Course Description
Photoshop® 7.0: Web Production is a course that will familiarize you with concepts and techniques important for optimizing images for display on the Internet.

Prerequisites:  To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:
·     Photoshop® 7.0: Level 1
·     Photoshop® 7.0: Level 2

See Dates for this class

Performance-Based Objectives
·     Use basic techniques and concepts about image resolution and identify factors that contribute to file size.
·     Understand GIF, JPEG, and PNG file formats so that you can choose the right one for each image.
·     Calibrate your monitor, and preview images for both platforms so you can adjust images to optimize their appearance on both Macintosh and Windows computers; control dithering in images, using it when necessary to improve images, and avoiding it at times when it detracts from the quality; and use the Web palette appropriately to optimize images for viewing on computers displaying only 256 colors.
·     Use Photoshop and ImageReady to create layouts of Web pages, aligning items precisely to one another with guides and a grid; and slice complex images into sections, and use ImageReady to generate HTML code that joins the slices together in a table on a Web page, including JavaScript rollovers and URL links.
·     Create animated GIF images that combine slow transitions and fast motion effects, while still maintaining small file sizes.

 

Course Content

Lesson 1: Web Image Preparation
Topic 1A: Web Images
Topic 1B: File Size Considerations
                             
Lesson 2: Optimizing Images
Topic 2A: Format Specifications
Topic 2B: Optimizing Images
Topic 2C: Using Transparency in Web Images

Lesson 3: Preparing for Cross-platform Viewing
Topic 3A: Color Management for the Web
Topic 3B: Compensating for Display Differences Across Platforms
Topic 3C: Managing Dithering and Reducing the Color Palette

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lesson 4: Web Page Layout and Slicing
Topic 4A: Web Design Uses for Photoshop and ImageReady
Topic 4B: Creating Tiled Web Page Backgrounds
Topic 4C: Slicing Images
                                         
Lesson 5: Animation
Topic 5A: Creating Animations

Appendix A: Photoshop 7.0
Managing Dithering

Appendix B: Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Program®
Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0 ACE Exam Objectives