Hands On 9: Web Design and ImageReady

In this Hands On project, you ll lay out a website and use ImageReady to prepare the files for publication. The project is intended to take you through some of the Web features of ImageReady, but you will also use image-editing commands covered in previous chapters. The goal of this project is to assemble a home page for Ballet Bleu, an international ballet company (see Figure H9.1).

Figure H9.1: The finished home page

To see the finished version from this exercise, see Figure C59 in the color section.

Getting Started

Launch ImageReady and choose File ’ New. Name the new document ballet_bleu.psd in preparation for saving to disk. Enter 768 for the width and 480 for the height, and set the color to white, as in Figure H9.2. (These pixel dimensions work for displaying a browser on a 17 ² monitor.)

Figure H9.2: Settings for the new document