Photoshop Web Techniques (Paperback)

by J. Scott Hamlin (Author)

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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.

Product Description
Photoshop is the undisputed graphics tool for creating images for the Web. This comprehensive, step-by-step tutorial teaches users how to harness the power of Photoshop and shows how to put graphics into action through JavaScript, Animated GIFs, Shockwave, and other graphics techniques. The CD-ROM contains scripts, sample images, and tiles ready to use in a Web page.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 270 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Pub (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562057332
• ISBN-13: 978-1562057336
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,503,976 in Books (See Bestsellers 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3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, out-of-date, and expensive, June 15, 1999

By	Jm Tarbotton (New Zealand) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Perhaps if the out-of-date sections were removed OR the price was dropped so that it was more realistic, it would remain a winner.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

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

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.