Total
Training's Creating Web Graphics with Adobe Photoshop 6
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The series
is hosted by Deke McClelland, who guides the viewer not only
through the concepts involved in Web graphics, but also through
the setup of your system so that you're getting off to the right
start. Topics range from Web graphics essentials to optimizing
images to working in ImageReady and adding animation to pieces.
All around,
this is a great tool for artists working in print who need to
prepare graphics for the Web as well. It assumes a moderate
amount of experience using Photoshop and working in print, although,
at times, it dips into remedial information as well, such as
why you need to add the ".jpg" extension to your file
names. Nevertheless, when I watched these DVDs, Deke McClelland
managed to teach me a ton of stuff I didn't already know about
Photoshop—as usual.
When you
watch this series, you're going to go through everything from
setting up your color management properly to compensating for
cross-platform viewing to specific techniques for achieving
optimum file size versus image quality. And that's just the
first disc. In the second disc, you get to learn all about working
with Web graphics in Adobe ImageReady and even adding interactivity
and animation to a site from directly within ImageReady. And,
of course, the beauty of DVD is the ease with which you can
pause and review tips in case you miss anything or need to check
to see whether you did something right.
For those
who are using Photoshop and ImageReady for the Web, this series
is a must-see. It's positioned as a companion to Total Photoshop
6, though those with Photoshop experience will certainly
be at no disadvantage. (We're going to review the Total Photoshop
6 series separately; but I will note here that it is definitely
worth seeing for any user of Photoshop at any level of experience.)
For you Photoshop users, I give this series a buy recommendation.
If you'd like to get an idea of the type of approach this series
takes, be sure to visit our tutorials
section, where you will find a number of examples from several
Total Training series.
Creating
Web Graphics with Adobe Photoshop 6 is available for $149.
It includes two DVDs (or four VHS tapes) and one CD-ROM, as
well as a printed index of the content for easy reference. For
more information, visit http://www.totaltraining.com.
