Patrick Taylor Web Design is a small web design and development consultancy working from Bolton in the UK. I specialise in hand-crafted custom web solutions for individuals, small businesses, and other bodies to create an elegant, effective, and standards-compliant presence on the World Wide Web. The service is also characterised by attention to detail, helpfulness, quick response, and affordability.
I doubt if there is really such a thing as telephoto perspective compression, also referred to by camera users and photography enthusiasts as perspective distortion or flattening, despite these terms being in common usage. What they are talking about is the way telephoto lenses or binoculars appear to foreshorten the view, making distant objects appear to bunch up against nearer ones. It's only an optical illusion.
Professional photgraphers and graphic designers will be aware that .jpg or .jpeg digital photographs that are to be edited several times should first be saved into a 'lossless' file format such as .tif (TIFF), .png, or .psd. This is because JPEG is a method of lossy compression for photographic images, using an algorithm to a standard specified by a committee called the Joint Photographic Experts Group.
This may seem academic, but anyone who enjoys messing around with .jpg images and ignores this fact risks degrading their quality bit by bit, until they end up with photos of significantly lower quality than the originals, which are perhaps lost forever.
Except for the casual hobbyist, running a modern website is not simply a matter of creating web pages then letting the Internet do the rest. A number of tools can be used to help a webmaster make sure the site is running properly and is performing its intended purpose. They are either free or inexpensive. Here are those I use myself:
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Publishing presentable content on the World Wide Web has become easier than ever. A smart looking design can be set up free, requires almost no technical knowledge, and takes only a few minutes.
