Part VIIL: Photoshop for Webbies

Chapter List

Chapter 18: Spinning Graphics for the Web

Chapter 19: Slicing and Dicing Images

In this part . . .

The chapters in Part VII help you get started creating great Web graphics. If you are creating web pages, these chapters move you on down the road that takes your graphics from blah to fabulous. Photoshop and its sister program ImageReady provide world-class tools for preparing graphics for the Web.

Chapter 18 takes you through the basics of creating graphics for the Web using Photoshop and ImageReady, Photoshop’s sister program. You find out about many of the new features in ImageReady, including the enhanced performance between the two programs, making it easier to jump back and forth between the programs. You’ll discover which formats work best for the Web, which color palettes to use, and how to optimize images — keeping the file size down while preserving the display quality. After optimizing images, you find out how to save them. The end of the chapter discusses how to create type for the Web with ImageReady.

Slices are the fundamental building block for most of the graphic effects that you can create using Photoshop and ImageReady. Chapter 19 explains why and how to slice an image for the Web. Find out about the different types of slices you can create and how to duplicate, copy, and convert one type of slice to another. In addition, you can find out how to optimize individual slices within the same image using different file formats. After all the slicing, you can use the image map tools to create hotspots on your Web graphic and assign hyperlinks and alternate text to them.

Discover how to create rollovers and GIF animations in the bonus chapter. Visit www.dummies.com/go/photoshop_cs_fd . Using the Web Content and Animation palettes you’ll have your graphics jumping around the Web page in no time.