About the images on Joe Pivetti's Personal Website

Images on this site include photos, logos and doodles.  Here is a little bit on how these were made for the site.

About the JoePivetti.com photos

There isn't a lot to say about putting snapshots on the internet other than I cropped and resized them with software included in Windows (Microsoft Office Picture Manager) or sometimes I did the same with MS Paint.  I resized the photos to 500 pixels (wide or high, whichever made for a smaller image) so that they fit in two columns and so that they load fast and don't take up much host storage space.  The photos look okay at this size but can't really be pirated away as the full resolution isn't there.

About the JoePivetti.com logos

When it comes to graphics I prefer a pencil and paper but that doesn't make for the best images when scaled down to a 100 to 200 pixels for a corner page logo so I had to do a bit of graphic design.  There are free CAD programs available on the internet but it's much easier to make a square grid in Excel and use the simple graphic elements provided by Office software.  From Excel I just copied and pasted to a freeware program with layers capability named Artweaver Free (this is easier than using Paintshop of Photoshop).  I saved to various formats and I guess that the smallest and simplest is GIF which also allows for transparent background (so you can put it on any color background and only the image is visible - this is nice unless you just want a simple white or colored canvas).

About the JoePivett.com doodles

I am having a hard time remembering how I doodled up the Joe Spaghetti images.  I think that I roughed them out on the back of a napkin and then traced them with a digitizer.  Unfortunately, I lost many of the electronic files and had to scan some from a printout where images were smaller than a 10 cent postage stamp.