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Learning Adobe Muse

You're reading from   Learning Adobe Muse Create beautiful websites without writing any code with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849693141
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jennifer Farley Jennifer Farley
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Learning Adobe Muse
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Welcome to Muse 2. The Muse Workflow FREE CHAPTER 3. Planning Your Site 4. Powerful Pages 5. The Joy of Rectangles 6. Typography, Muse, and the Web 7. Working with Images 8. Customizing with Widgets—Menus and Panels 9. More Widgets—Compositions and Slideshows 10. Muse, Meet the Adobe Creative Suite 11. Previewing and Testing Your Site 12. Publishing Your Site

Hello web-friendly images


When we're designing our websites, it's important to keep in mind that images that are destined for the Web need to be prepared accordingly. Unlike the world of print where we can use huge file sizes at very high resolution, on the Web we need to compromise between a low size of image file and a high-quality image. Before we even open Muse, we make that compromise by following these steps:

  1. 1. Set the correct dimensions and resolution for the image: You need to decide how big your image should be and save it at that size before you bring it into Muse. While it is possible to resize an image in Muse (and we'll take a look at that shortly), it's good practice to save the image at the correct dimensions in Photoshop, Illustrator, or whatever graphics editor you're using.

  2. 2. Decide which file format you want to use: Image files used on the Web are saved as JPEG, GIF, or PNG. Almost all the web browsers recognize and are compatible with these file formats. (Each file format...

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