Photoshop Web Magic (Vol 1) [Textbook Binding]

Tom Emmanuelides (Author), Renee Lewinter (Author), Ted Schulman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Magic | Publication Date: December 1996

This book provides numerous examples of dazzling Web graphics, textures, backgrounds, buttons, and special effects in a recipe format with simple step-by-step instructions. The book will detail specific graphic techniques for customizing Web design to fit client needs.
-- Provides expert advice for print designers moving to the Web
-- Presents a wide array of four-color special effects for World Wide Web pages
-- CD-ROM includes filters, fonts, textures, useful demo software, and sample HTML conversion-software products

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Photoshop Web Magic is a four-color book with instructions on how to use Photoshop to create numerous effects. The authors show you how to create backgrounds, titles, icons, rules, buttons, and bullets using such elements as photos; patterns; clip art; custom brushes; decorative fonts; gradients; and 3D, neon, beveled, and glass effects. The authors also demonstrate how to design menu bars with tabs and gradients, how to create rotating and twirling animations, and how to produce many other sample effects.

This book has a direct style and an attractive design, which is handy because you need to have a clear visual understanding of what effects you're trying to produce when creating Web graphics. The book claims to be for both beginners and experts, but solid experience with Photoshop is helpful for tackling some of the tasks. What sets this book apart from others is that you see not only what the effects look like, but also how good-looking the effects are. A CD includes practice files, clip art, photos, fonts, Web utilities, and trial versions of filter plug-ins.

Product Details

• Textbook Binding: 224 pages
• Publisher: Hayden Books (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568303149
• ISBN-13: 978-1568303147
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.7 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,780,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars mediocre web graphics book, November 11, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Photoshop Web Magic (Vol 1) (Textbook Binding)

Photoshop Web Magic is OK for individual graphics, but does not relate to designing an entire page easily. I used this book in teaching a class on web graphics and it was not very useful. It appears to be a rush job, so that the publisher could get something out with the word "web" in the title. It is OK for reference, but the exercises tend to be too gaudy or tacky for most professional web pages.

5.0 out of 5 stars Step by step understanding of Photoshop, January 4, 2001

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John Martian - See all my reviews

This review is from: Photoshop Web Magic (Vol 1) (Textbook Binding)

I enjoyed the easy to follow recipe style of this book. After following the exercises in this book Photoshop revealed itself to me.

1.0 out of 5 stars Thin piece...., June 26, 1998

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[e-mail] (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Photoshop Web Magic (Vol 1) (Textbook Binding)

This book might be good for complete beginners, but even though im not an experienced web-designer myself, I had read the book in less than an hour. A thin piece that i will not recommend unless you are a complete beginner.