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Coloring Web Graphics 2
Publisher:
New Riders
Author: Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin
ISBN: 1-56205-818-5
Publication Date: Aug 97
Retail Price: $50.00
Ask most Web surfers what their major complaint is about the Web. Most will tell you that it comes down to speed--or rather the lack of it. Speed isn't really a concern if all you're downloading is text files...they don't take much time at all. It's the graphics that take forever, everyone will agree. Well, that and the Java applets. This should cause every Web designer out there to wonder what they can do. After all, a page with no graphics at all is a very boring, and probably unvisited, Web page.
So just how much is there to know about graphics? Enough to fill over 300 pages, for sure. Lynda and Bruce's book, Coloring Web Graphics 2 will take you through the basics of computer graphics, on to which colors are safe for Web browsers, file formats, color principles, imaging techniques, color-related HTML tags, and finally, a large section is devoted to graphic representations of practically every color under the sun, so to speak. They even give the hex and RGB values of the colors, making it easy for the developer to know exactly what to use on their Web page. They'll help you to understand the concepts behind Web graphics, and this understanding will enable you, the Web designer, to create and use Web graphics which are slick, useful and fast to download.
Also included is a CD-ROM which contains:
- browser-safe palettes for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photo-Paint, FreeHand, Illustrator and Painter
- hundreds of browser-safe color variations, all organized by hue, value, saturation and color relationships
- clipart
- electronic versions of the color swatches which are included in the print version
- HTML-based color schemes
- demo software for DeBabelizer and DitherBox
- sample patterns, backgrounds, buttons and objects
If you are a professional Web designer, you owe it to yourself and your customers to know your business. In the Web business, that includes Web graphics, and to use them correctly involves more than shrinking them down, or scanning your favorite images. Coloring Web Graphics 2 will take you one step further towards becoming a first rate Web designer, a real pro in a sea of amateurs.
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