Adobe Photoshop 5.5 Web Design [Paperback]

Michael Baumgardt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1999

Take the industry-standard image editing powerhouse, Adobe Photoshop, and pair it with a professional-quality Web-site development tool, Adobe GoLive, and what do you get? A solution for creating innovative, imaginative, dynamic Web-site designs with exponential powers. Naturally, with all these capabilities user skill is also part of the equation. That's why Adobe Photoshop 5.5 Web Design with Adobe GoLive 4 is essential reading (and viewing). Lavishly illustrated, this gorgeous book covers the ins and outs of using both applications as well as ImageReady and ImageStyler that together form the suite of Adobe Web tools. It's all here, from the basics, such as organization and navigation techniques and Web color management, to each application's explanation of unique strengths, along with illuminating suggestions from renowned Web designers.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Aimed at graphic design artists who work on the web, this beautiful book, typical of Adobe Press, explains how to manipulate images with Photoshop and then use ImageReady to prepare them for the web; the final step is the application of GoLive 4 to create beautiful, highly interactive web pages.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Back Cover

Take the industry-standard image-editing powerhouse, Adobe Photoshop, and pair it with a professional Web site development tool, Adobe GoLive, and their powers grow exponentially. With this combination, you get the tools you need to create innovative, imaginative, and dynamic Web sites. However, your skill is also part of the equation. That's why Adobe Photoshop 5.5 Web Design is essential reading--and viewing. Lavishly illustrated, this gorgeous book covers the ins and outs of using both applications, as well as ImageReady, giving you a strong foundation with Adobe's suite of Web tools. It's all here, from basic topics such as organization and navigation techniques and Web color management, to explanations of each application's unique strengths, to illuminating suggestions from renowned Web designers.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; 1st edition (November 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201700123
• ISBN-13: 978-0201700121
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,237,052 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great inspiration, February 18, 2000

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"elinesca" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Photoshop 5.5 Web Design (Paperback)

I must say that I am a bit confused over some of the critisism this book has been given. It covers everything it says it will cover, what more can one expect? Even if the gif, jpeg, png chapter is a bit lengthy, the book is inexpensive and gives VALUE for your money. I have spend much , much more money on "bible" book types which made me yawn and want to toss them out the window in spite of all "the useful" information in there. It is not so much HOW MUCH is given us to read for our money, but HOW IT IS PRESENTED and explained that matters. What good is 1000 pages on a subject when you feel it is a job in itself to just open the book? I think people here have confused issues over what this book really claims to do for you. This book is NOT a book on Photoshop, golive, or imageready techinques - if that is all you want you might not find it useful. It is a book on WEB DESIGN, using these applications! If what you want and need is a book that explains the mysteries of layout and arrangement on the web, a book that inspires you to do your own work, a book that containes wonderful examples and explains how you can do this yourself by using applications like photoshop, image ready, and golive, go and get it. Don't hesitate. I have NEVER been more pleased with a book, even if my library contains both wow books and Bible books and much much more.

50 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, January 9, 2000

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[e-mail] (Philly, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Photoshop 5.5 Web Design (Paperback)

This book spent over 70 pages talking about GIFs, JPGs and PNGs...and the book is only 300 pages long. The chapter on GoLive is 17 pages and ImageReady is hardly mentioned. The book should have been called "Using GIFs, JPGs and PNG." The bottom line- there is not much new content here. If you are familiar with Photoshop and GoLive then you don't need this book. Beginners will get some good background info but could get a much better book for their buck.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good book for the beginner webster and graphic artist, February 1, 2000

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L Michael Thompson (Denver Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Photoshop 5.5 Web Design (Paperback)

I just started reading this book and have found alot of useful and easy to understand information about the jpeg & gifs. In the other books about photoshop it was not really explained or shown what the difference looks like. This book is good for understanding photoshop 5.5 web design. In small print on the cover is ImageReady and GoLive. It mostly covers photoshop and designing for the web

I am new to design and photoshop. This book is helpful but not "that" helpful. If you want to spend the money and need more basic help for the web design buy it it will be helpful. If you are a stud at photoshop and know golive really good don't waste the time to even look at it.

This is a good book for the beginner.