graphic design & image editing
Even if you have a school full of very talented students (and students are an excellent source for your graphics), you still need to know how to manipulate images for your site. This section of the Webmaster deals with the basics of working with images with some more advanced stuff thrown in so we can all learn more.
This is a great article from Webmonkey that starts with a primer on how to buy a scanner and then goes through what you need to know in order to properly scan your images and prepare them for your web site.
Extremely Basic Graphic Editing for the Web **
For the graphics on your web site, you need to know how to set the resolution, resize, crop and save correctly. This tutorial will show you how using Photoshop or Graphic Converter.
Extremely Basic Graphic Editing for the Web, Part 2: Using Layers and Text in Photoshop **
Photoshop, of course, can do much more and this tutorial is an introduction to using layers to apply text to your already-created image.
Tweaking Photoshop Type for the Web
A good article from CreativePro about making the text you use in graphic elements the best it can be.
Web Background Graphics for Educators and Others
A tutorial on creating background graphics for your site from a school in Illinois.
Another Webmonkey article about triming the fat from the images on your site using Adobe ImageReady (packaged with PhotoShop) and Macromedia Fireworks.
Video Tutorials on the Adobe web site
These five videos came from the Art Directors Invitational Master Conference 2001. They explain how to do various small tasks in PhotoShop.
New Ways to Crop in PhotoShop 6
Work With Paragraphs
Using Print Options
Add Shapes to Your Library
Tips for Shapes and Text
