Chapter 17. To the Web

Most of our work is done for print output. But even die-hard print designers sometimes have to move over to web assignments for example, adding some Photoshop or Illustrator images to a web site, converting an InDesign brochure into a web page, or creating simple animations from static artwork.

While you expect to find web features in GoLive and ImageReady, you might not realize how many web-related features are in our favorite print applications and how easy it is to create sophisticated web images in them.

In this chapter we'll look at the web tools that you find in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat. We'll compare the web features found in Photoshop with the features in ImageReady.

We're not going to look at the web features in GoLive. It's a web-layout program, after all, so everything in it qualifies as going "to the web." We will, however, look at some of the special features that help the other programs work better with GoLive.

When we started working on this book, the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe had not been completed. Fortunately, as we're finishing the book, the acquisition has just become final. So we'll also take a moment to talk about the role of Macromedia Flash technology and how it relates to the Creative Suite applications.

Finally, we'll look at other electronic information-delivery systems such as mobile phones and hand-held devices. These devices are the future of the web.