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Professional Web Graphics

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This is a rare book in that it actually teaches how to make images for Web pages, as opposed to just showing different cool Photoshop effects. Most graphics books go through the different features of popular image software, but leave you to figure out how to apply that information in making cool sites. This book focuses on the end product and includes exercisies to give practice. Although it is a textbook, the style is not academic. The situations and examples are all from real-world environments that you might find yourself if you created Web graphics for a living. I would have liked to have seen more on vector software such as Illustrator and Flash, but that minor issue doesn't diminish the value of the book. Side note: The table of contents that Amazon lists book does not match what is actually in the book.

Don't buy it. I was forced to purchase this book for a web graphics class I had and found it to be useless. If you need to read up on technology it only makes sense to utilize the latest editions of texts you can find. I don't know what my instructor was thinking.

I agree with the previous reviewer that this is basically a textbook, but not at all dry, and quite readable with plenty of real world examples.

Designing web graphics is not an easy subject matter: the software (Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash) is powerful but has a bit of a learning curve. Like a bunch of my colleagues, I've been using GRSites for making graphics for my web design projects, but this book has helped me to finally take the plunge and learn photoshop like the "pros". Great book, Mr. Slaybaugh!