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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3944513 in Books
• Published on: 1997-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 270 pages

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

Customer Reviews

Excellent, out-of-date, and expensive
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).

Excellent reading, have one question though !
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

super livre
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.