Using Google’s AI tool, Bard, for blog content…

by | Mar 25, 2023 | Tech

AI can help with your business blog in a number of ways, including:

  • Generating ideas for blog posts. AI can use natural language processing to analyze your past blog posts, social media posts, and other online content to identify topics that your audience is interested in. This can help you to come up with new ideas for blog posts that are relevant to your target audience.
  • Writing the first draft of a blog post. AI can use natural language generation to write a first draft of a blog post based on the topic that you have chosen. This can save you a lot of time and effort, as you will not have to start from scratch.
  • Editing and proofreading blog posts. AI can use natural language processing to identify errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation in your blog posts. This can help you to ensure that your blog posts are free of errors and easy to read.
  • Publishing blog posts. AI can use natural language generation to create social media posts, email newsletters, and other types of content that can be used to promote your blog posts. This can help you to reach a wider audience and drive traffic to your blog.

Making Sense of Logo File Formats

by | Aug 30, 2019 | Tech

When a branding project wraps up, the designer usually turns over a set of logo files. It can be overwhelming knowing which format to use in particular situations. These brief guidelines should help clarify the differences to help avoid the dreaded “pixelated” logo problem.

Vector files

A logo created in professional design software like Adobe Illustrator works with vectors. They’re built using mathematical points and don’t have an assigned resolution. For that reason, they don’t lose quality when scaled up in size. They’re also the most preferred format for release to another designer, publisher, printer or vendor. Particularly when you’re printing your logo, you’ll want to use the vector file. It will look clean whether printed on a brochure or scaled up to an oversized banner.

Formats: AI (Adobe Illustrator), EPS, PDF (as long as it was created in a vector program) or SVG (gaining popularity as a vector-based web format).

Rasterized files

Any files that are rasterized have a set resolution, much like a photo file. When an image is increased in size, the quality can suffer. This is often the case when a logo appears pixelated. However, if you start with a high resolution image and don’t scale it larger than the original size, the quality should be fine.
There are a variey of popular formats, but each have different characteristics.

Perhaps the most popular format is JPEG (.jpg). It’s a fairly universal format and has a compact file size. However, it does not support transparency. This means if the logo is placed on a color background, it will appear with an opaque white box behind the logo that extends to the full size of the image.

For web or presentation purposes, there are several formats which can appear transparent (if they are prepared appropriately): GIF, PNG, or TIFF.

The bottom line… if you’re sending logo files for a print job, vector is always preferable. For the web, there are several acceptable rasterized formats, but be careful not to enlarge the logo above its original size.