Creating Great Web Graphics - Softcover

J.K.

9781558284791: Creating Great Web Graphics

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558284796 ISBN 13: 9781558284791

Publisher: Mis Pr, 1996

Sure, anyone can create Web graphics. But surf the Web and youll quickly discover it takes a little more than access to Photoshop or CorelDRAW to make great Web graphics. Everyone could use a little expert advice from time to time, even veteran designers. Now acclaimed computer artist Laurie McCanna is here to offer a helping hand.

In Creating Great Web Graphics, you get step-by-step instructions for making and optimizing icons, type, background tiles, and images for the Web. You learn the various tricks of the trade, including image compression, designing for different platforms, anti-aliasing files, using transparency, creating special effects, correcting bad scans, indexing colors, and much more.

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Review:

At last! A thorough, easy-to-understand, step-by-step, how-to manual on using Photoshop and Corel for making the beautiful and compact Web graphics that you've been drooling over. As of today (May 7th, 1996) this is the finest book I've seen on the topic. I try to stay calm when I write recommendations, but I've lost my composure, and my excitement is best encapsulated in a single phrase: "buy this book!"

Review:

Creating Great Web Graphics focuses solely on how to create quality PC graphics for World Wide Web sites. Through step-by-step instructions readers learn how to create icons, type, background tiles, and images that work well within Web protocols. McCanna uses the popular PC applications "Photoshop" and Corel's "PhotoPaint" to address the major challenges of creating graphics for the Web -- creating low-resolution, small files that load quickly but look professional on all major computer platforms (Mac, UNIX, PC). In a straightforward, humorous style, McCanna teaches essential web graphics tricks such as anti-aliasing files so they display smoothly on low-resolution computer monitors, using transparency to crate non-rectangular buttons and images, or using beveled edges to give depth to icons. Expert color advice includes color indexing instructions to crate the smallest possible files, and a hex code color chart for quick reference when creating website pages. Creating Great Web Graphics is a high-powered, user-friendly reference and is highly recommended for every website developer's reference shelf! -- Midwest Book Review

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