Photoshop Text

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OK, I create Text with effects in Photoshop, save as a Gif, but yet, it doesn't matter how big I make the font, it appears the same size everytime on my web page. Am I messing something up when I save it or what? Thanks.

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I'm not quite sure what you're asking here - are you expecting the text to expand like HTML text does? Graphics can't expand like that - they will always have the pixel dimensions you give them.

It is possible to give graphics percentage dimensions, but this will distort most gif's and jpeg's badly and I don't think it's technically correct anyway.

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The thing is, after I save it, I can open the gif and its the size that I want. But when I upload to my web page its not that size.

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Have you checked the height and width attributes of your IMG tag? They should match the size of your original gif.

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OH MY GOSH. The most basic thing you can think of and I totally forget about it. That was it, I guess I had my mind so set on PS that HTML went out the door. Well thanks for answering my dumb question.

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