Adobe Photoshop CS2: Web Design Study Guide

1-4188-4813-1 © 2006 Publish date: September 6, 2005

 

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CBT Planet brings you the Adobe Photoshop CS2 Web Design study guide loaded with information designed to build on the skills and concepts you learned in the basic and advanced Photoshop CS2 courses.

You can use this Adobe Photoshop CS2 Web Design courseware to learn how to optimize images for use on the Internet as well as learn the advantages of using image slicing techniques. In addition, you'll work with links and rollover effects in Internet images as well as learn techniques for automating tasks, creating droplets, working with Internet photo galleries, and creating animations.

Our computer training books are easy to use and the Adobe Photoshop CS2 Web Design courseware is no different. Each expertly authored book is broken down into comprehensive units followed by section reviews. In addition, these manual include interactive exercises designed to reinforce your learning.

Five units cover the advanced web design techniques you'll use with Photoshop CS2. By the end of the course, you will be able to work with images for the web. You can use this study guide as a standalone courseware or you can use it to further your studies while taking another training course. Afterwards, keep it close to your work area and use it as a handy reference source whenever you need to refresh your skills.

Course Objectives

We'll show you how to downsample and trim Internet images to decrease their file size. You'll learn about using the Save for Web command in order to optimize images for the Internet and how to optimize Web images to a target file size. You'll learn about compression, transparency, and simulated transparency.

Other topics include creating web page layouts in ImageReady, aligning elements with the grid and Smart Guides, creating, editing, and optimizing image slices, specifying content types and the width of image slices, customizing slice names, and exporting sliced images as a set of image files associated with an HTML document.

You'll work with the Slice palette, Image Map tools, and the Image Map palette. You'll learn how to create simple and remote rollovers, how to compare an images appearance in a web browser and Photoshop, how to process multiple images, how to work with droplets, and how to work with HTML-based or Flash-based photo galleries.

Finally, you'll work with Animation and Layers palettes for creating and outputting animations.

Course Contents

Unit 1 covers optimizing Web images

• Web image sizes
• Optimization techniques
• Fine tuning quality
• How to create transparency

Unit 2 discusses slicing images

• Full page designs
• Basic slicing techniques
• Advanced slicing techniques
• Exporting Web pages

Unit 3 goes over links and rollover effects

• Links and status-bar messages
• Creating image maps
• Rollovers

Unit 4 covers automating Web tasks

• Color adjustments and size adjustments
• Droplets
• Web photo galleries

Unit 5 covers animation

• How to create animations
• Animation output options