Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

photographs, and to adjust the contrast, color balance, or other characteris-

tics. You can also use art software to create backgrounds or navigation but-

tons that take the viewer from one place to another on the CD.

4. Open your images in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and crop your photo-
   graphs (if necessary).


5. Create navigation buttons in Photoshop (see Figure 19.4) or find free buttons
   on the Internet. Visit Google.com and enter the search phrase “Web site but-
   tons” and visit some sites. Usually the free buttons aren’t as valuable as the
   tutorials for making buttons in Photoshop or Illustrator.

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FIGURE 19.4
Building but-
tons in
Photoshop
Elements for
your custom
CD.

6. Prepare the text. Text such as titles and captions can be created either in
   Photoshop or Macromedia Director, or imported from a word processing pro-
   gram such as Microsoft Word. Text can be embedded in pictures using
   Photoshop.


7. Write and lay out the text portion of your CD. This is probably the easiest
   part of the assignment, as long as you have something to say. Place the sub-
   ject matter, the time the images were taken, and any other story behind the
   pictures in your document.


8. Add video if you have it. You will need to learn how to import video into your
   project (see Figure 19.5). Prepare video clips (optional). Videos can be con-
   verted to digital QuickTime movies using an editing program like Adobe
   Premiere, iMovie, or Microsoft Movie Maker.