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Photoshop Top 40, Feature #34: Save for Web (and Devices)

Submitted by deke on 25 August 2009 - 12:15am.
Feature #34: Save for Web (and Devices)

If you take a look at the File menu you'll see a command, about midway down, called "Save for Web & Devices." It's actually two commands. There's the "& Devices" part, which lets you save an image for display on virtually every cell phone except the iPhone. No offense, but if I had to rank this feature, I doubt it'd make my Top 10,000.

But the first part of the command, "Save for Web," that part rocks. It lets you downsample and compress an image for dissemination on the Web. Not to mention jettison all extraneous information and convert the colors to sRGB, the color space of the people. Plus you can compare the Web-optimized image to the original and thereby judge what gets lost in the translation. In other words, Save for Web does everything it can to produce slim, trim, and ultimately beautiful Web graphics. Read more » 

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Martini Hour 026, In Which Deke Proves He Really Does Have an Hour's Worth

Submitted by colleen on 6 August 2009 - 12:15am.

If you stopped by the dekeLounge for last week's Martini Hour, you may recall that I unleashed the monster that is Deke talking about resolution . . . on caffeine! And this week, that monster stops by and actually quizzes me on what I learned. Is that really fair? I mean we are drinking martinis!

(Martini Hour minivan prototype made with the help of photographer icholakov from fotolia.com)

But whining aside, this week we put the theoretical information on resolution that Deke imparted last week to practical use. Read more » 

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Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One

InDesign is Adobe's layout tool extraordinaire, and you can learn it's power with Deke at your side, benevolently taking you through step-by-step tutorials on real-world projects in Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One. Each of the 12 lessons takes you through real world layout design projects, covering InDesign essentials like creating and flowing text; applying text, table, and object styles; drawing and importing artwork, and using InDesign's transparency and effects tools. You can reinforce your study by watching the companion video pieces that come on DVD. Read more » 

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