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How to Wow: Photoshop for the Web
- By Jan Kabili, Colin Smith
- Published Dec 21, 2004 by Peachpit Press. Part of the How to Wow series.
- Copyright 2005
- Dimensions: 9 X 9
- Pages: 200
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-30330-X
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-30330-1
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A gaming site, a portfolio site, an information site: Each requires a home page, but each of those home pages requires disparate elements and approaches. How to Wow: Photoshop for the Web walks you through the process of designing each, plus 15 other navigation, animation, and automation projects that show you how to add wow to your Web pages with Photoshop-created graphics. Just like your favorite cookbooks-the ones with short, clear-cut instructions and mouthwatering photos of the delectable concoctions-this book identifies challenges, provides simple recipes for overcoming them, and plugs in inspirational photos of the glorious results. Part 1 takes you through a range of navigation, animation, and automation projects (creating rollover navigation, building animated slide shows, producing a dynamic Flash banner, and more), while Part 2 walks you through the steps entailed in creating home pages for gaming, portfolio, and information sites. Each project explains how to create a lush graphic element, while sidebars and glossaries provide the low-down on important underlying principles. A CD includes the lesson files and image assets required to complete the book's projects.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Wow Doesn't Wow,
This review is from: How to Wow: Photoshop for the Web (Paperback)
Corrupt and missing project files for Chapter 4 got me off on a bad foot with this book. The integration of the book with its CD contents also strikes me as having been very poorly done, definitely inferior to what I have come to expect from the many Book/CD combos that I have purchased, especially for books dealing with Photoshop. On the plus side, the book is well illustrated and the textual instructions are reasonably clear. The projects tend to be cookie-cutter in their approach - which could be a plus or a minus depending on what you are looking for.The one thing missing from this book that would have been of real benefit is one or more examples of creating a complete web page design from scratch.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Not for a Novice!, By Ben van der Veen (Nederland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Wow: Photoshop for the Web (Paperback)
The product description gave me the assumption that I would learn how to make web-layouts and buttons from scratch. So I ordered the book. When it arrived I sat on the couch with the book in my hands, thumbed through it and got dissapointed by the minute. It teaches you how to add objects to prefab stuff. That's not the way I want to learn things. I want to learn how to make things from scratch.When you know how to make lay-outs and so on in Photoshop, this book may give you additional info. When you are a Novice and want to learn how to make everything by your self this book is a waste of money.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Missing files found on publisher website, By
This review is from: How to Wow: Photoshop for the Web (Paperback)
http://www.peachpit.com/title/032130330X#info2I stumbled around the publishers website after being annoyed at the missing Chapter 4 files, and I found the above link to download the files. Overall it was a decent book, but as a newb I was looking for a whole lot more information on building from scratch. |
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There is a minor error on the first printing of this book's companion CD. On the CD The folder 'Chapter 4' has an extra space at the end of the folder name. This space causes Windows XP to hang. It does not effect Mac OS X opperating systems.
Windows users can download the replacement Chapter 4 folder and files here:
Replace_Chapter4.zip
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