Painting the Web / Shelley Powers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powers, Shelley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer graphics.

Web sites--Design.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (657 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Cambridge : O'Reilly, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Do you think that only professionals with expensive tools and years of experience can work with web graphics? This guide tosses that notion into the trash bin. Painting the Web is the first comprehensive book on web graphics to come along in years, and author Shelley Powers demonstrates how readers of any level can take advantage of the graphics and animation capabilities built into today's powerful browsers. She covers GIFs, JPEGs, and PNGs, raster and vector graphics, CSS, Ajax effects, the canvas objects, SVG, geographical applications, and more -- everything that

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; How to Use This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari® Books Online; Acknowledgments; You Must Have Fun; What Was Good Enough for Grandpappy...; Draw Me!; ; Pictures on the Cheap; Programming for Pennies; Graphics: Taste Great, Less Filling; It Hurts! Make It Stop!; Web Graphics Hall of Shame; 10. Under Construction; 9. Web Design and Graphics As Tail Wagging the Dog; 8. Hamster on a Color Wheel; 7. One Can Never Have Too Many Widgets; 6. The Browser Wars; 5. Mystery Meat Navigation

4. Animated GIFs3. The Splash Page; 2. Don't BLINK; 1. The Spacer; On with the Wondrous Variety; Imagine; Raster Graphics and RGB Color 101; The RGB Color Model; Raster Graphics: A Text Example; JPEG; Lossy Compression; JPEG and Managed Color; LCD for Color on the Web; GIF: Lossless and Paletted; GIF Animation and Throbbers; GIF Compression; PNG; PNG and Transparency; Transparency and Anti-Aliasing; Images: Annotated, Embedded, and Optimized; Images. In Pages.; GIF Optimization; JPEG Optimization; PNG Optimization; Steal This: Images, Copyright, and Hotlinking; OK to Copy, Not OK to Link

Image StorageHosting on a Social Network Photo Site; Other Hosting Solutions; Regardless of Choice, Have an Exit Plan; Photographs: From Camera to Web Page; The Web Photographer's Workflow; Working with RAW Images; UFRaw; Adobe Camera Raw; Editing Photos: Bending Light; Color Match That Group: Optimization in Numbers; Classic Color Matching with Adobe's Color Match; Home-Baked Color Matching: Cooking with Levels and Curves; Overlay Color Match Workaround; It's Black and White and Not Red All Over; The Illustrative Effect; Sharpen Me Up, Blur Me Down; The Gaussian Blur and "Mood"

Knockouts and ExtractionsA Survey of Desktop Photo Editors; Adobe Photoshop CS3; Photoshop Elements; Paint Shop Pro Photo XI; Paint.NET; GIMP; Online Editors: Fauxto and Picnik; Fauxto; Picnik Photo Editing: Less Is More; Photo Workflow Software; Apple's Aperture; Adobe's Lightroom; Photo Workflow: Camera to Web Redux; The Web As Frame; The Art of Thumbnail Sizing; Resizing, Resampling, and Retargeting; iSizing; Mobile Sizing; Seam Carving; The Creative Art of Thumbnails; Adding Drop Shadows; Cut-Out Thumbnails; Expanding Thumbnails; Embedding Photos: Condiment and Spice; Prep

Float a Row of ImagesPlating Photos; Creating a Reusable Ladder Mask; Torn Edges; Broken Photo; Group Effects; Generated Galleries and Slideshows; Editor and Workflow Shows; Specialized Web Gallery Applications; Gallery Software on the Server; A Bit of Code; Pop Graphics; The Graphic Toolbox: Shapes, Layers, Gradient, and Blur; Shiny Buttons: Gel, Wet, and Glass; Creating a 3D Button in GIMP: Shiny; Creating a 3D Button, Two: The Dip; Creating a 3D Button, Three: The Wet Button; Badges and Bows: Beyond the Buttons; Simple, Shiny Irregular Shape; Glowing Rather Than Shiny

Reflecting on Reflection, and Shadowing Revisited

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780596153250

0596153252

OCLC:

297575749