Product Description

Take Your Visual Creativity to the Web!

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 – the industry-standard image editing tool.

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX – the professional choice for building websites and internet applications.

Imagine what you can do when these two heavyweights get together…

From Photoshop to Dreamweaver takes you straight to the heart of why these two applications are the best in their respective fields, and why they are made for one another. Written for the Photoshop user who wants to take their design flair and artistic creativity to the Web, this book will show you how to turn your Photoshop creations into fully-functional, fully-interactive, and visually stunning websites.

From designing a mock-up of your site to getting it online, From Photoshop to Dreamweaver shows you every step you need to get the most out of your Photoshop creativity – designing your site in Photoshop, streamlining your graphics in ImageReady and making your creations available to everyone on the Web using Dreamweaver. We assume you have used Photoshop before, but even if you are a complete novice with Dreamweaver and ImageReady, you’ll find all the information you need right here…

Learn, with easy-to-follow examples, how to:

Plan out your design, with the Web in mind

Optimise your images, so that they’ll load quickly, but still look great

Create interactive buttons and animations using ImageReady 7.0

Build templates and style sheets in Dreamweaver MX to keep your pages consistent and save yourself time

Edit, adjust, and redesign elements of your site with a minimum of effort

Upload your site to the Web and take full advantage of Dreamweaver MX’s amazing site management tools

In addition, the final stages of the book will lead you step by step through the often daunting process of acquiring a web address for your site, and setting up somewhere to host your new design masterpiece, as well as giving you some expert tips on how to avoid some of the pitfalls of designing for the Web.

From Photoshop to Dreamweaver is the first book to recognise the unique partnership these two industry-leading tools offer you, the designer. In this book, we’ve used the latest versions of these tools: Photoshop 7 and Dreamweaver MX, but the principles and guidance provided remain the same and most steps can be achieved with earlier versions of these tools.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105374 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
Colin Smith is an award winning Graphic Designer who has caused a stir in the design community with his stunning photorealistic illustrations composed entirely in Photoshop. He is also founder of the popular PhotoshopCafe web resource for Photoshop users and web designers. He has won numerous design contests and awards, including Guru Awards at the 2001 Photoshop World Convention in LA, 2002 in SanDiego and MacWorld 2002 in NY. Colin's work has been recognized by Photoshop User, Mac Design, Dynamic Graphics, Computer Arts, Studio Multimedia and WWW Internet Life magazines. Colin is also a regular columnist for NAPP members’ site and Planet Photoshop.

Between Freelance Design and writing for foED, he keeps pretty busy. Colin has co-authored New Masters of Photoshop, Foundation Photoshop, Photoshop Most Wanted and Photoshop 7 Trade Secrets.

Crystal has been writing about consumer-oriented technology since the ‘80s - back when 5MB hard drives were a novel upgrade! She’s author of two books, Web Concept & Design, and Universal Web Design (New Riders), and of many, many articles. She’s been an editor at a number of magazines and was director of MFWeb conferences, among other roles. Crystal is a long-distance charity cyclist and avid kayak-fisherman. She lives and fishes with her boyfriend Dwayne and dog Nellie in Vermont. Her sites are typo.com and girlbike.com.

Customer Reviews

To be a professional you must think like a professional!
This book was excellent from start to finish. This book guides the reader through the 3 stages of online production and instructs on how to use photoshop and dreamweaver effectively to create professional looking web pages faster then I can say "cheese". I amazed myself that I produced a professional site in just 2 days!

If you want to set yourself apart from amateur sites and begin your journey on the road to professional web design, I would without hesitation recommend this most excellent book!

A must purchase
Have been using both applications for some time and could never connect the two properly to create a visual great looking site with the functionality of dreamwaever. So I bought this book. I am glad I did, it explains how and why, give you a demonstration for you to do and is quite clear through out. After a bit I was creating visually stunning site with ease. A must purchase and a great reference book to go back to time and again.