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Web Color Expert: All That You Need to Create Fantastic Web Color (Web Expert)

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While this book covers the importance of a Web-safe color palette and what colors vibrate, shock, stand out and clash, it covers a lot more territory that one would expect.

Extremely Mac-friendly, the book is busting w/ screenshots from Mac OS 10.x (aqua interface), including many industry standard applications such as Fireworks and Photoshop. This should not scare away the Windows user, as color theory and the applications used are cross-platform.

Topics and skills such as image slicing, transparent backgrounds, animated graphics and more are explained in detail.

Adding color into Macromedia Flash and even adding your own splash into QuickTime movies is explored. This book is a true treasure trove of skills and knowledge... and the person looking for this book may never need the information and the person needing this information may never think to look in this book for that information in the first place.

This will be a mainstay on my reference shelf as I continue to push the envelope in Web design while balancing the needs of the visually impaired and the limits of the browsers currently available.

I just picked this book up from the library, and have decided not to buy it. As you can see from the below reviews, it does indeed contain some useful technical advice, but nothing that you could not read in any primer on Photoshop, Dreamweaver or general web design book. I was hoping to find a book elaborating on color theory, color schemes & color psychology, but no such luck. You get about 10 pages about this, then it moves on to calibrating monitors, applying anti-aliasing and creating layers in Dreamweaver. Not recommended if you need a deeper insight into color theory.

I recommend Web Color Expert for anyone seriously interested making a professional looking web page. The basic color theory taught in this book is essential in the visual presentation of a web page. The downside though is the whole technical part of the book is done entirely through the eyes of a apple computer, though the programs are on both the PC and the Mac so there isn't too much of a difference in the location of things. The book almost specifically uses Dreamweaver though out all of its examples. And the step-by-step fashion it's displayed in makes it really easy to follow and understand.
It begins with an introduction to color theory and then goes into color and how the computer affects it. Web Color Expert even touches upon the issues of color-blindness. The book elaborates upon html and color and the many programs used. Basic design and technical elements are discussed in a step-by-step layout. It goes onto describe in great length computer images and techniques to present them on a website. Flash and movies are covered last. Basic Flash techniques are shown from basic motion tweening to more complex morphs. The movie portion, which is the last portion of the book shows how to put Quicktime movies on a website and different ways to display it.