Product Description

While Adobe Photoshop is the standard application for editing images for print, its powerful features also make it useful for editing images placed on the Internet. Web Designer's Guide to Adobe Photoshop goes beyond an explanation of creating and editing images by focusing on the next step in web development: placing images and graphics into working web pages. Whether your goal is to expand your professional skills or simply handle your local club's website, this book will help you not only create web pages but also get them working properly on the World Wide Web.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #226479 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

Solid, but spartan
This book is a solid introduction to using Photoshop in web design, but it's a bit spartan. The book primarily follows the creation of a (presumably) fictional law firm's website. Unfortunately, the book stays glued to the construction of this one site until the last couple of chapters when the author finally desides to send a couple more examples the reader's way.

I personally found the majority (two out of the mere three) of the designs he used to be a bit messy. The law firm site, in particular, looked out of sorts. Cascading 3D images abound in that design (3D buttons on top of a 3D header, which also has a seperate 3D logo), causing it to look more like an amateur's attempt at being professional than an actual professionally designed site. The steel website example was a bit better, with the exception of the 'Forged In Steel' box. It just seemed a bit out of place compared to the rest of the design.

While the book does describe how to transform your newly created Photoshop design into a webpage, it only describes the easiest, simplest way to do so. Those newbie coders looking to find a way to use Photoshop in conjunction with a CSS-based layout are out of luck. This book only describes how to put your new images into Dreamweaver in design mode, resulting in the page being automatically constructed entirely out of tables. No code (html or otherwise) wanted, or allowed, in this book, apparently.