Adobe Photoshop CS2 for the Web Hands-On Training (Paperback)

by Tanya Staples (Author) "You can use Photoshop CS2 and ImageReady CS2 to create a variety of images for the Web..." (more)
Key Phrases: Macromedia Flash, Color Picker, Default Browser (more...)

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Learn Adobe© Photoshop® CS2 for the Web with hands-on exercises and demo movies

Do you like to learn by doing? Do manuals leave you bored and craving realworld examples? Do you want concrete training that goes beyond theory and reference materials? If so, this is the book for you.

These hands-on exercises teach you the latest techniques for designing Web graphics and animations. You’ll learn how to optimize images, slice images, and create interactive rollovers. You’ll also learn how to design effective navigation, including elements such as Web buttons, navigation bars, tabbed navigation, and iconic navigation. Plus, you’ll learn techniques for integrating Adobe Illustrator, Adobe GoLive, Macromedia Flash, and Macromedia Dreamweaver with Photoshop into your workflow. Complete with insider tips, illustrated with detailed graphics, and accompanied by a CD-ROM loaded with classroom-proven exercises and QuickTime movies, this book ensures you’ll master the key features of Photoshop CS2 in no time.

Over 100 Step-by-Step Tutorials

• Organize Assets
• Optimize Images
• Optimize Transparent Images
• Create Web Backgrounds
• Design Navigation
• Create Animations
• Slice Images and Layout
• Create Rollovers
• Create Image Maps
• Create Data-Driven Graphics
• Integrate with Illustrator, GoLive,
Flash and Dreamweaver

Tanya Staples is a freelance author and educator teaching traditional and digital art. She has a bachelor’s degree in fine art and art history and a bachelor’s degree in education. Tanya is the author of Photoshop CS and ImageReady CS for the Web Hands-On Training as well as numerous video-based training titles in the lynda.com Online Training Library, covering Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter, Jasc Paint Shop Pro, and Keynote. As the former program manager for the Corel Painter product line, Tanya designed, taught, and wrote about graphics software. Tanya lives in Ottawa, Canada with her husband Matt and son Erik.

lynda.com, Inc. specializes in training books and video instruction for creative professionals. Check out the web site at www.lynda.com.
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About the Author
Tanya Staples is a freelance author and educator who teaches traditional and digital art. She has a bachelor's degree in fine art and art history, and is currently completing a bachelor's degree in education. For the past five years Tanya has designed, taught, and written about graphics software, most recently as the program manager for the Corel Painter product line. When she's not in front of a computer or a classroom, you can find Tanya in the kitchen cooking up a storm for friends, creating stained glass artwork, or touring the back roads of Ontario on her motorcycle.

Product Details

• Paperback: 672 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press (June 20, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321331710
• ISBN-13: 978-0321331717
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #293,062 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book, August 1, 2005

By	Carl E. Olsen (Ankeny, IA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've read the first nine chapters, and I'm really enjoying this book. It covers a lot of the new features in version CS2, such as being able to see an example of a font in the list of fonts, layer comps (snapshots of layer configurations), and smart objects. The book's focus is the web, and that's what I do all day. There are a few typos, but the books is so thorough that its extremely easy to spot them (ignore them). This book actually has less typos than most of the technical books I read. The videos on the CD are great and supplement the material nicely. I'm very impressed with this book. I don't read many from cover to cover, but this one is worth it.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Photoshop beginners who want to design for the web. , October 11, 2005

By	J. Garrett "Webbie" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book, like must books from Lynda.com, is very easy to follow with lots of excellent screenshots and helpful supporting exercises. The content is well arranged and covers both ImageReady and Photoshop CS2. The focus is on web design so if you plan to use Photoshop for anything other than web design dont go for this book. If your focus is the web this title is perfect as it covers those features of Photoshop most relevant to the design of websites. One criticism is that the design methodology in some parts is a lttle dated. The embedding of too much page and link text in images reduces a web pages chances of good search engine rankings, hence it would be better to present methods supporting the use of text based navigation using CSS, but this is my only criticism. I find that just about anything from Lynda.com is excellent as a learning resource.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great PhotoShop book!, July 27, 2006

By	Frank Stepanski (PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Photoshop CS2 is the pretty much standard in web graphic design and digital photograph editing now and is a great tool to know. The author assumes no prior knowledge on knowing Photoshop or any other graphic editing tool. So if you're a novice (like me) or have used other graphic editing tools in the past, this is a great book for you. The other thing that is great about this book is that each chapter includes video tutorials from [...] as well as exercises to work on that review each topic covered. Throughout each chapter there beautiful, color screenshots of what is covered as well.

The book covers the basics first with an introduction to the interface (menus, palettes, toolbox), how to organize assets, color theory and manipulation, layers, type fonts and optimizing images. The rest of the book goes into useful topics that really can help you in web design such as creating web backgrounds, designing navigation, create transparent graphics, image slicing and creating rollovers.

For someone like me who does not have a graphic design background at all and can barely draw stick figures, this really helped me understand PhotoShop and use it to create some nice looking graphics for my web sites that I create. If you have any type of design skills this book will really help you take your skills to the next level.

A must buy!