Product Description

The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks and
Techniques is a compilation of the most useful Photoshop techniques for web
designers.

Packed with step-by-step solutions and full-colour illustrations, this is
the only Photoshop book you'll ever need.

- Learn the basics: image sizing, layers, vector shapes, transparency, and
more.
- Create a multitude of different buttons: aqua-style, metallic, glassy,
and more.
- Design seamless tiling backgrounds: rice paper, brushed metal, granite,
and more.
- Work with text: style it, create special effects, wrap it around 3D
objects, and more.
- Touch up photographs, match colours, and combine different images.
- Make graphics for CSS rollover buttons.
- Create animated GIFs.
- Mock up an entire web site and easily switch between different versions.
- Work smarter: automate your workflow with batch commands and actions.

And lots more...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86764 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-12
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Synopsis
The Photoshop Anthology is full-color, question-and-answer book for Web Designers who want to use Photoshop to build Websites and create better looking web graphics more effectively.The book covers: Photoshop interface tricks & shortcuts Basic Skills: Transparencies, rounded corners, blending images, matching colors and more Buttons: Creating buttons and tabs in various shapes and form factors Backgrounds: Making various gradient and textured backgrounds Creating text effects, texturing and shadowing text, wrapping text around a curve, and more Adjusting Images: Removing blue tints, darkening and lightening images, fixing red-eye, removing dark shadows, sharpening images and more Manipulating Images: Creating fish-eye effects, removing imperfections, making product shots for ecommerce and more Creating Web Interfaces: Best practice & time saving ideas including how-tos on slicing images, creating rollovers, and more Advanced: Generating thumbnails, animated GIFs, bulk watermarking, sharing Photoshop Actions and more Additionally, the book will walk you through the entire process of designing a Website in Photoshop - from using layers to keep organized to using the slice tool to create individual Website elements.

From the Publisher
The Photoshop Anthology is full-color book, focusing on how
Web Designers can use Photoshop for creating and manipulating web graphics
and building web sites.

The book will show you how to use Photoshop to create buttons, backgrounds,
text effects, optimized photos, web interfaces, animated GIFs and more for
your web site. Plus, you'll learn the most effective process for creating a
web site in Photoshop - everything from organizing your work through
layers, to creating individual web site elements using the slice tool.

About the Author
Corrie Haffly has been using Photoshop to create web graphics
since 1998. She lives with her husband in Davis, California, which has the
distinction of being the first city in the US to paint bike lanes on a
street. When not running errands on her bike, enjoying a good book, trying
out a new recipe, or finding more ways to be organized, Corrie works
extensively with PixelMill, the leading industry provider of web site
templates.

Customer Reviews

Noob book - complete garbage
Was long time thinking of buying one more nice Photoshop book. But this one is absolutely useless.
"101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques" is not correct name for this book. I would say: "how to use Photoshop for starters".

About author: "Corrie Haffly has been using Photoshop to create web graphics since building her first web page in 1998"
That's exactly time from wich i use Photoshop and at that time we waited for 5-th version of programm. Very strange book for person who works so long with Photoshop.

Whole book is a bit information from "help" and other you can find out yourself for some hours just checking what every button means.
Author very much likes such layer styles as "bevel and embross", but for person who used and uses photoshop nowdays should know that people already not exited about "candies" and are very much fond of really good design.
A lot of screenshots that are about a half of book (1/3 as minimum) The book is really for people who are too lazy to read "help" and wanna it in printed version. But don't think it cost 27 dollars.
For people who have at least medium level in using Photoshop this book will be really useless. I wanted some book that will help me to find smth cool before i will pass my Adobe Sertification Exam, but when i choosed this book i just through out my money on wind.


Don't know what author trying to say with this book, but i think it's not fair. I still have book from '99-2000 year where is absolutely the same information. Everybody who knows photoshop in middle level and have a bit of time and wish can also read such book himself.

1 star. Yes and it's even too much, cause it's only for color-printing of book, to what the author have no connection.

Think good reviews (so more then two stars) to this book can give only people who don't know nothing about Photoshop and have no wish to find out primitive things themselves of just friends of author.

And as for author - i would strongly recommend her subscribe to "Advanced Photoshop" magazine

Excellent book - great quality and a friendly read
For the last few years I've done a pretty good job of avoiding Photoshop, hiding behind the "I'm not a Graphic Designer" line. However I've recently taken on responsibility for the interface design of the Intranet systems where I work, as well as the backend stuff. So needing a crash course in Photoshop I picked this book up. I was amazed how quickly I got to grips with the concepts - I was whipping up professional looking graphics very quickly.

The most striking thing about the book is the quality of the printing. It's in full color, which is a massive help with a graphics book, and it looks great. Probably the best looking technical book I've read for a good while. It is slightly larger than the usual size of technical books, and laid out in a very easy to follow way - the book has a real sense of flow thanks to this.

The other thing that struck me was the way in which it's written. The author takes a very informal tone which I had mixed feelings about at first. However it was easy to get used to, and the writing style gives the book a very relaxed, friendly feel - it makes the book very easy and enjoyable to read.

The book is made up of sections of related short tutorials, for example a tutorial on making buttons leads into making buttons with various types of effects and looks. In isolation some of these tutorials don't seem very useful, especially considering the current trend for clean CSS driven websites. However they are in fact excellent at teaching the core concepts used in creating the majority of the highlight graphics you'll see on websites today. Once you've mastered the gradient and glassy buttons, for example, you can use the highlight techniques from these tutorials and apply them to highlight graphics, icons and other little niceties for use all over the place. The book goes on to teach the most of the concepts in involved in creating graphics for website, either from scratch or using existing images.

I was very impressed with how quickly I was able to start using Photoshop and producing graphics without having to rely on tutorials or other images for guidance. Its one of those books that's best read next to your PC while your trying out ideas and concepts as you go along - if your after a book that's light on theory and that will very quickly get you exploring Photoshop for yourself I'd definitely recommend this.