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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

Working with images


Images are used throughout your iAd,for backgrounds, themed graphics, your logo, image galleries, and user-configurable wallpapers. They're probably the most common media type in your iAd and are available in a variety of formats, which can be manipulated and edited to enhance your ad's performance and experience.

Understanding the different image formats

In our iAds, images can be either JPEG or PNG, depending on what kind of image they contain or what they're going to be used for. JPEGs are typically smaller in file size, as they can be extensively compressed. PNGs often are better quality and more versatile, but this comes at the cost of their larger file size.

You should use JPEGs whenever you can. However, consider using PNGs when:

  • Your image contains text: The crisp edges of text can get lost when the JPEG is compressed.

  • Your image contains sharp edges or shapes: Just like with text, the JPEG compression process often blurs sharp line edges.

  • Your image has large...