This clear, helpful guide to using Photoshop for producing Web images focuses on Photoshop 4, with reference to version 3, and targets users who already know Photoshop fairly well. There’s lots of thorough discussion, large screen shots, and a full-color insert illustrating several examples in the book.
You first learn how to set preferences that decrease file size and how to load a browser-safe palette. Next you clean up and resize photos destined for Web output, adjust contrast levels, and improve images that you’ve output from video files and digital cameras. In helping you turn your existing images into Web images, the author discusses GIF and JPEG file formats, indexing, dithering, and browser-safe colors.
He teaches you how to create GIFs from scratch and work with transparencies to create special effects. He also teaches you how to create JPEG images, fine-tune compression settings, work with gray-scale images, and convert GIF images to JPEG. In subsequent chapters you learn how to create backgrounds; add interesting, readable type; design buttons and other navigational elements; convert raster images to vector images; and use Photoshop to perfect Web-page layouts. Appendices discuss the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) file format and present information on third-party software programs that complement Photoshop and aid Web-image production. –Kathleen Caster –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description
Photoshop for the Web shows you how to use the world’s most popular imaging software to create Web graphics and images that look great and download blazingly fast. The book is crammed full of step-by-step examples and real-world solutions from some of the country’s hottest Web producers, including HotWired, c|net,Discovery Online, Second Story, SFGate, and more than 20 others.
* Using Photoshop as a Web layout tool
* Making graphics and images leap from the screen
* Techniques for optimizing GIFs and JPEGs
* Avoiding the dreaded “halo” effect
* Improving digital photographs
* Working with browser-safe colors to create stunning images regardless of platform or hardware
* Quickly building Web backgrounds, buttons, and graphical type
* Avoiding color shifts when importing vector images
You first learn how to set preferences that decrease file size and how to load a browser-safe palette. Next you clean up and resize photos destined for Web output, adjust contrast levels, and improve images that you’ve output from video files and digital cameras. In helping you turn your existing images into Web images, the author discusses GIF and JPEG file formats, indexing, dithering, and browser-safe colors.
He teaches you how to create GIFs from scratch and work with transparencies to create special effects. He also teaches you how to create JPEG images, fine-tune compression settings, work with gray-scale images, and convert GIF images to JPEG. In subsequent chapters you learn how to create backgrounds; add interesting, readable type; design buttons and other navigational elements; convert raster images to vector images; and use Photoshop to perfect Web-page layouts. Appendices discuss the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) file format and present information on third-party software programs that complement Photoshop and aid Web-image production. –Kathleen Caster –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description
Photoshop for the Web shows you how to use the world’s most popular imaging software to create Web graphics and images that look great and download blazingly fast. The book is crammed full of step-by-step examples and real-world solutions from some of the country’s hottest Web producers, including HotWired, c|net,Discovery Online, Second Story, SFGate, and more than 20 others.
Topics include:
* Creating Photoshop Actions to automate Web production* Using Photoshop as a Web layout tool
* Making graphics and images leap from the screen
* Techniques for optimizing GIFs and JPEGs
* Avoiding the dreaded “halo” effect
* Improving digital photographs
* Working with browser-safe colors to create stunning images regardless of platform or hardware
* Quickly building Web backgrounds, buttons, and graphical type
* Avoiding color shifts when importing vector images
