Week 4 - Images

1. Agenda
   1. General Q and A.
   2. Document Elements
      1. bgcolor
      2. background image
   3. Working with Images.
      1. the IMG tag.
      2. File formats.
         1. JPEG
         2. GIF
         3. PNG
      3. Imagemaps.
      4. Demos of student work.
2. Interesting Sites
   1. DoubleTake magazine
   2. Entropy8
   3. io360
   4. Razorfish Subnetwork
3. Assignments
   1. Scan some still images into the computer. It's would be best to use original photos that you took yourself; try not to use scans from a magazine. Save your image(s) in a variety of bit depths and formats.
   2. Try to make a full-screen image (at least 800x600) that comes out less than 30 KB in size.
4. Interesting Readings
   1. "A Regretful Tone in Judge's Decision on Internet Pornography," Carl S. Kaplan for the New York Times, 2/5/99
   2. "Phony Diana Photo Reignites Debate on Internet Postings," By Amy Harmon for The New York Times, 9/22/97
5. Readings for Learning
   1. Creating Graphics for the Web
   2. "Digital Watermarks: New Tools for Copyright Owners and Webmasters," by Doug Isenberg for WebReference
   3. Steganography References (A form of cryptography where data is hidden in an image file.)

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Building Web Sites - ITP Winter 1999 - Mike Cosaboom, Instructor

mc39@acf2.nyu.edu