Well, as far as a well thought-out tutorial (Warning, PIMPCON LEVEL 4!), I've put a good many days into
this one for modelling in Rhino3D and converting said model into trueSpace and FreeSpace.
And now, our first lesson comes to us by way of an example of what
not to do: :wink:
Originally posted by vadar_1
Here we have a dialog box with sharp borders between colors (the text) and no smooth color gradations except for the title bar, which is near-negligable.
Now,while JPG's are good for photos and photo-realistic renders - basically, anything that simulates the look of "reality", it is far from the best format to use for images such as this, or cartoon-like illustrations. As you can see, this image, currently a JPEG, has noticable image noise around the text and sharp-edged illustration. For such images, use GIFs.

That has been your lesson for today, kids! I hope you learned something. If you want to know the
why, lemme know and I'll write something up.

Oh, and Vadar: thanks for the example - it was good timing (and quite hilarious, I might add...

).