Photoshop CS3 for the Web Essential Training [CD-ROM]

Jan Kabili (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 26, 2007

Covering everything from setting up the interface to optimizing photos to using tools like the Web Photo Gallery, Photoshop CS3 for the Web Essential Training is a beginner course for anyone using Photoshop CS3 to create or edit images for the web. Instructor Jan Kabili explains the difference between web and print graphics, demonstrates how to create color swatches, discusses layers and slices, teaches how to create integral web page elements, and much more. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Topics Include:

• Customizing the interface
• Understanding the Bridge interface
• Working with layers
• Creating custom color swatches
• Using vector-based type
• Creating web graphics from scratch
• Optimizing images for the web
• Creating web backgrounds and navigation tools
• Animating GIFs
• Optimizing and saving slices
• Installing the lynda.com rollover script
• Automating processes

Duration: 8.5 hours
On 1 DVD-ROM

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From the Publisher

Each lynda.com CD/DVD course offers hours of training movies that you watch on your computer. The movies are recorded in pixel-perfect quality, and include the authors' narration and movements as they teach the subject matter. Courses include the same project files that the instructors use, so you can follow along at your own pace. lynda.com tutorials are great for visual learners and people who like to learn by doing. Topics include software applications, workflow optimization, tips and techniques, and much more. Play, fast-forward, and rewind for easy learning.

About the Author

Jan Kabili is a popular digital arts author and educator. She was lead instructor in the classroom at lynda.com, where she helped Lynda develop the Adobe training program. She's written numerous books and publications on Adobe software, she blogs professionally for the Weblogs Inc network, and she s a professor of digital art. Jan's books include: How to Wow: Photoshop CS2 for the Web, Photoshop CS Complete Course, Photoshop 7 Complete Course, Photoshop Elements Complete Course, Photoshop Image Ready Hands on Training for the Web (with Lynda Weinman). In addition Jan also writes publications for Photoshop User, Mac Design, and Photoshop CS/CS2 Wow book. In her spare time Jan beta test software for Adobe.

Product Details

• CD-ROM
• Publisher: lynda.com, Inc (September 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596713755
• ISBN-13: 978-1596713758
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,613,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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