Chapter 9. Responsive Images

Designs will always be epic, iconic, and awe inspiring. However, when thinking about the medium that users will be viewing your design on, it might be best to save some of that awe for the details and content delivery speed.

Using images that work on a variety of devices can be challenging. Luckily, you can start using some techniques and solutions to take your design into the future.

Images Should Be Responsive

It used to be that the most difficult part of exporting an image was deciding whether it worked better as a JPEG or GIF file. Those were simple days when it usually came down to determining the number of colors used and deciding whether transparency was important to me.

Then came PNG files, the solution ...

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