Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A professional image editor’s guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC

Chapter 14. Output for the Web

There is the well-known saying ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, and it is so true – pictures allow us to communicate visually with clients, friends and family, in ways that words alone cannot. The Internet is something most of us use every day and having the means to transmit images has become extremely important to us. The most obvious advantage of sending or displaying images via the Web is its immediacy. Pictures can be sent around the world almost instantly and it is quick and easy to prepare an image to be distributed. The downsides are that, unlike producing a finished print, you have little or no control ...