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How to Wow: Photoshop for the Web

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Corrupt and missing project files for Chapter 4 got me off on a bad foot with this book. The integration of the book with its CD contents also strikes me as having been very poorly done, definitely inferior to what I have come to expect from the many Book/CD combos that I have purchased, especially for books dealing with Photoshop. On the plus side, the book is well illustrated and the textual instructions are reasonably clear. The projects tend to be cookie-cutter in their approach - which could be a plus or a minus depending on what you are looking for.

The one thing missing from this book that would have been of real benefit is one or more examples of creating a complete web page design from scratch.

The product description gave me the assumption that I would learn how to make web-layouts and buttons from scratch. So I ordered the book. When it arrived I sat on the couch with the book in my hands, thumbed through it and got dissapointed by the minute. It teaches you how to add objects to prefab stuff. That's not the way I want to learn things. I want to learn how to make things from scratch.
When you know how to make lay-outs and so on in Photoshop, this book may give you additional info. When you are a Novice and want to learn how to make everything by your self this book is a waste of money.

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I stumbled around the publishers website after being annoyed at the missing Chapter 4 files, and I found the above link to download the files.

Overall it was a decent book, but as a newb I was looking for a whole lot more information on building from scratch.

The title says it all. I think that this website provides a service for all type of readers.

The book is an excellent book for graphic ideas. It is especially useful for beginners who suffer from "Designers Block". However, the title may give people the idea that this Book will show you step by step Photoshop techniques which it does not.

Pros: Great examples and information. Learned a lot in the week that it took to go through it. Will use it as a photoshop reference for a long time.

Cons: A few typos or missed steps that left me hanging and needed to play around with various options to get the desired result.

This book has some great ideas and is laid out in an easy to follow manor. Even thought the software continues to march forward and is dated in the book it is still worth while.

This is the same old book I had versions ago. I really liked these books but they haven't updated them and the book I JUST bought still refers to ImageReady which has been defunct for quite sometime. They removed the version number on the cover so I "assumed" it had been updated - nope. Now I have 2 copies of the book - same content, different covers. Bummer.

This book does a great job of covering a complex topic in a clear, concise, and beautifully illustrated way. It teaches by step-by-step example, and it distills what could be pages of background info into short "Insight" explanations that appear on the page to answer your questions exactly when they occur to you. "Tips" and "Cautions" help you work more efficiently and avoid pitfalls. In just 200 pages the book covers the use of Photoshop and ImageReady for designing and producing interactive navigation elements, animations, individual web pages, and entire web sites. The beautiful book design (by Jill Davis) helps make all of this information accessible. And all the pieces you need for the examples are provided on the CD-ROM that comes with the book. This book is a winner!