Photoshop 5. 5/ImageReady 2 hands-on training (H. O. T) Book

	Front Matter	1
I.	Introduction	2
	Note from Lynda	2
	How This Book Works	4
	Exercise Files on the H-O-T CD-ROM	5
	Software Files on the CD-ROM	6
	Troubleshooting FAQ	6
	Skill Level	6
	RAM, RAM, and More RAM	7
	System Requirements	7
	About lynda.com	8
	About Me	9
	Acknowledgements	11
2.	Interface	12
	Interface Overview	13
	Photoshop 5.5 and ImageReady 2.0 Toolbars	14
	Jump To Buttons	15
Exercise #1	Using Flexible Palettes and Tabs	16
Exercise #2	Returning the Palettes to Default Settings	18
	Palette Shortcuts	19
	Shortcuts	20
	How to Set a Tool's Default Setting in Photoshop	21
	How to View Hidden Tools in Photoshop and ImageReady	21
3.	Color Management	22
Exercise #1	Changing Photoshop Color Settings for Web Design	24
Exercise #2	Changing Your Photoshop Preferences for the Web	27
4.	Optimization	28
	What Affects Speed on the Web?	29
	GIF or JPEG?	29
	Transparency and Animation	30
	Lossy or Lossless?	31
	How Can You Make Small JPEGs?	32
	How Can You Make Small GIFs?	33
	What About PNG?	34
	What is Bit Depth?	35
Exercise #1	Saving for Web Using JPEG	36
Exercise #2	Saving for Web Using GIF	42
Exercise #3	Choosing the Right Palette	50
Exercise #4	Reducing the Colors	53
Exercise #5	Previewing Gamma and Browser Dither	56
Exercise #6	Changing the Dimensions of a Graphic	59
Exercise #7	Previewing in a Browser	60
Exercise #8	Setting Up for Optimization in ImageReady	62
Exercise #9	Optimizing a JPEG	64
Exercise #10	Using a Matte Color on a JPEG	66
Exercise #11	Previewing and Writing HTML	69
Exercise #12	Using Lossy Compression	72
5.	Web Color	76
	What is Web-Safe Color Anyway?	77
	Why is Web-Safe Color so Important?	80
	What is Hexidecimal Color?	81
	What Happens If You Don't Use Web-Safe Color?	82
Exercise #1	Changing the Info Palette	86
Exercise #2	Copy Color as HTML	88
Exercise #3	Only Web Colors	90
Exercise #4	Snapping to Web Colors	94
Exercise #5	Setting the Color Palette to Web Colors	95
Exercise #6	Setting the Swatches Palette to Web Colors	96
Exercise #7	Loading the lynda.com Swatch	98
Exercise #8	Previewing Dither	100
Exercise #9	Fixing a Non-Safe Image	102
Exercise #10	When Dithering is Good	107
Exercise #11	Preserve Transparency	110
Exercise #12	Filling with Ditherbox	116
Exercise #13	Previewing Gamma	119
6.	Type	122
	Differences in Type in Photoshop 5.5 and ImageReady 2.0	123
Exercise #1	Type Basics	124
Exercise #2	Jump To	130
Exercise #3	Changing the Update Feature	132
Exercise #4	Editing Type	136
Exercise #5	Rendering Type	139
Exercise #6	Setting Up Artwork for Buttons	144
	What Is Preserve Transparency?	142
Exercise #7	ImageReady Layer Effects	148
Exercise #8	Photoshop Layer Effects	152
Exercise #9	The Gradient/Pattern Layer Effect	156
Exercise #10	Applying Styles	160
Exercise #11	Making Your Own Styles	163
Exercise #12	Stroked Text Using Styles and Filter Affects	168
Exercise #13	Stroked Text Using Selections	171
Exercise #14	Clipping Groups	175
Exercise #15	Painting Inside Type	178
7.	Background Images	180
	What is a Background Image?	181
	Background Image Sizes	182
Exercise #1	Defining, Editing, and Previewing a Background Image	184
Exercise #2	Saving a Background Image	189
Exercise #3	Recoloring Background Image Artwork	192
Exercise #4	Seamless Background Tiles	198
	Saving Options in ImageReady	202
Exercise #5	Copying and Pasting with Offset	203
	Ways to Access the Offset Filter in ImageReady	207
Exercise #6	Seamless Photographic Background Images	208
	Which program is best for Background Images?	213
Exercise #7	Full-Screen Background Images	214
Exercise #8	Large-Screen Photographic Background Images	219
Exercise #9	Directional Tiles	222
8.	Transparent CIFs	224
	What Does Anti-Aliasing Look Like?	226
	How to Recognize a Transparent Layer	227
	Offset Problems in Browsers	228
	Transparency, Masks, and GIFs	229
Exercise #1	Creating and Previewing GIF Transparency	230
Exercise #2	Fixing Bad Images	233
Exercise #3	Adding a Drop Shadow	236
Exercise #4	The Pitfalls of Broad Backgrounds	238
Exercise #5	Saving Transparent Images	241
Exercise #6	Transparency in Photoshop	242
Exercise #7	Transparency Layer Versus Transparent GIF	244
Exercise #8	GIF 89a Export	247
9.	Image Maps	248
	Server-Side or Client-Side Image Maps?	249
	What Does an Image Map Look Like?	251
Exercise #1	Making an Image Map	252
Exercise #2	Making an Invisible Layer an Image Map	257
Exercise #3	Jumping to Photoshop with an Image Map	262
10.	Slicing	264
	What are Slices?	265
	Slice Icons	266
	GoLive or ImageReady Code?	267
Exercise #1	Slicing and Selecting	268
Exercise #2	Optimizing Slices	272
Exercise #3	Previewing and Saving Slices	278
Exercise #4	Using the Slice Palette	282
Exercise #5	Setting Auto-Slices to No Image	286
	Saving Slices Recap	291
11.	Rollovers	292
Exercise #1	Single-Button Rollover with Styles	293
Exercise #2	Image Map-Based Rollovers	298
Exercise #3	Saving a Rollover	300
	Preferences for Saving Rollovers	303
Exercise #4	Single-Button Rollover with Layers	307
	What JavaScript States Are Allowed?	310
Exercise #5	Remote Rollovers	311
Exercise #6	Saving Complicated Rollovers	324
Exercise #7	Creating Navigation Bar Layers	326
Exercise #8	Aligning Layers	332
Exercise #9	Adding Slices to a Navigation Bar	339
Exercise #10	Adding Rollovers to a Navigation Bar	340
12.	Animated CIFs	344
	Animation Terms	345
	Animated GIF Format	348
	Compression Challenges	348
	Controlling the Timing of Animated GIFs	349
	Animated Aesthetics	349
Exercise #1	Frame-by-Frame Animation with Layers	350
Exercise #2	Setting the Speed and Looping	354
Exercise #3	Optimizing and Saving an Animated GIF	356
Exercise #4	Making a Transparent Animated GIF	358
Exercise #5	Tweening with Opacity	363
Exercise #6	Selecting, Duplicating, and Reversing Frames	367
Exercise #7	Tweening a Tweened Sequence	370
	Different Ways to Duplicate Frames	372
Exercise #8	Tweening with Position	373
Exercise #9	Tweening with Effects	376
Exercise #10	Animated Slide Show	379
Exercise #11	Animated GIF Rollovers	384
Exercise #12	Designing Entire Interfaces	389
13.	Automation	396
	What is the Web Photo Gallery?	397
	Actions that Ship With Photoshop and ImageReady	398
Exercise #1	Creating a Web Photo Gallery	399
	What Do All the Web Photo Gallery Settings Do?	403
Exercise #2	Creating an Action	404
Exercise #3	Batch Processing with an Action	410
	Adding, Changing, Deleting, or Pausing an Action	414
Exercise #4	Creating a Preview in Browser Action	415
Exercise #5	Previewing Backgrounds with an Action	418
Exercise #6	Automating Animation with a Droplet	422
	More About Droplets	427
14.	Importing/Exporting	428
Exercise #1	Update HTML	429
	How Does HTML Work?	434
Exercise #2	Getting ImageReady Rollovers into GoLive	436
Exercise #3	Getting ImageReady Rollovers into Dreamweaver	443
Exercise #4	Exporting Illustrator 8.0 Files	453
Exercise #5	Exporting from Earlier Illustrator Versions	456
Exercise #6	Exporting ImageReady to QuickTime	458
Exercise #7	Converting from QuickTime to ImageReady	460
15.	Troubleshooting FAQ	461
	Index	470