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Optimising and re-sizing large hi-res images for an e-commerce web site
Experts,
I am looking to do a piece of Coursework in Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
I wish to use Dreamweaver for creating the e-commerce site (sports clothing) and wish to use Photoshop or ImageReady CS to optimise the images.
Having not created an e-commerce site before I would like some info on:
1: What size should I make the images (I wish to place 6+ more images in a gallery style table per page).
2: The images will be thumbnails and when the user clicks the image it will open to full size.
3: Any techniques in Photoshop or ImageReady to make this task as simple as possible.
4: If part 3 can be done using 'automated actions' in ImageReady please can you provide a tutorial or steps on how to do this.
Finally, because the colour of the images will be important due to the nature of the scenario (buying clothes), any advice on web safe colours, resolution etc will be really welcome.
Thanks if you can help.
I am looking to do a piece of Coursework in Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
I wish to use Dreamweaver for creating the e-commerce site (sports clothing) and wish to use Photoshop or ImageReady CS to optimise the images.
Having not created an e-commerce site before I would like some info on:
1: What size should I make the images (I wish to place 6+ more images in a gallery style table per page).
2: The images will be thumbnails and when the user clicks the image it will open to full size.
3: Any techniques in Photoshop or ImageReady to make this task as simple as possible.
4: If part 3 can be done using 'automated actions' in ImageReady please can you provide a tutorial or steps on how to do this.
Finally, because the colour of the images will be important due to the nature of the scenario (buying clothes), any advice on web safe colours, resolution etc will be really welcome.
Thanks if you can help.
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Many thanks for your excellent answer David B. This was very concise and clear, gave me all the answers I was looking for, and has given me an excellent guide to follow. Thanks very much for your help and expert advice. Much appreciated.
mm.. in Dreamweaver, put the resized pics accordingly.. and add a link to the original pic.. and target put as _blank.. it should open up in a new window.. OR.. if you know a bit of java scripting in Dreamweaver, you can try lightbox to create a photo gallery..
take a look at the lightbox here.. http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/lightbox2/index.htm
hope it helps? :)