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iAd Production Beginner's Guide

By : Ben Collier
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iAd Production Beginner's Guide

By: Ben Collier

Overview of this book

Think of an iAd as a micro-app contained within an app on a user's iPhone or iPad that they've downloaded from the App Store. When the user taps your advert's banner it bursts into life filling the entire screen of their device. iAd Beginner's Guide takes you through the start to finish process of building rich, compelling, interactive iAds. You will learn to create beautiful multi-page ads with store finders, social sharing, 3D images and video galleries. You will create ads that utilize the powerful technologies in the iPhone to make your brand shine. Once you have engaged the user you can carry out targeted advertising campaigns with location-based coupons, store finders and social engagement. Using the iTunes Store you will see how it's even possible to add one-click digital content purchasing right within your ad. Learn how iAd producer manages all the HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3 behind your iAd. You will be creating emotive, gripping and effective mobile advertising campaigns in no time.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
iAd Production
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Time for action — optimizing an image


There are many applications available to optimize images; we'll be using ImageOptim as it's free and open source.

Note

ImageOptim analyzes each image and determines the most efficient algorithm, or best way, to compress the content, then removes any unnecessary comments or color profiles. ImageOptim is lossless, so our images won't lose any quality.

  1. 1. Download ImageOptim from http://imageoptim.pornel.net.

  2. 2. Extract the downloaded file by double-clicking on it. Drag the application to your application folder.

  3. 3. Open ImageOptim.

  4. 4. Drag your images onto the table in the app; it'll automatically optimize and save each one. You can drag multiple images at a time or an entire folder, and ImageOptim will process them all and display the saving.

    Note

    ImageOptim can optimize all the file formats supported by iAd, so our JPEGs, PNGs, and GIFs all can benefit from sophisticated file size reduction.

  5. 5. Your images are now optimized! You can see the savings you make...