With Web Designer's Guide to Graphics: PNG, GIF & JPEG, you don't just learn how to create Web graphics - you learn the art of Web design. Packed with clear tutorials and creative examples, this book is the easiest way to get up to speed on optimizing graphics for the Web. And after you've learned the basics, this book is also the best way to discover secrets to make your site stand out! Web Designer's Guide to Graphics: PNG, GIF & JPEG is the only book to take you step-by-step through creating PNG, GIF, and JPEG graphics and show you design techniques and tips for getting the most out of them.
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
This attractive, full-color book is an excellent guide for beginning and advanced Web designers who want to learn all about the .PNG, .GIF, and .JPG graphics file formats. The author, Timothy Webster, explains when it makes sense--or doesn't--to use each format, and he instructs you on how to optimize images saved in each. Before he delves into comparing the formats, he explains all you need to know about graphics, including monitors, bit-depth, resolution, palettes, anti-aliasing, compression, and interlacing. He covers both Windows and Macintosh platforms and refers to Netscape Navigator 2.0 and later and Internet Explorer 2.0 and later, as well as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Equilibrium's DeBabelizer in the book's projects. The hybrid CD-ROM includes project files, the PNG Live plug-in (for adding .PNG support to your browser), graphics utilities, and a demo version of DeBabelizer.
From the Publisher
Every Web designer will be using PNG, a graphics format that offers better quality and faster download times for Web graphics. As the first book to explore the new format in detail, this up-to-date, full-color tutorial and reference guides readers through the entire process of creating incredible graphics for the Web. - Provides clear, step-by-step instructions and full-color examples to illustrate when to use PNG, GIF or JPEG, how to increase image quality, and how to make file sizes smaller and faster
- Includes coverage of consistent, cross-platform display, color palette issues, and animations
- CD-ROM is loaded with example graphics in all formats and plug-ins and utilities for conversion and optimization
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
My Book of Choice on Web Graphics Theory,
By A Customer
This review is from: Web Designer's Guide to Graphics: Png, Gif & Jpeg (Paperback)
Timothy Webster provides a superior treatment of web graphics fundamentals, using clear and practical examples. Writing for both Windows and Mac, his Web Designer's Guide to Graphics first lays down a tight review of graphics file formats, monitors, color models, bit depth, resolution, palettes, anti-aliasing, compression and interlacing. Not stopping there, he gives pragmatic examples of when to use PNG, GIF and JPEG formats.The book's one major weakness is that many of the color screen shots used do not hold up well when printed. The occasional ineffective 1:1 screen shot is used to point out details which would only be recognizable if printed at the same size as its screen display counterpart. This problem, present in many of the current web design books, could be easily resolved by zooming in on the screen to show the slight differences in detail. That being said, out of all the many books that are available on web graphics, there are none that I've found which are more comprehensive and accurate than this one. Web Graphics Instructor
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
