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Take a Course Start with Color Matters and count the ways. Then on to fundamental color theory and practice. World of Color introduces the color wheel and Color Models extends the explanation through computer applications. NY Institute of
Photography Guides to Quality
Graphics in Electronic Presentations is an instructional Technologies Masters Program from Virginia PolyTech; written for teachers, by teachers. Dmitry's Top Ten Tips haven't been updated since 1996 and are still relevant. At his Design Lab's archives are two years of articles on advanced web and graphics design. Production
Graphics Cameras
ShortCourses Digital Photography Review is where you'll find all the latest in digital camera and digital imaging news, discussion forums, samples galleries, regular photography articles and the most comprehensive database of digital camera specifications and prices. Scanners Wayne Fulton's "A Few Scanning Tips" has been on the Web for a couple of years. It just keeps getting better. The Scanning FAQ: Hard Science. Sullivan's Scanning Tips Online: Good tips, all eleven of them; great illustrations. <Top> |
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Software Adobe Photoshop is the standard graphics manipulation software used by most publishing, video, and graphics related companies around the world. It costs US$598.00. It's a very complex program with a long and steep learning curve and is so resource intensive that it can slow an older computer to a crawl. Paintshop Pro, on the other hand, can be found at Costco for well under $100. There are certain filters and techniques that aren't in Paintshop Pro, but for Webwork it's a superb tool. It's easy to learn, loads quickly on older hardware and can be downloaded and installed on a 30 day trial basis for free from JASC. Paintshop Pro Resources The Paintshop Pro Users Group is an online community dedicated to those who use the program. Much better than the Help file. At PSP Power you can sign up for a weekly newsletter of tips and tricks. Pinoy's Tutorials are very well written, very well illustrated. At Web Graphics on a Budget you can download PSP tutorials in PDF format. Web Fast and Web Safe
Optimizing Web Graphics: Visibone's page can help to define those colors that are browser independent with an explanation of "browser safe" colors and a downloadable palette that you can use with Paintshop Pro. Colormix.com: 216 isn't many colors, when the shade you want isn't on the palette you've got. You can mix your own here from browser safe colors. All of the table backgrounds on this page are representative, a lighter yellow, a lighter blue. A light brown I can live with. |
Loose PicsA Paint Shop Pro lover shares her Paint Shop Pro Toybox. Paint Shop Pro's Top 10 Very Frequently Asked Questions (& a couple of dozen more). Teph's Tricks, Simple Filters and Harry's: plug-in filters for Paint Shop Pro. Tutorials and more at Paint Shop Pro Tutorial Links. Photoshop Elements: Finally, a mid-range imaging application from Adobe. Jay Arraich’s Tips is a comprehensive collection of screen shot illustrated Elements tutorials. |
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I like to use these three free programs for fast and simple organization and presentation of graphics. A Square Image can crop your picture to a predetermined size with just a couple of mouse clicks. A Smaller Image, from the same folks at Trivista, is their shareware version and has much more functionality. Listpics will make an easily edited webpage of all graphics files in a given directory. Images is a Piclist of all the graphics files in this directory and FootDog is a page from the family album. Batch Thumbs goes a little further by creating a webpage with thumbnails linked to the original pictures in a given directory. The "thumbs" in this example have been constrained to a maximum height/width of 96 pixels. <Top> |
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