Photoshop CS5 for the Web

Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files

1. Customizing Photoshop for Web Work
Customizing a web workspace
Creating web shortcuts
Setting preferences for the web
Color managing web images

2. Working with Color
The decline of web-safe color
Selecting color in the Color Picker
Other color selection methods
Working with custom swatches
Choosing color themes with Kuler
Recoloring a web graphic
Copying color as hex value and HTML

3. Optimizing Images for the Web
Touring the Save for Web window
Understanding file types
Optimizing photos as JPEGs
Optimizing graphics as GIFs
Locking GIF colors
Optimizing graphics as PNGs
Adding copyright information

4. Making Web Backgrounds
Design considerations for web backgrounds
Optimizing a background graphic
Making a vertical/horizontal background graphic
Building a seamless background graphic
Creating a full-screen background image

5. Optimizing Transparent Graphics
Understanding web graphic transparency
Working with transparent graphics on a solid background
Working with transparent graphics on a patterned background
Working with transparent graphics with shadows
Starting with a non-transparent graphic
Simulating transparency in a JPEG

6. Creating Navigation Graphics
Building a navigation bar
Creating web buttons with layer styles
Creating web buttons as Smart Objects
Creating web icons from custom shapes

7. Web Photo Preparation Workflow
Understanding the web photo workflow
Resizing a copy for the web
Sharpening output for the web

8. Mocking Up a Web Page
Determining page size
Creating a new file from scratch
Laying out a page structure

9. Slicing
Understanding slicing
Making user slices
Making layer-based slices
Optimizing and saving slices

10. Making Rollover Graphics
Understanding rollovers
Creating rollover graphics from styles and layer comps
Optimizing rollover graphics
Installing the lynda.com rollover script
Using the lynda.com rollover script
Creating rollover graphics from layers and layer comps

11. Animating
Creating frame-by-frame animation from layers
Tweening layer opacity
Tweening layer position and styles
Building simple animated GIF slideshows

12. Automating
Speeding image prep with the Image Processor
Making a gallery of online images
Using Zoomify to put high-res images online
Using datasets and variables with web graphics
Importing dataset values from a spreadsheet

13. Integrating with Other CS5 Applications
Integrating with Dreamweaver: Smart Objects
Integrating with Dreamweaver: Copy/Paste
Integrating with Fireworks
Integrating with Illustrator
Integrating with Flash

Conclusion
Goodbye