Kelly Johnson
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They can be. Just need to make sure they’re not too ultra-beginner oriented and waste half a day talking about file management, differences between a jpeg and gif etc.
You want to find a class that focuses on the software and how to achieve your results; not a class that is telling you about your data, ya know?
Lot’s of good books available. The Lynda.com training produces many of their lessons in books w/dvd and unless you live in a really small town, your local library is liable to have a Flash book or so from them.
Amazon is full of great used deals.
I only mention that because originally you asked for online or classroom but now say online stuff isn’t possible for you so I thought I’d offer that.
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What you want to do is, after you have the hi-res done. Select the crop tool. You’ll notice in the boxes across the top that you can enter width and height and resolution.
What you can do is enter a specific height or width, leaving the other blank so it will be proportional and then type 72 in the resolution box.
Drag the cropping tool around your image to select the crop, hit return and bam….save you file with a different name.
If you put dimensions in both boxes, the as you click and drag the cropping tool, you’ll see the outline of the crop and can do it that way.
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You mean in just learning them both? Lynda.com just can’t be beat short of having an expert sit next to you.
After Effects will take much more to use depending on your current knowledge of how video is different than print…resolution, codecs, formats etc.
InDesign is another layout tool.. even with the new interactive capabilities, which shouldn’t be there in my opinion but that’s a different story, it’s about the design of a static moment in time.
After Effects looks at the beginning, middle and end and everything inbetween so obviously the ramp-up time for AE is going to be longer.
Plus, the hardware used (RAM, storage, processor speed) are all much more important and effect directly your work experience in AE.
But, both are great to learn.
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a late entry here… yeah, css with background images is what you want. Then use css to position the content over the background in the areas it belongs.
Cool look.
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Personally, I always think of what the drawing needs first, then that I will probably want to print it out (so I stick at 300 dpi at least at A4) and then, for internet viewing I just re-crop to the desired width and keep the height proportional and at 72ppi.
Better to have enough resolution for printing up to 1.2x the actual size and be able to crop it back then to have to rely on a plug-in to res-it up, though nowadays, there are some pretty good ones out there.