Discusses the latest Web graphics software application for the creative business user who needs to create professional-looking Web graphics. Provides an overview of Adobe's brand-new Web graphics creation tool and takes the reader through a discussion of the capabilities of this new product, which enables the reader to get up to speed quickly. Shows in step-by-step format how to create sophisticated Web graphics, such as applying special effects, imagemapping, HTML table slicing, batch imaging operations, and using interactive JavaScript rollovers.
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Those using ImageStyler will easily learn plenty of new tips and techniques in Adobe ImageStyler in Depth, a guide to Adobe's Web-graphics tool. The book pairs a fun and casual tone with detailed content, so it succeeds in serving both the beginner and the more intermediate user looking for real hands-on insight. Adobe ImageStyler shows you how to create textures, backgrounds, styles, JavaScript rollovers, layouts, navigational elements, and animations. You also learn about batch processing; using ImageStyler with popular vector, bitmap, and HTML tools; and optimizing your images with Adobe ImageReady.
This book doesn't shy away from palette, platform, browser, and bandwidth issues, but it doesn't bury you with too much technical detail either. Large screen shots and illustrations, clear headings, and step-by-step procedures simplify the learning process. A four-color section shows many ImageStyler graphics, and the companion CD-ROM has more artwork as well as demo and shareware versions of ImageStyler, Photoshop 5, Illustrator 8, and several utilities for Mac and PC. Appendices on shortcuts, fonts, image mattes, and seamless textures round out the book. --Kathleen Caster
From the Back Cover
Supercharge your Web graphics productivity with Adobe ImageStyler! Stop pushing those pixels around! Adobe ImageStyler is a next-generation Web graphics creation tool that works with vector artwork to produce stunning bitmap images in record time. Adobe ImageStyler In Depth dives into the program's features. This book goes far beyond the program's documentation to help you take your designs to the next level. You'll learn the ins and outs of ImageStyler in an easy-to-read, hands-on manner. A CD-ROM packet with original artwork rounds out this impressive package.
About the Author Daniel Gray is the author of Adobe PageMill 3 f/x and design, the groundbreaking Photoshop Plug-ins Book, best-selling Inside CorelDRAW!, and coauthor of The Official Palace Tour Guide, among other books about graphics and Internet-related topics. Dan has spent his entire career in the graphics trenches, working on the Web since 1995 and writing computer books and articles since 1990. His Web sites can be found at www.geekbooks.com and www.pluginparty.i-us.com.
Adobe ImageStyler In Depth gives you the information and tools you need to:
Work with textures, layers, and 3D effects
Craft gorgeous JavaScript rollovers
Cook up delicious batch graphics
Create beautiful Web backgrounds
Take charge of ImageStyler's styles
Knock out killer buttons and navigational elements
Slice graphics and use ImageStyler alongside your other applications
Build cool animations
Use Adobe ImageReady in conjunction with ImageStyler to optimize graphics
CD-ROM Contents:
A collection of original artwork, including:
5,000+ seamless JPEG and GIF textures
100+ hand-drawn image mattes
100+ handy shapes
50+ ImageStyler styles
Demo and shareware software, including:
ImageStyler
Illustrator 8
Photoshop 5
Micro Fox Screen Ruler (Mac/PC)
iView Multimedia (Mac)
BoxTop Software GIFmation (Mac/PC)
Xaos Tools Terrazzo (Mac/PC)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you use ImageReady, you need this book!!!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Adobe ImageStyler In Depth: The Latest Design Tool for Creating Sophisticated Web Graphics (Paperback)
Dan did a great job with PageMill in Depth, but ImageStyler in Depth shows this man knows not just his HTML, but his graphics, too. And where would the web be without graphics? Anyone who uses the program...beginners and advanced users alike...can buy this book and benefit from it. In fact, it's a "must have" for your web library. Adobe hit a home run when it released the program, but if Dan didn't get a grand slam with ImageStyler in Depth, I don't know what would. I teach web design and web graphics on a daily basis, and Dan's book shortend my learning curve considerably. I think so much of this book, I'm buying copies for my students and distributing them in class. Get it. You won't be disappointed. Maybe the best features of the book are in the back. Dan shows you how to integrate other popular graphic programs with ImageStyler, and reserves an entire chapter for ImageReady, another great Adobe product.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great supplementary guide to using this super program.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Adobe ImageStyler In Depth: The Latest Design Tool for Creating Sophisticated Web Graphics (Paperback)
As a graphics professional who is just beginning to explore the techniques of web site design, I found this book a great help: first, it is a good supplementary guide to the manual Adobe provides, and second, it helps explain some technical design principles which are unique to the web. If you have just purchased Imagestyler, I recommend it highly.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Waste of Money,
By A Customer
This review is from: Adobe ImageStyler In Depth: The Latest Design Tool for Creating Sophisticated Web Graphics (Paperback)
I bought this book long time ago hoping to learn Image Styler by myself, but It didn't help me. There is nothing in this book that was valuable whichI couldn't figure it out by myself, or by the free tutorials available on the web.One important thing I figured out ( and I am speaking for myself) is that Image Styler is not the kind of software that need proper training before being able to use it, every thing is ready made and so clear, except maybe for the Javascript rollovers. Don't waist your money on this book, or any book about Image Styler for that matter. Put your money on more powerful tools such as Photoshop or Flash
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