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Adobe Photoshop CS2 for the Web Hands-On Training

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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.

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.

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!

Absolutely the most informative book I've ever seen written on software education. Hands on Training plus the DVD movies leads you through each and every project. I can't praise it enough.

I (like most people I'm sure) typically just dive into a program and through a combination of using the application help and Google searches eventually figure out how to do what I want. Well for Photoshop this was proving harder than I thought there are just too many options and quite frankly I'm a software developer not a graphic artist. I needed a way to quickly get up to speed on creating graphics for my web sites, this book was a big help.

It covers the basics such as tool locations, colors, layers and fonts. It then goes into optimizing images for the web, creating web backgrounds, navigation items (buttons, menus, etc) and transparent images. Plus it covers animation and integrating with other Adobe products.

The only thing it did not cover that I wished it had was creating page headers like the header on this site [...], but with the other stuff I learned I was able to create one for my [...] site(you can judge how I did). I did ding the score 1 point for this omission.

All in all it's a book well worth getting if you are starting out with Photoshop.

I had to purchase this book for a class I'm taking and the book is incredibly helpful. It has easy demonstrations to follow--which really help if you're a "hands on" learner, as I am. The book comes with a CD-ROM that has files you can use for the demonstrations as well as demo movies that you can watch. I also had no previous Photoshop experience and still had no problem. I highly recommend it!

This book is good at showing you how to make images ready for the web. It's not for first time photoshop users, but if you need tips and tricks for web design, it's a good book to have.

I bought this book several months ago, but only recently found the time to spend a little time with it. This is a fabulous book! It is impeccibly well-organized and presents in a crystal-clear manner the topics that are the most important. Each major section of each chapter includes an exercise for which all of the necessary files are readily available on the included CD. Each exercise is explained (in the usual crystal-clear fashion) in the book, and by going through the steps that it involves yourself, using the supplied images, you quickly develop a solid understanding of all of the essential ideas that are covered in the corresponding section of the book.

Generaly a good book but most of the examples start with giving you photoshp files broken up into different "layers". However the book misses how to take a photo and start to divde it up into its components to work on it. The instructor of the course I was takin just said that ws for a basic photoshop course not a photoshop for the web course. Perhaps but that is a basic function of using the software that is missing from the book. This is good for how to use photoshop for the web but you will need a 2nd general introduction to photoshop as well

I just wish their was a more updated version because the image ready / Photoshop cs2 combo is a bit different than the CS4 version but still a lot of stuff to learn on there