The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques
Finally a book from Sitepoint on Photoshop, The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques. Written by Corrie Haffly, who's provded Sitepoint with numerous great Photoshop articles.
The book will cover several important techniques, such as:
- Design attractive web graphics
- Touch up photographs for web use
- Create seamlessly tiling backgrounds
- Improve your workflow
- Use non-destructive editing techniques
The Photoshop Anthology comes in full-color and is specifically made for web designers that wants to use Photoshop to create websites and website graphics fast and efficient. The book covers all the important graphic elements:
- buttons
- backgrounds
- text effects
- optimized photos
- web interfaces
- animated GIFs
- ..and much more
The book is specifically written for web designers, it takes you through the process of how to design a website, organizing layers and folders
Book is currently available from Amazon ($13.58 discount from Sitepoint's prize): The Photoshop Anthology
From Sitepoints Description of The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks &Techniques:
SitePoint's first full color book, The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques provides you with over 100 tried-and-tested real-world Photoshop solutions for you to use on your projects. If you've ever been stuck for inspiration, or have puzzled over just how to create that shiny "Aqua" style button, or that seamlessly tiling background image you saw on a web site recently, you need a copy of this book.
Author Corrie Haffly has drawn on her extensive Photoshop experience to show you how to create a multitude of web graphics, ranging from buttons to backgrounds to other user interface elements. Corrie also covers ways to greatly improve your workflow and make working with Photoshop more efficient through batch processing and the automation of repetitive tasks.
Following the same step-by-step, problem-and-solution format used in other SitePoint Anthology books, this book is packed with best-practice, innovative and visually stunning techniques to produce amazing graphics for your web sites.
The book's full color layout and larger than normal size (8" x 10") were especially designed to help show off the techniques demonstrated in the book. The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques also includes download access to all of the Photoshop (PSD) files used in the book — that's over 50MB of files — so you can use them right away in your projects.
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