Photoshop, Painter, Prism, Apprentisce,
Logo Motion, MacroMedia Director are some of
the software that I use to create pictures and 
icons in my multimedia work. I also use my 
video camera to capture much of my digital 
work from my paintings and drawings. This 
section is under construction and I will be
adding many pictures to it with the next 
months. Keep checking here for my notes 
about the techniques I use.  
I use several techniques to make the 
gif images that I am using much smaller for 
quick download time. 
First, almost all monitors display
 graphics at 72dpi no matter how dense the 
resolution. Therefore, my graphics are never
more than 72dpi.
 Secondly, I make them small and tell 
Netscape to display them larger and this 
saves time and space. 
Thirdly, I use gif format and reduce the
 number of colors of my graphics to as low 
as 4. Many are fine at 32 colors and this 
saves space and time to download.




Russell Andavall

The FireGod

Links to Digital Photographs Pages