Week 6
Deadlines
9 a.m. today (e-mail)
Assignment 4 (writing for the Web, Part 1): See the Projects
page.
In Class Today
- Photoshop instruction
- Basic tools, layers, "Save for Web"
- Web-safe colors
- Image file formats
- Optimizing images for the Web
- File size issues
- Practice: Creating text with layers in Photoshop; comparing GIF and JPG outcomes
- Animated GIFs: instruction
- Practice: Make an animated GIF
Assignments
- Read Ward, Chapter 2
- Complete Assignment 5 (Photoshop exercise) from the Projects page.
Handouts
- Photoshop Exercises
- Photoshop Toolbox
> Counterspace:
All about typography
> Web
Color Theory: Combine and try out Web-safe colors
> Graphics
101: How to create images for the Web
