Week 6

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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

  1. Read Ward, Chapter 2
  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