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Pixel-perfect social media graphics

How right-sized graphics can lend a whole new dimension to your online appearance

Tangled measuring tape

Most organizations would never send their leaders to a news conference in pizza-stained sweatpants and a moth-eaten Planet Hollywood t-shirt. But a startling number of them do the digital equivalent.

They stretch low-resolution logos and graphics to serve as cover images. They shovel photos online without noticing that the call to action is getting cropped out. Use intricate, complex images as pinkie-nail-sized profile photos.

The result is a blotchy, pixelated, distorted, unreadable mess.

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Skitch invites

A few weeks ago, I blogged about Skitch, the Mac-only screen-capture-and-annotation tool from Plasq, the people who brought you Comic Life.

Now I've been given a handful of invitations to their beta... and the first has already been spoken for. (Hello, Alex.) Whoever'd like theirs, just leave a comment below...

Update: And be sure to include your email address, either in the comment or via our contact page.

 

 

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Skitch: suddenly, screenshots are simpler

Funny thing – I was just thinking yesterday how unnecessarily complex it is to illustrate one of these posts with a screenshot, especially a cropped and annotated one.