Photoshop 7/ImageReady For the Web Hands-On Training [Paperback]

Lynda Weinman (Author), Jan Kabili (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321112768 | ISBN-13: 978-0321112767 | Publication Date: December 29, 2002

When scanning the bookstore for Photoshop titles, it may seem like there are as many books on how to use Photoshop 7 as there are people to use it. The trick is to find that one book that addresses your specific needs. For example, if you want to learn how to use Photoshop 7 with ImageReady 7 to create high-quality images for the Web, you can bypass all of the more general titles in favor of Photoshop 7/ImageReady Hands-On Training.

The update to this best-selling book focuses specifically on using Photoshop 7 and ImageReady 7 for the Web with guided, tutorial-based lessons and exercises that have been developed and tested in Lynda Weinman's lynda.com digital arts training center. Each lesson contains extensive background information designed to help you understand the process as well as the particular exercise. You'll also learn how to create Photoshop rollovers, animations, image maps, transparency, layer styles, automation techniques, and more. If you're a beginning to intermediate Web designer, or a Photoshop user who is looking for a great tool to create graphics for the Web, this book has exactly what you've been looking for!

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From the Back Cover

When scanning the bookstore for Photoshop titles, it may seem like there are as many books on how to use Photoshop 7 as there are people to use it. The trick is to find that one book that addresses your specific needs. For example, if you want to learn how to use Photoshop 7 with ImageReady 7 to create high-quality images for the Web, you can bypass all of the more general titles in favor of Photoshop 7/ImageReady Hands-On Training.

The update to this best-selling book focuses specifically on using Photoshop 7 and ImageReady 7 for the Web with guided, tutorial-based lessons and exercises that have been developed and tested in Lynda Weinman's lynda.com digital arts training center. Each lesson contains extensive background information designed to help you understand the process as well as the particular exercise. You'll also learn how to create Photoshop rollovers, animations, image maps, transparency, layer styles, automation techniques, and more. If you're a beginning to intermediate Web designer, or a Photoshop user who is looking for a great tool to create graphics for the Web, this book has exactly what you've been looking for!

About the Author

Jan Kabili is a digital author, instructor, and artist. She has taught hundreds of students how to use Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, and GoLive at Lynda.com's Digital Arts Training Center in Ojai, California. Jan's "Designing Web Graphics" column appears monthly in Mac Design magazine. She has spoken at Photoshop and ImageReady Web design conferences around the nation. She also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Electronic Art from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has exhibited her digital artwork and photography professionally. She is the co-author of the previous edition of this book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 616 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press (December 29, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321112768
• ISBN-13: 978-0321112767
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,717,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deep ImageReady, February 23, 2003

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Solo Goodspeed (Granada Hills, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Photoshop 7/ImageReady For the Web Hands-On Training (Paperback)

The most comprehensive tutorial you're likely to find covering PhotoShop's "little web sister", leave it to Lynda.com to come up with THE ImageReady book. Don't let the title mislead you, especially if you're already a long-time P-Shop veteran. The information contained in these pages, accompanied by outstanding tutorials and full color illustrations, is NOT a rehash of stuff you already know; it is a means of making the transition from traditional publishing to creating full-blown web pages with minimal compromise.

Even seasoned users of Adobe's cornerstone image editing tool may find some new and useful tips in streamlining graphics production - I certainly did. Instructor Jan Kabili makes the journey such a pleasure (not to mention a productive use of time), one could actually become converted to working in lo-res art! As in other titles by this publisher, the exercises are straighforward, economical and plentiful - the reader is presented with a great deal of material in relatively short order, yet in a way that is not at all difficult to retain practical information.

Granted, Adobe ImageReady is not a web management tool ..... that's Macromedia Dreamweaver's job, and though it may not integrate with that program as closely as, say, Fireworks, it contains no shortage of tools for fully preparing, creating, optimizing and animating raster images for web use. This entry in the highly-praised Hands-On-Training series is as good an introduction as you'll find on making full use of ImageReady in a short time, and a genuinely enjoyable one at that.

Acquire, read, and get thyself web-ready.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Absolute Best!, February 19, 2003

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P. Schoepke "WebberNM" (Santa Fe, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photoshop 7/ImageReady For the Web Hands-On Training (Paperback)

This is by far the best and most informative and detailed book of its kind. It covers every aspect of "everything you ever wanted to know about" rollovers and rollover animated menus! It does not leave you 'missing something' or saying: 'yes, but it really doesn't cover...' - It covers everything! The accompanying CD is excellent!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's so nice to have Lynda & Co. to turn to..., June 14, 2007

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Allan Ostermann "allan" (Portland (the one on the left)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Photoshop 7/ImageReady For the Web Hands-On Training (Paperback)

I started reading Lynda Weinman's books way back when she did a book on creating graphics for the web. I don't recall the title, but it was a book on optimizing images, and it was made way back in around '99.

What I guess I'm saying is that Lynda is an authority, she knows what she's doing, and just as importantly, knows how to actually convey her knowledge in an understandable, interactive way. Hands On Training is kinda like those DeVry ads you've seen for so many years during Perry Mason episodes. It's about learning by doing. I mean, how are you going to learn how create layer masks with gradients and textures that are linked and include shapes and are feathered with paths and........if you're reading a book with one paragraph after another, and very few numbered steps. Are you really going to remember that shortcut key for the magic wand from reading a manual written in paragraph form, with one pictured example every 3 pages?

And, to sidetrack, do you really want to learn how to make 3-D warped multicolored lettering to be used in a Word newsletter?

I say no. And so does Lynda, I'm sure. And so, I'd guess, does DeVry. I've used Photoshop for 12 years and I'd say I'm an intermediate. Maybe in 20 years I'll know what Lynda and her fine associates know.