Photoshop For The Web Tutorial. A Definite Training Course

Learn how Photoshop optimizes web images with compression and fast loading while setting up the program, configuring the workspace and color sets, and building a basic web mockup.

Images stay the same size while monitor resolution changes, so on-screen space varies. Photoshop helps you plan for different resolutions from 800x600 to 1280x800 and 300 ppi retina displays.

Organize your web project by creating a dedicated folder and configuring a web-friendly Photoshop workspace with adjusted panels, swatches, and paragraph styles.

Create a new web project in Photoshop using the web preset, set the canvas to web dimensions, and apply 72 resolution with rgb color.

Design for mobile devices in Photoshop by using device presets for iPad and iPhone, saving custom presets, and applying key resolutions such as 768 by 1024 and 640 by 960.

design for multiple devices by creating separate photoshop documents for each target screen, such as desktop, iPad, and iPhone, and adapt layout, navigation, and touch targets for each.

Explore color in web design, learning how color can attract, distract, and set mood. Create safe web color palettes, consider index color, and apply color to shapes, fills, and strokes.

Configure Photoshop for web by setting web color settings, enabling monitor RGB proof, and saving for web without converting to sRGB, ensuring consistent colors across monitors.

Explore how hexadecimal color codes represent red, green, and blue values in web design, using the color picker and examples like white, black, and grays.

Learn to generate cohesive web color palettes in Photoshop using the cooler extension and online cooler, then save and apply themes to swatches for web design.

Explore how bit depth and color modes affect web images, focusing on 8-bit RGB and grayscale. Avoid 16-bit and 32-bit for the web, and skip multi-channel and duotones.

Learn to optimize web graphics by converting images to 8-bit indexed color in Photoshop, reducing file size by about 66%, and customizing the color table to remap colors.

Design a web color palette in Photoshop by sampling a 3x3 average hex color and saving swatches for exchange as an A.S.C. file.

Convert images to grayscale or 1-bit bitmap, experiment with 50 percent threshold and halftone patterns, and save custom patterns to reuse later for size optimization.

Learn to colorize vector shapes, text, and pixels in Photoshop by using swatches to pick colors, double-clicking to apply color, and shortcuts like alt/backspace (Windows) or option/delete (Mac).

Explore web image formats, compare JPEG, GIF, and PNGs, and learn how to compress and choose the right format for web sites as newer formats emerge.

Busts the 72 ppi myth for web images. On-screen display depends on pixel dimensions, not resolution; focus on pixel width, like 640x425, to ensure accurate web rendering.

Compare GIF and PNG-8 for web images; PNG-8 excels with solid color artwork and transparency, while GIF handles animation and browser compatibility considerations, guiding when to use each.

compare jpeg and png-24 for the web, explaining that png-24 preserves transparency and alpha channels but has larger files, while jpeg is lossy, smaller, and best for photos.

Learn to compress GIF and PNG images in Photoshop using Save for Web, adjusting color depth, dithering, and image size to minimize file size while preserving quality.

Learn to compress jpeg images for the web using photoshop's save for web, balance quality and file size with a 30 percent setting, and enable progressive loading.

Explore mathematical imagery in Photoshop for the web, leveraging vector work with Illustrator, and CS6 features to create resolution-independent fills and strokes for web-ready graphics.

Discover how vector images in Photoshop stay crisp when resized for the web, unlike raster images that pixelate, and learn to use shape layers for scalable graphics.

Learn to create web-ready vector shapes in Photoshop using ellipse, rounded rectangle, polygon, and custom shapes, each on its own shape layer with vector preservation.

Discover how CS6 lets you treat vector shapes like Illustrator, applying fills, strokes, and gradients directly on shape layers, with options to add shapes on one layer and customize stroke.

Learn how to bring vector art from Illustrator into Photoshop by placing files or using Mini Bridge, maintain vector integrity, and edit in Illustrator when needed.

Learn how smart objects link Photoshop and Illustrator, edit in Illustrator, save, and update in Photoshop to streamline web design assets and reuse across projects.

Explore non-destructive web image editing in Photoshop by converting layers to smart objects, applying smart filters (like film grain), and easily reverting changes if a client dislikes the result.

learn how to prep photos for the web by compressing images in adobe photoshop, balancing file size and quality, and using slicing and watermarking to protect intellectual property.

Learn the raw-to-web workflow by adjusting white balance and exposure in the raw plug-in, converting to 8-bit Adobe RGB, and resizing for web with smart object editing.

Learn to resize images with proportional scaling, apply masks to composite layers, and position tennis balls in a web design using Photoshop.

Optimize a JPEG for the web by resizing to 800 by 600, cropping to four by three ratio, and saving for web with quality settings and subtle vibrance adjustments.

Learn how to optimize a gif for the web using save for web, adjust color depth—from 256 to 64 colors—and manage dithering and transparency.

Master slicing images for the web in Photoshop with the crop and slice tools, set a 4 by 3 ratio, save for web, and build clickable, faster-loading image slices.

Add non-evasive or evasive watermarks in Photoshop to protect your images, merging text layers and using blending modes like multiply or screen to ensure credit remains.

Explore how layers in Photoshop enable up to eight thousand layers, flexible text formatting, and seamless save for web workflows that preserve and later edit the original psd.

Explore the Photoshop layers panel to organize web graphics with visibility, blending modes, opacity, and locks, and use shortcuts to select, activate, link, and group layers.

Organize a photoshop web project by naming layers with a consistent convention, using groups to structure layers, and saving evolving versions of the document.

Organize layers by renaming and grouping, then quickly locate and edit a specific element using the layer search filters (kind, name, effect, mode, attributes, visibility) and color coding.

Learn how to use layer comps in Photoshop for web design, creating multiple background states, saving states, and presenting client options with visibility, position, and appearance controls.

Learn to use Photoshop's layers panel blending modes to combine blue, green, and red logo colors with a backdrop, applying multiply and screen options, and understand additive versus subtractive color.

Compare opacity and fill in Photoshop to see how opacity affects the entire layer, while fill changes only the pixels, leaving text layer effects intact.

Learn how Photoshop handles video, uses the layers panel for multiple layers, adds title text with fades and blending modes, and compresses for web delivery.

Import video into Photoshop for the web, using API and MOV formats. Learn to open and place video via Bridge, then work with Photoshop's timeline.

Learn to use the Photoshop timeline panel to play and scrub video, cut segments, apply transitions, adjust duration and frame rate, and edit with filters.

Enable and use Photoshop timeline shortcut keys to scrub video frames, move one frame or ten frames, jump to beginning or end, and control playback with spacebar and arrow keys.

Explore editing video in Photoshop by applying adjustments, smart filters, and masks to a video layer, experimenting with saturation, color, gradients, and noise for dynamic effects.

Learn to use blending modes with video in Photoshop, combine multiple clips with video groups, convert layers to smart objects, and apply free transform to position them.

Add text to video in Photoshop, use a type layer, customize font and color, extend duration on the timeline, and apply entrance and exit fades.

Render a selected work area from Photoshop, export video using Adobe Media Encoder with h.264 presets, choose YouTube HD 720, progressive frames, and save to a web-friendly folder.

Learn how to create web animations using the animated GIF format in Photoshop, and explore when to use or avoid GIFs to keep your site attractive without distracting from content.

Learn to build frame animations with the timeline and layers panels, convert to frame animation or video timeline, and use options like unify, propagate, and automatic.

Learn to create a basic animated gif in Photoshop using frame animation in the timeline, adjust frame timing, optimize colors, and save for web for a looping, web-ready animation.

Learn to assemble multiple walking frames into a single Photoshop document by loading files into layers, creating a frame animation, and exporting a web-optimized gif.

Explore Photoshop’s unify features for web animation: use the timeline and layers to create moving arrows, propagate changes across frames, and apply a layer style like a drop shadow selectively.

Use tweening in Photoshop to animate a rocket ship take off from bottom to top by building frames in the timeline, adjusting canvas size, and exporting a looping animated gif.

Create a slide show by loading photos into layers in Photoshop, building a frame animation, and using tween transitions and timing adjustments, then export as a web-optimized GIF.

Explore how to design web navigation as a roadmap for users, using menu bars, rollovers, and glassine buttons. Compress and assemble these elements for launch on the World Wide Web.

Learn to build a web navigation bar using text links in Photoshop, including creating a rectangle shape, applying color, duplicating text layers, and aligning and distributing nav items.

Generate navigation buttons in Photoshop using layer styles such as color overlay and bevel and emboss, control lighting and shading, and save styles for quick reuse.

Create buttons using custom shapes and convert them to smart objects, then resize and align multiple buttons with transform and distribute options, applying styles and color overlay for consistent results.

Learn to create glassine buttons in Photoshop for the web using color overlay, satin, bevel, inner glow, and contour adjustments to produce transparent, glassy buttons.

Create rollover buttons in Photoshop by making rounded rectangle shapes, slicing them into layers, naming the slices home, about, and contact, and defining normal and hover states for navigation.

Master saving web assets by manually exporting normal and hover button slices in Photoshop using save for web, layer comps, and 32-color compression.