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When Adobe bought Fireworks from Macromedia they quietly dropped ImageReady, a cousin application of Photoshop which was specially tooled up to help create web graphics.
Among the really great features included in ImageReady was a Rollovers panel, which really speeded up the process of creating rollover buttons for web pages and was quite missed. However you can get quite a long way using Layer Comps and Styles along with the Slice Tool… Check out da Vid!
Content-Aware Scale… is a reality warping feature buried quite discretely in Photoshop CS4. It allows you to let Photoshop intelligently transform images as you resize them… (more…)
What are these self-styled ‘Web Safe’ colours. Do you need them? Should you care?
10 million years ago when the DTPosaurs worked on huge, slow computers with tiny, tiny little screens, there wasn’t a lot of anything to go round, not enough RAM, not disk space, not enough colours.
That’s why when the web came along it was important for designers to recognise that not everyone’s monitor could display the same colours. At that time the fanciest graphics cards where maybe putting out 16bit colours (that’s 65536 different colours) but your average punter would of probably owned a 8bit card (that’s only 256 colours folks!)
To make things more confusing both the Mac’s system palette and Window’s system palette were different from each other… (more…)