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This update to Lynda Weinman's highly successful Designing Web Graphics series addresses the new technologies related to Web site design, such as dynamic HTML (DHTML), the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format, and standardized red-green-blue (sRGB). It also discusses the new software programs that help you create and optimize Web graphics, such as Adobe ImageReady and Macromedia Fireworks. Weinman also deals with the old favorites, such as Photoshop and Paintshop Pro, and continues to focus on creating good-looking, compact graphics, as opposed to writing HTML, say, or setting up a server.
Weinman helps you develop your career in the area of Web graphics by setting goals, building a portfolio, and making your work and talent known. She helps you optimize graphics and work with the best file formats and color palettes for your purpose. You'll learn color-related concepts such as spectrum, hue, and saturation; choose effective color schemes; create links, buttons, image maps, tables, frames, animated GIFs, and JavaScript rollovers; work with type and DHTML; fine-tune HTML to alter text, tables, links, and more; and work with plug-ins and QuickTime 3.0.
The book has many large, useful illustrations and screen shots, and the text is simple, straightforward, and geared successfully for relative newcomers. --Kathleen Caster
Product Description
Designing Web Graphics.3 is being completely revised and updated to cover the latest web technologies. The book will feature all new images and text, a new interior design, and a new cover. Written in Lynda's trademark style, Designing Web Graphics.3 will provide extensive step-by-step coverage of how today's best and most-used web tools, including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Paint Shop Pro, Photo-Paint and more are used to create web images and media. Designing Web Graphics.3 will also include real-world examples, case studies, and galleries of the web<173>s best content. The book will cover the following new topics: HTML editors; Web strategies; Cross-platform and cross-browser fonts; Tools for optimization; Understanding links; Color theory; Plug-ins; Using frames for alignment; Using tables for margins; Using tables for animation; Cascading style sheets; Fixing bad scans; DHTML; QuickTime 3.0; WebTV; Flash, RealAudio; RealVideo; Dreamweaver; Fireworks; and ImageReady.