[thelist] Problems with Graphics

Janey wrote:
> I thought I should make 
> the graphics in .gif format, too. But when I did,
> they looked grainy...like crap. Will a .gif format work for drop 
> shadows and beveled edges?  I thought .gifs were for
> straight lined drawings and graphics.

It sounds like you were not controlling the dithering and that, perhaps, you were making a "Web colors" gif 
without shifting the major fill colors to nearby web-color hues (such shifting is very easy to do in ImageReady, 
and, I would presume, in Fireworks as well)