge of that.

Also, the layout is intentionally twiggy, and again, I read lines and stanzas in the "right" order since it's in my head already. I need to make sure the visual directions goes the same way for other people.

Oh, and if anyone know of a more effective image compression than 8 color adaptive GIF via Photoshop for this one, please let me know. Woith original width of 450 pixels, I can't get it under 55k. It's beginning to annoy me.

luv,

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Lin, attach the original file. I may be able to do something with it.


and yes, it's very readable.

 

[Guest]

That's wonderful, lin. What a great idea. I found it perfectly readable too.

 

[Linbido]

Lin, attach the original file. I may be able to do something with it.


and yes, it's very readable.

Phew.

Seems I can't attached the original psd. It's too big even zipped, the best I can do is a 16 golor GIF in it's preferred width. Damn behemoth.

I don't normally compress things for the web, since I work for print media only, so there should be some tricks that I'm oblivious of.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Give me a few minutes to work with this, but if you want, you can email me the original file, no matter how big, to no-troy@clix.pt

 

[Linbido]

Give me a few minutes to work with this, but if you want, you can email me the original file, no matter how big, to no-troy@clix.pt

Mailed too. Thank you so much.

 

[Rybka]

Can someone hepl me out here? I'm trying to make an illustrated poem, but I run into some problems. . . .
luv,

If anyone can help you it is Lauren,Hynde! She is magnificant at this (as well as many other) kind of thing.

I would find the poem easier to read if the font was of a larger size, but there was only one word that I had to struggle with.

Creating it was fun, wasn't it? I had a lot of fun with my EYE CHART.

Regards, Rybka

 

[Linbido]

Re: Re: Need help with readability.

Creating it was fun, wasn't it?

Creating it was tedious as f**k. I had to find (sometimes create) gaps in the twigs, then choose words that would fit. Not really how I usually write stuff. But yes, it was refreshing, in an insane kind of way.

btw, your chart was one of the inspirations. But I'm a little confused. I'm quite sure that I remembered it having a slightly differrent layout before. Or am i just delusional?

 

[Rybka]

Re: Re: Re: Need help with readability.

Creating it was tedious as f**k. I had to find (sometimes create) gaps in the twigs, then choose words that would fit. Not really how I usually write stuff. But yes, it was refreshing, in an insane kind of way.

btw, your chart was one of the inspirations. But I'm a little confused. I'm quite sure that I remembered it having a slightly differrent layout before. Or am i just delusional?

Always glad to be topped at my own game. - Ya done good,kid!
You can see an earlier Word.doc version on Wicked Eve's site. The Lit. version is a JPG that I figured out how to do later. - The poem "Apples", also on Eve's site is more like yours, in that it is words on a pictorial background. Lauren.Hynde did that for me. I still can't figure out how to do that or what you did.

Regards, Rybka

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Re: Re: Need help with readability.

If anyone can help you it is Lauren,Hynde!

Thank you, Fishy.

I only try to do the best I can to help...

And there's no punctuation in my name now. I had it cirurgically removed a few days ago.

Lin? Check your email again.

 

[Linbido]

Re: Re: Re: Need help with readability.

Lin? Check your email again.

Got it now. Thank you thank you thank you!