Photoshop for the Web

By Mikkel Aaland
First Edition   
Pages: 238
ISBN 10: 1-56592-350-2 | ISBN 13: 9781565923508

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Photoshop for the Web shows you how to use the world's most popular imaging software to create Web graphics and images that look great and download blazingly fast. The book is crammed full of step-by-step examples and real-world solutions from some of the country's hottest Web producers, including HotWired, c|net, Discovery Online, Second Story, SFGate, and more than 20 others.
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Photoshop for the Web shows you how to use the world's most popular imaging software to create Web graphics and images that look great and download blazingly fast. The book is crammed full of step-by-step examples and real-world solutions from some of the world's hottest Web sites, including HotWired, c|net, Discovery, National Geographic Online, SFGate, and many more. Photoshop for the Web starts where other Photoshop books leave off. Topics include:
  • Creating Photoshop Actions to automate Web production
  • Using Photoshop as a Web layout tool
  • Making graphics and images leap from the screen with transparency
  • Improving photos taken with a digital camera
  • Working with browser-safe colors to create stunning images regardless of platform or hardware
  • Quickly building Web backgrounds, buttons, and graphical type
  • Customizing Photoshop for web production
  • Controlling anti-aliasing with custom brushes
  • Getting rid of the dreaded halo syndrome
  • Optimizing images for JPEG compression
  • Animating with Actions
  • Importing vector graphics into Photoshop
  • Using guides to design and crop
  • Coding layout information in a Photoshop layer

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Media reviews "Most books on Photoshop devote one or two chapters to designing graphics for the Web, but the art and craft of using this image-creation software could fill its own book. To that end, O'Reilly comes to the rescue with Photoshop for the Web.

"The book is written by Mikkel Aaland, a photographer, writer and Web producer who knows more than a little about Web graphics. He interviewed many graphic artists behind such well-known Web sites as HotWired, C|Net, Discovery Channel and Second Story, and learned the many tips and tricks of their trade. This book is not merely a dry manual on how to use Photoshop, it's a detailed and well-written guide with advice from experienced users.

"There are plenty of neat tricks in this book for getting the best results using Photoshop for the Web. It includes tips on adaptive palettes, creating usable non-Web palette colors, and optimizing images for clarity and file size. It also has tricks derived wholly from experience with digital media. For example, most pictures taken with a digital camera look better by enhancing the blue filter (most digital cameras are weak in capturing blue). The book also looks at how to use Photoshop to automate the production of images for the Web, using Photoshop as a Web layout tool and avoiding color shifts when importing vector images. In short, Photoshop for the Web has plenty to keep Photoshop users interested.

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