Comments and Links to Chapter 4 and Lesson 4.
Links:
http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/CAT/CAT11/week4/mapexample.html
http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/CAT/CAT11/Lessons/lesson04/naxos.html
Class Exercise:
This project was easy and enjoyable, and yet informative learned more from it than the book exercise. I am using CS3 and found Fireworks to be very effective and easy to use. I will use it from now on to optimize images. Was our use of stock images from Getty legal?
I hope STE set-up works for me. That weekly set-up and Windows Visa have been the most difficult tasks for me.
Chapter 4 Exercise:
The use of Photoshop was new to me, an I can see that Photoshop has gone way beyond image manipulation. The storing of multi images on Photoshop layers is a useful technique and I will be able to use it.
The “background and foreground” nomenclature will be hard to remember.
The principle of using Smart Objects with PSD files is sound but it’s confusing.
February 22, 2009 at 7:30 pm |
Albert
Good question (re: getty images and useage); technically, comps are used often in working up ideas and designs for approval from a client or colleague. Getty gives you access to the low resolution web comps to do just that – use them in your ideas, and if you decide to go public with them, then it’s your responsibility (or your client’s) to purchase and license them. Since we are using this for educational purposes on a semi-private server just for class, we would be fine
SmartObjects are a great idea and the new tie-in with DW is really useful. Just practice and play with them a bit, and see where it goes!