Adventures in Web Design: CAT274

In Week 7, we learned to animate GIFs in Photoshop. It’s nice that Photoshop now allows you to take care of that within the program. The way that ImageReady was integrated into CS2 was really obnoxious. You’d have to do raster work in Photoshop, and then if you wanted to export it for web use or do anything web-savvy, all of the best tools were in ImageReady. You’d celebrate 2 or 3 birthdays while you waited for your content to load in ImageReady, and if you decided that your image needed any changing, you could either wait for the import back to Photoshop or work with the graphics technology equivalent of a large rock. Fireworks seems to be a much more redundant program than ImageReady, but I think I’d prefer redundancy to overly-specific programs.

Tangent aside, Here’s my gif. Seeing photos rendered in GIF generally turns my stomach, but this one isn’t too bad.

http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/cat/cat13/week7/anim.gif