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Remember your textbook. In chapter 3, "Speedy Graphics" there are a number of good lessons on creating web graphics:

Reducing colors in GIFS ........... p. 38
Aliasing type .................p. 46
JPEG compression .....................p. 55

 

Painting

1. Make sure you're on the background layer
2. Double-click on the paintbrush tool, and make sure opacity is 100%
3. Window>Show Brushes> and click on the 35-pixel brush
4. -paint arcs of four different colors over the bell of the horn
5. Make the foreground white, paint a white arc
6. Sample one of the note colors (hold down Option) to temporarily change to the sample.
7. Release the Option key and change the opacity in the options palette to 80%
8. Do the same with red, except make opacity 60%
9. Now do the same with a green note (but at 40% opacity)
10. Display the "History" palette: Window>Show History
11. Click on Fade Angle Strokes in the history list. Then you revert to the way it looked then.
12. Now let's try a gradient fill. Choose Window>Show swatches and click a blue swatch to set your foreground color.
13. Double-click on the linear gradient tool. Chose Foreground to Transparent, and make the opacity 30%.
14. Drag the tool from the top left to the bottom right
15. -might see spots of white you didn't remove from the French horn
16. (Save)

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