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A company I am applying with wants a person to do all of their web art. I think I can do this. I’m good with most Adobe products, but need some help from you, because IMHO, you can never be too prepared.
Pretend like you’re the interviewer I’m going in to see next week. What questions do you want to ask me in a short in-person interview?
I’m not worried about Flash or vector stuff, that’s easy enough to keep down to small file sizes, but in Photoshop, I go to save for web and can strip the color table and make compromises on compression and get the best preservation of rendition and smallest file size. But this is not all there is to it: One of the best web artists I’ve ever worked with was in the Philippines and he was able to get his file sizes down to 3k and in that range, still get good image sizes and preserve color.
I don’t know how he did it. Any insight in that area would be handy to me at this point.
Also, my other big weakness: Calibration! I shy away from the color calibration thread on this forum because it makes my head explode. I have no trouble getting colors to come out the same on litho printing, web screens and anywhere else, but I also don’t know why others make such a big deal about it. I’ve never had trouble with it. I just use ‘no profile’ for all my images.
Fill me in on these two subjects to be able to at least make one intelligent murmuring at the interview – I don’t need to know a whole lot or read books at this point (I’m still wading through Camera RAW and PHP books that are gluing me to the wall right now.)
I know we have sharpies here, I need your input please,
Ken
Pretend like you’re the interviewer I’m going in to see next week. What questions do you want to ask me in a short in-person interview?
I’m not worried about Flash or vector stuff, that’s easy enough to keep down to small file sizes, but in Photoshop, I go to save for web and can strip the color table and make compromises on compression and get the best preservation of rendition and smallest file size. But this is not all there is to it: One of the best web artists I’ve ever worked with was in the Philippines and he was able to get his file sizes down to 3k and in that range, still get good image sizes and preserve color.
I don’t know how he did it. Any insight in that area would be handy to me at this point.
Also, my other big weakness: Calibration! I shy away from the color calibration thread on this forum because it makes my head explode. I have no trouble getting colors to come out the same on litho printing, web screens and anywhere else, but I also don’t know why others make such a big deal about it. I’ve never had trouble with it. I just use ‘no profile’ for all my images.
Fill me in on these two subjects to be able to at least make one intelligent murmuring at the interview – I don’t need to know a whole lot or read books at this point (I’m still wading through Camera RAW and PHP books that are gluing me to the wall right now.)
I know we have sharpies here, I need your input please,
Ken
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