Critical Skills

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You'll learn critical skills for building, slicing, and optimizing navigation graphics from the first two projects in this chapter. You'll use these skills to complete many of the projects in this book and over and over in your personal Web work. We urge you to work through these lessons first, even if you're dying to skip to another juicy lesson later in the book.

In the first project, Building a Navigation Bar, you learn how to put together a set of matching buttons for a navigation bar, taking advantage of time-saving construction techniques and special Web-oriented features in ImageReady. The emphasis here is on efficiency using one button as a template for an entire bar of matching buttons. The second project, Slicing and Optimizing a Navigation Bar, simplifies the seemingly complex tasks of slicing and optimizing individual components of a navigation bar. We explain how and why to slice, and we show you how to optimize slices in GIF and JPEG formats for fast download and display on the Web. The third project, Transparent Buttons, demonstrates how to surround navigation buttons with transparency to allow your Web page background to show through.

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    How to Wow(c) Photoshop for the Web
    How to Wow: Photoshop for the Web
    ISBN: 032130330X
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2006
    Pages: 87

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