Photoshop 6 ImageReady 3 Hands-On Training (With CD-ROM) [Paperback]

Lynda Weinman (Author), Jan Kabili (Author)

Book Description

Series: Hands on Training | Publication Date: October 11, 2001

Photoshop 6/ImageReady 3 is one of the few Photoshop books that focuses on the Web instead of print, and much to the delight of Web artists, it shows you how to use both Photoshop 6 and ImageReady 3.0 together. To learn this powerful Web-tools combo to its fullest potential, you need a teacher like Lynda Weinman, whose years of experience and pure enthusiasm for the medium are evident throughout her hands-on lessons. Weinman uses classroom-proven techniques from her training center to demonstrate how and when to use Photoshop 6 and ImageReady 3 to create appealing and quick-loading Web graphics.

The latest title in our H.O.T. series, Photoshop 6/ImageReady 3 Hands-On Training focuses on the newest tools and automation devices available in this combined package. The book guides you through a series of exercises of increasing complexity, giving you hands-on, step-by-step experience in optimizing and previewing GIF and JPEG graphics, slicing Web images, using layers to create rollovers and Layer Effects to automate buttons, using ImageReady to "tween" animations, and much more. The book includes a new chapter on layers that shows you how to use layers to create masks, clipping paths and effects, plus a CD-ROM with sample files for all of the exercises and QuickTime movies that illustrate some techniques. Even if you're an experienced artist, you'll be surprised at how much you'll learn about Photoshop from this pioneering Web author.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Narrower in focus than SAMS Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 6 in 24 Hours (Computer Media, LJ 4/1/01), this guide for intermediate users focuses on using these two programs together in designing web graphics. ImageReady ships with Photoshop 6 and seamlessly integrates with it; although most Photoshop titles give ImageReady short shrift, here it finds equal billing. The accompanying CD-ROM includes QuickTime movies demonstrating a number of techniques from the book and sample files for use in the tutorials. Recommended for larger public libraries.

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From the Back Cover

Photoshop 6/ImageReady 3 is one of the few Photoshop books that focuses on the Web instead of print, and much to the delight of Web artists, it shows you how to use both Photoshop 6 and ImageReady 3.0 together. To learn this powerful Web-tools combo to its fullest potential, you need a teacher like Lynda Weinman, whose years of experience and pure enthusiasm for the medium are evident throughout her hands-on lessons. Weinman uses classroom-proven techniques from her training center to demonstrate how and when to use Photoshop 6 and ImageReady 3 to create appealing and quick-loading Web graphics.

The latest title in our H.O.T. series, Photoshop 6/ImageReady 3 Hands-On Training focuses on the newest tools and automation devices available in this combined package. The book guides you through a series of exercises of increasing complexity, giving you hands-on, step-by-step experience in optimizing and previewing GIF and JPEG graphics, slicing Web images, using layers to create rollovers and Layer Effects to automate buttons, using ImageReady to "tween" animations, and much more. The book includes a new chapter on layers that shows you how to use layers to create masks, clipping paths and effects, plus a CD-ROM with sample files for all of the exercises and QuickTime movies that illustrate some techniques. Even if you're an experienced artist, you'll be surprised at how much you'll learn about Photoshop from this pioneering Web author.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 672 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Education (October 11, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 020172796X
• ISBN-13: 978-0201727968
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,453,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fuel Your Creativity, March 28, 2002

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Eddie VanArsdall (Alexandria, VA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Photoshop 6 ImageReady 3 Hands-On Training (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

Because Lynda Weinman comes from the perspective of a real designer, I find that her books always provide fuel for the reader's creativity. While these books REALLY do teach, they also encourage the reader to experiment.

I am a fan of Adobe's Classroom In A Book series, but I did not find the Photoshop or Illustrator books to be geared toward the beginner. Exercises were often very layered and complex with pages of steps. The book didn't not always adequately explain the purpose of all the steps. The risk of presenting such long exercises is that if the learner makes a mistake and doesn't achieve the intended results of the book, the source of the mistake isn't always easy to trace.

In contrast, Kabili and Weinman provide short, simple exercises, adhering to the proven fact that learners absorb information in bit-sized chunks. The exercises in this book are paced so that the reader can take breaks and try what was just learned. Don't mistake this brevity for lack of information, however. The authors are very thorough and wise about choosing what's practical.

Best of all, there's lots of good advice. Photoshop is presented as a tool for web design, and the authors remind us about the Web's capabilities and limitations. We also get honest advice about small Photoshop annoyances (thankfully there are few!) and how to design around them.

I politely disagree that this book is "not focused." On the contrary, its purpose is obvious from Chapter One: how to set up Photoshop to work as a web design tool. We are taught how to deal with color and color settings and how to optimize graphics early on so that we can concentrate on more fun tasks.

I believe Lynda Weinman is a born teacher, as are all the co-authors with whom she associates. This is my third HOT book, and I use them when I need to absorb an application's features and capability quickly. I encourage you to try this book and see if it doesn't spark your creative fires.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really good hands-on-training, November 7, 2001

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CharlesV (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Photoshop 6 ImageReady 3 Hands-On Training (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

I've used many training/exercise books for learning programs (it's my favorite way of learning computer programs). This book is well-organized, thorough, and leaves no gaps (that is, if I encounter something unexpected, the author--Jan Kabili--has generally anticipated it and has a note on why that occurred). Also, it goes deeply into Photoshop/Imageready for the web like no other books I've seen. Unlike many other very good Photoshop books (that hardly touch on Imageready), this one is the one to have if you want to know everything about Photoshop/Imageready and the web.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Okay, now we're getting somewhere!, February 13, 2002

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Leon Davis (Mesa, Arizona, United States of America!) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photoshop 6 ImageReady 3 Hands-On Training (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

Okay, I'll be the first to adnit I'm not the fastest chip on the board, but with Jan and Lynda's good efforts, I'm finally making some progress! In fact, I've progressed farther with this book than I have with eight others I've purchased in the past year.
Unlike most other manuals which just throw the information at you in big, indigestible chunks, the information provided here is easy to comprehend. Largely because you're encouraged to play around with the exercises and try lots of different things. One cannot help but learn. Just got through doing some layer masks...piece of cake! I now understand transforming type, shape layers, layer styles, backgrounds, not to mention slicing and rollovers.
The physical layout of the book is clean, tight, and has lots of color. The language is precise and to the point.
One small criticism: please, please, please, keep the silly cartoons and pictures out of the text. The grinning monkeys and the cute kids, (at least I hope she's cute, how can I tell?) making stupid faces. I have trouble enough trying to make sense of everything, and I don't need the silly distractions. All the writers do this, by the way.
Nonetheless, this is an excellent book, and I highly recommend it to all my wannbe, newby, frustrated Photoshop guru friends.
Now, if only Lynda would do a GoLive 6 book (hint, hint)