Product Description

The Photoshop Anthology is full-color, question-and-answer book for Web Designers who want to use Photoshop to build Websites and create better looking web graphics more effectively.

The book covers:

• Photoshop interface tricks & shortcuts
• Basic Skills: Transparencies, rounded corners, blending images, matching colors and more
• Buttons: Creating buttons and tabs in various shapes and form factors
• Backgrounds: Making various gradient and textured backgrounds
• Creating text effects, texturing and shadowing text, wrapping text around a curve, and more
• Adjusting Images: Removing blue tints, darkening and lightening images, fixing red-eye, removing dark shadows, sharpening images and more
• Manipulating Images: Creating fish-eye effects, removing imperfections, making product shots for ecommerce and more
• Creating Web Interfaces: Best practice & time saving ideas including how-tos on slicing images, creating rollovers, and more
• Advanced: Generating thumbnails, animated GIFs, bulk watermarking, sharing Photoshop Actions and more

Additionally, the book will walk you through the entire process of designing a Website in Photoshop - from using layers to keep organized to using the slice tool to create individual Website elements.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92273 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-29
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

About the Author
Corrie Haffly has been using Photoshop to create web graphics since 1998. She lives with her husband in Davis, California, which has the distinction of being the first city in the US to paint bike lanes on a street. When not running errands on her bike, enjoying a good book, trying out a new recipe, or finding more ways to be organized, Corrie works extensively with PixelMill, the leading industry provider of web site templates.

Customer Reviews

Good book for graphic beginners
I bought this book today after considering one other books. I needed a book on simple graphics. I have worked with Photoshop for a while but only for photo processing and need to learn more about graphics. I'm a very graphically challenged software developer (my 6 year old draws much better than me;) so I need every bit of help I can get;) However I'm going to return this book tomorrow for the other book I was looking at, Scott Kelby's "Adobe Photoshop CS Down & Dirty Tricks" as I found some omissions in the book that make it less useful than Scott's book. For example the section on creating a product box is only about placing the image on the box, but not about how to create the box. I need tutorials that take me step by step through how to make what I want to make. This file may be in the online archive for it, but I feel the book should have demonstrated the steps to create it.

I see some reviewers saying this book is garbage and for beginners. Well, it IS for beginners, which is why I bought it. But this book is definitely not garbage and there is a LOT of good stuff in it. It is aimed at a certain niche, which is people who want to start with something simple for their websites - pretty obvious from the title I'd think. If you are advanced user of PS for graphic work you will be disappointed, but IMO that's self inflicted since there is nothing that indicates that this book is for advanced users. For example there is a very good section on creating seamless tiles, something I have looked for in online tutorials for quite a while without much luck.

I give it 4 stars because it is lacking in some respects, but it does a good job overall. Just paging through it I have picked up quite a few ideas that I will be able to implement.

If you are creating or maintaining your own website and want to create some nice looking graphics for it but you are not familiar with creating graphics in Photoshop, this would be a good book. If you are looking for advanced book or bleeding edge graphic designs then this is probably not the book you are looking for.

Ultimate Photoshop book for BEGINNERS!!!!
This book is very basic. I was hoping to find some information on how to create interesting backgrounds and web graphic's instead I found garbage. If you have used photoshop for any amount of time this book is generic. I was very disappointed.

There are much better books that cover a much bigger range of photoshop tricks but I wasn't looking for tricks I was looking for a detailed book on designing things like web 2.0 buttons and backgrounds. If your looking for something like that turn around.

Jump Start!
Being relatively new to Photoshop, this book has proved very helpful. Everything is briefly and easily laid out for rapid application of content.