Overview
You know how to use the features in Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 to enhance and modify images to meet your requirements. Now, you would want to create and work with images to be used in the web pages.
In this course, you will use Photoshop to create and optimize images for the web. You will also stage web page components, arrange them aesthetically, and add interactivity to them. Finally, you will export the web page consisting of interactive images so that you can view and test their functionality in Internet browsers.
This training may be available onsite; please contact us if you are interested.
Audience
This course is intended for new users of Photoshop, or existing basic users interested in using Photoshop for Web Production.
Skills Gained
You will set Photoshop's unit preferences and save files in different formats to see how well each one balances image quality with file size reduction. You will then calibrate your system's color display. You will also use Photoshop as part of creating finished web pages and export individual slices and create an HTML Web page that displays a table containing the sliced sections. Finally, you will use Photoshop and the Save for Web and Devices feature to create and optimize animations for the web and mobile devices.
Prerequisites
To ensure students' success with this course, we recommend that they have a familiarity with Photoshop or take the following Systematix course Photoshop CS4 Foundation.
Course Outline
Preparing Web Images
- Change Measurement Units
- Reduce File Size
Optimizing Images
- Optimize Photographic Images
- Optimize Flat Color Graphics and Illustrations
- Apply Transparency Settings
Preparing Images for Cross-Platform Viewing
- Set Up Color Management for the Web
- Alter Images for Display Across Platforms
- Snap to Web Safe Colors
Creating Web Page Layouts
- Simulate a Web Page
- Create Web Page Backgrounds
- Draw Editable Vector Shapes
- Create Effects
Exporting a Web Page
- Prepare a Web Page for Export
- Export a Web Page
Creating Animations for Web and Mobile Devices
- Create Animations
- Create Timeline Animations
- Save Animations
- Preview Animations on Mobile Devices
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