Photoshop Web Techniques [Paperback]

J. Scott Hamlin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1997

Master Photoshop as a Web graphics tool -- then learn how to put the results into action.
-- Comprehensive step-by-step tutorials teach you how to harness the power of Photoshop as a Web graphics tool from creating small file footprints to batch processing images
-- Shows one how to put your graphics into action through JavaScript, Animated GIFs, Shockwave, and other graphic techniques
-- Full-color examples bring these techniques to life showing you how things actually look
-- CD-ROM contains scripts, sample images, and tiles ready to use in your Web page. CD-ROM also includes popular graphics utilities that enhance the power of Photoshop graphics

Photoshop is the undisputed graphics tool for creating images for the Web. Web developers and designers learned early on that Photoshop is invaluable for their Web graphics work. As the power of images increases for the Web through background tiles, moving images, and sheer volume of images through buttons and icons, so has the power of Photoshop. Adobe has added many new functions to the core Photoshop program that will aid Web developers in doing their job effectively and quickly. Some of these new features include Web graphics file formats and the ability to script Photoshop to carry out batch-processing procedures to multiple files automatically.

Photoshop Web Techniques not only comprehensively covers Photoshop as a Web tool, but also includes a feature called "...and Beyond", which shows Web developers how to use the images they create with JavaScript, Shockwave, Animated GIFs, Background Tiles, Interface Design, and many other graphical uses. This feature is unique to a techniques-based graphics book. This will prove tobe a popular feature for Web developers because most of them do not prepare graphics exclusively -- they also implement the end result for the Web page.

This is a step-by-step Web graphics techniques book that teachers readers how to effectively use Photoshop for their work. The information does not stop at how to use Photoshop. The ...and Beyond feature shows readers how to incorporate their graphics in many different Web-based technologies.
-- Sample scripts
-- Sample files from the tutorials
-- Browser-safe color palettes
-- Sample images
-- Buttons and other navigational interface elements
-- Background tiles
-- Graphics utilities

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Photoshop Web Techniques is a lavishly illustrated and succinct guide to creating graphics for the World Wide Web. Offering a complete view of the subject, it focuses on putting an attractive face on site graphics, optimizing file sizes and color palettes for Web use, choosing the correct compression schemes and file formats, and creating interesting image maps and text effects.

This book will work particularly well for those who have a basic grasp of Photoshop and the Web, but who want to learn to create professional looking images that download quickly. Readers will also learn some neat tricks and special effects, as well as the use of Photoshop graphics in Shockwave presentations and JavaScript applets.

From the Publisher

Written by a highly successful, well-known author, this step-by-step guide not only teaches users the techniques they need to master Photoshop Web graphics, but also shows them how to incorporate their graphics in many different Web-based technologies. - Teaches how to put graphics into action using JavaScript, animated GIFs, and Shockwave

- Full-color examples bring techniques to life, showing users how things actually look

- CD-ROM contains sample scripts, example files from tutorials, browser-safe color palettes, sample images, buttons and other navigational interface elements, background tiles, and graphics utilities

Product Details

• Paperback: 270 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Pub (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562057332
• ISBN-13: 978-1562057336
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,469,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, out-of-date, and expensive, June 15, 1999

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Jm Tarbotton (New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photoshop Web Techniques (Paperback)

Like many people, I cannot justify the great expense of upgrading to Adobe's Photoshop5. Since I already had Photoshop4, I just needed some extra information on using the software for web based design (Photoshop4's area of weakness). That's where this book comes in.

It really is an excellent book, but having already had its 2nd birthday, it is now showing its age in many areas. Thus it is a catch22 situation. Its a great book and one of few that still deals with an older software package, yet it needs some revision. I'm not sure I'll keep it yet.

Perhaps if the out-of-date sections were removed OR the price was dropped so that it was more realistic, it would remain a winner.

Email me if you want to know more about how useful it actually is (and whether I kept it).

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reading, have one question though !, January 1, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Photoshop Web Techniques (Paperback)

Still not sure how to influence the colors of a particular area of an image (page 73). When I change the indexed color, the whole image changes (I don't see an area receiving preference) although I thought I followed the example. What am I doing wrong?

Other thaen that I found the book very informative and helped a great deal on understanding other areas in Photoshop I had questions about. Thanks!--Mike

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars super livre, December 20, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Photoshop Web Techniques (Paperback)

parfait complément aux autres livres sur photoshop. Les techniques appliqués au web sont très bien expliqués. Acheté il y a un an je m'en sert toujours.