Chapter 25: Web Design with Photoshop and ImageReady

Overview

The Web is the world s most recent and dynamic publishing phenomenon . It gives you instant access to an enormous amount of information and entertainment. The Web is like having at your fingertips a several-million-volume encyclopedia that is revised hourly with the latest information. In addition to being able to access information, you can also publish your ideas and images instantaneously on the Web. Photoshop has many features that enable you to efficiently publish images to the Web.

Adobe, recognizing the need for streamlined, Web-specific software, bundles ImageReady with Photoshop to provide powerful tools to the Web designer. ImageReady can help you create images and animations and generate HTML code for browser-ready websites . ImageReady is fairly easy to learn because, in many respects, it closely resembles Photoshop. In fact, the two programs share many of the same capabilities.

This chapter will cover the cool Web- related stuff that Photoshop and ImageReady can do. It will take you through several step-by-step processes so that you can begin creating and optimizing images and animations for the Web.

This chapter will include these topics:

• Creating Web page elements

• Optimizing images

• Slicing graphics

• Working with transparency

• Web-safe color and Web formats