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Preparing Web Graphics

Name: Preparing Web Graphics
Author: Lynda Weinman
ISBN: 9781562056865

by Lynda Weinman

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Preparing Web Graphics will help you understand how to make proper images that load fast and look good, whether you're working with web graphics for the first time or you're a seasoned digital artist wanting to transfer print graphics skills to web design. Using real-world techniques, full-color images, charts, and graphics as well as advice from an industry expert, you'll gain invaluable insight into the intricacies of this powerful medium. You'll explore the inner workings of web graphics creation, preparation, and delivery; learn the ins and outs of using browser-safe colors; and get in-depth information on animated GIFs, imagemaps, and transparency. Plus, you'll find out how to make your graphics hold up when viewed across multiple browsers, computer platforms, and operating systems. Preparing Web Graphics - graphics essentials for publishers who want to understand how to make the best images for the web!

The author of Designing Web Graphics presents Web graphics essentials for designers who are new to the Web and Webmasters who are new to Photoshop. Written in the author's trademark conversational style, the book shares tips and techniques for fast and high quality Web graphics. It is written clearly enough for the Web graphics beginner to understand, and will also serve as a definitive resource for the professional Web designer.

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Weinman is a one-woman graphics factory turning out essential web-design guides. Coloring Web Graphics is a simply beautiful description of browser/platform safe colors. Anyone who has carefully designed a web site only to view what looks like a bizarre parody on a friend's machine will welcome this work. The CD is full of color palettes and clip art. Deconstructing is a total case study approach to understanding web design. This hands-on, backwards look at existing web sites includes examinations of the site code in html, Java, JavaScript, ShockWave, and even PhotoShop that produced the sites. Designing Web Graphics is a total approach to building a successful web site, from advice on buying hardware to animation techniques. Especially clear discussions of graphics formats (e.g., jpegs vs. gifs) and navigational graphics are augmented in this second edition with updated information on frames, interactivity, and more. In early summer, look for Preparing Web Graphics (ISBN 1-56205-686-7. $39.99) and Creative HTML Design (ISBN 1-56205-704-9. $39.99).