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To be transparent, or not to be transparent?
That is the question…
The myPod logo is going to be placed on a light green
background, so you might think that transparency is going
to be a good thing, right? Well, let's compare how the logo
looks using a few options in the “Save for Web” dialog:
Here's wha
t we get if
we check
Transpare
ncy and save
. Better…
but what'
s that white
“halo”
around th
e letters in
the logo?
Th
e halos happe
n because th
e
ph
oto editing a
pplication cr
eates
a “
matte” to s
often the t
ext's
ed
ges against t
he backgrou
nd
co
lor. When it
did that for
this
log
o, however,
it assumed it
was
so
ftening the
edges against
a
wh
ite backgrou
nd.
