web graphics course: drawing gifs, backgrounds, icons and buttons

Web graphics course: gifs, backgrounds, icons and buttons

This is a little web graphics course which doesn't cover all computer graphics issues, because I should develop a whole site to talk about it. So here you will be able to find all what you need in order to begin and build images for your web pages.

Screen and Pixels
Color Models: HSB, RGB, CYMK and LAB
Vectors and Bitmaps
GIFs and JPEGs
Custom palettes and system palettes
Other graphic file formats
Compressing and saving images
Anti-aliasing

Some exercises:

Ex. 01: building a background
Ex. 02: building a transparent GIF
Ex. 03: building shadows
Ex. 04: building a 3D button
Ex. 05: building a Yahoo-style 3D button
Ex. 06: building a 3D bar