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Wednesday, July 8
Fetch Fest, Scanning and Photoshop

Goals for today:

• Discuss design and planning your Web pages and Web sites.
• Review Fetch and file transfer protocol (FTP), and demonstrate the importance of "raw data."
• Introduce the steps required to scan photos and convert them into graphic images suitable for use on on the Web. We will use some of the basic Photoshop functions to accomplish this, and will review the differences between GIFs, JPEGs and TIFFs.
• Review the scary side of Photoshop.
• Read an online newspaper or magazine while you wait your turn!

Assignment:

• Bring a photo of yourself (or another photo you own) to scan and include on your Web page
• Read the Dead Tree sections about scanning photos, image file formats, and everything you ever wanted to know about FTP and Fetch. see pages 197-240

Related sites:

• Fetch Help
• Uploading Web Pages
• ColorCenter: Some help with color, backgrounds, etc.
• How to make a web page from nothing
• An HTML Primer: a handy reference of many common tags
• Pictures on a Web page
• Web Topics: Frames, Image Maps, and Emerging HTML Topics
• Adobe Submits Proposal to Improve Quality of Web Graphics
• HTML Review at www.arachnoid.com
• Bob's Image Excess rant

So, What Did You Learn Today?