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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Web Workflows Notes

Chapter 1-
  • Initializing the comp
  • setting preferences
  • working with layers
  • making selections
  • adding gradients (adding a header and a footer)
  • inserting images/ opacity
  • placing an image & quick mask (extracting an image with a wand tool)
  • resizing image (show transforming option)

Chapter 2
  • aligning with guides (creating a new guide view> new guide> enter position) inserting icons and aligning them with guides and the distribute option in the option bar, inserting a gradient under the heading and behind the buttons on the page, adding bars of color for different sections of the page
  • working with text
  • applying effects
  • aligning text with smart guide
  • simple rules for text: Use common fonts, size in pixels, set paragraph margins, avoid hyphenation.
  • Placing text in the header folder and naming it "h1 and h2" (page title and subheading)
  • Placing body text in the content folder(leading=height)
  • Inserting decorative text/ title graphic (page 47)

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