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Resources

ONLINE RESOURCES

Photoshop Reference Guide
From Peachpit Press

Photoshop.com
Learning Pages

Photoshoponline.com
Video Tutorials

Planet Photoshop
Resource hub for popular sites and current practices

BOOKS

Photoshop Bible
The bestselling, comprehensive reference on Photoshop, fully updated to CS5

TOOLS

BBEdit
The leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh.

Format

Characteristics of images for the web

• Format
• Color
• Size and Resolution
• Speed
• Transparency
• Animation

These are the principal differences between images prepared for print and images prepared for the web.

Save for the Web

• Save for the Web
• GIF
• JPEG
• PNG

Tiled Images

• Devise a repeating pattern
• Configure the seam
• Reduce color information and Save

Tiling Exercises

Homework

• Read CHAPTER 16; Retouching
• Read CHAPTER 18; More Layers
• Sketch out a website for your photo gallery

Site Design

Consider Content

• Wire frame
• Organize and label layers
• Build swatch libraries
• Prep image sizes

Animation

Interactivity

• Slide Shows
• Roll Overs

"Photoshop is not a verb. It is a noun. It is the means to an end, not the end itself."