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Adobe ImageReady CS

Adobe ImageReady CS is a companion program to the popular image editing application "Photoshop CS". For years, Photoshop has been one of the leaders in the graphics design arena, becoming the industry standard for photographers, print designers and game developers alike. While Photoshop handled many image editing tasks well, designing graphics for the Web brought on a new set of requirements. Enter Adobe ImageReady. Adobe ImageReady allows users to optimize graphics and text for fast downloads, create slices and rollovers, animations, interactivity and much more. VTC author Rick Martin, begins by teaching the basic tool set and then moves on to more advanced concepts. Work files are included. To begin learning today, simply click on one of the Adobe ImageReady CS lessons.

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Welcome and Overview

Welcome and About This Course

What is ImageReady?

Installing ImageReady

Activating ImageReady

New In ImageReady CS

Interface and Setup

Interface Overview

Interface Customization

The Canvas

Preferences

General

Slices

Image Maps

Guides and Grid

Optimization

Cursors

Transparency and Plugins

Toolbox

Toolbox Overview

Layers and Tools

Marquee Tool pt1

Marquee Tool pt2

Other Marquee Tools

Lasso Tools

Magic Wand Tool

Move Tool pt1

Move Tool pt2

Slice and Slice Select Tools

Image Map and Image Map Select Tools

Eraser Tools

Paintbrush and Pencil Tools

Clone Stamp and Paint Bucket

Type Tool

Shape Tools

Line Tool

Crop Tool pt1

Crop Tool pt2

Eyedropper Tool

Hand and Zoom Tools

Foreground and Background Color Pickers

Visibility and Preview

Edit in Photoshop

Palettes

Palettes Overview

Layers Palette pt1

Layers Palette pt2

Layers Palette pt3

Layers Palette pt4

History Palette

Actions Palette pt1

Actions Palette pt2

Color Palette

Swatches Palette

Styles Palette

Animation Palette pt1

Animation Palette pt2

Character Palette pt1

Character Palette pt2

Paragraph Palette

Web Content Palette pt1

Web Content Palette pt2

Color Table Palette

Optimize Palette pt1

Optimize Palette pt2

Info Palette

Layer Comps Palette

Slice Palette pt1

Slice Palette pt2

Table Palette

Image Map Palette

Handling ImageReady Documents

Overview

Document Setup

Image Size

Canvas Size

Metadata

File Info

About Web Graphics

Bitmap vs Vector Graphics

Color Modes

Resolution

Layer Styles

Overview

Blending Options

Shadows

Glows

Bevel and Emboss

Satin

Overlays

Stroke

Layers and Compositing

Grouping and Alignment

Blending Modes pt1

Blending Modes pt2

Blending Modes pt3

Blending Modes pt4

Blending Modes pt5

Merging and Stamping Layers

Separating Layers

Masking Basics

Clipping Masks

Knockouts

The Layer Menu

Creating and Modifying Graphics

Painting and Filling

Select Menu

Project - Web Interface

Project - Concentric Circles

Project - Bars and Buttons

Project - Button Text and Alignment

Project - Curves pt1

Project - Curves pt2

Project - Duplicating the Curve

Project - Finishing the Top Bar

Project - Layer Styles

Types of Type

Creating Type

Modifying Type

Slicing, Interactivity and Animation

Project - Slicing pt1

Project - Slicing pt2

Project - Slicing pt3

Project - Slicing Options

Project - Rollovers

Project - Remote Rollover

Animations pt1

Animations pt2

Project - Animated Rollover

Image Map Project - Setup

Image Map Project - Hotspot

Image Adjustment and Correction

Levels

Hue and Saturation

Variations

Unsharp Mask

Data Sets

Overview and Setup

Organizing Graphic Content

Variables

Data Sets

Previewing and Exporting

Optimization

Overview

Understanding the gif Format

Understanding the jpeg Format

Project - Web Page Background

Project - Adjusting Slices

Project - Optimization Setup

Project - Color Table

Project - Dithering

Project - Transparency

Project - Options

Jpeg Settings

Optimize to File Size

Optimizing Adjacent Slices

Weighted Optimization

Optimizing Animations

Exporting

Overview

Exporting a Single Image

HTML

Saving HTML Files

Slices

Image Maps

Background

Saving Files

Export as SWF

Export as Files

In Conclusion

Wrapping it Up

Credits

About This Author