The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques Book

SitePoint’s first full-color book, The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques is brimming with tried and tested real-world Photoshop solutions that will add impact to your next web design project. If you’ve ever been stuck for inspiration, have puzzled over just how to create a shiny aqua-style button, or wanted to create that seamlessly tiling background image you saw on a 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 and backgrounds to text and images. Corrie also explains techniques that can greatly improve your workflow and make working with Photoshop more efficient, including batch processing and the automation of repetitive tasks.

Following the proven step-by-step, problem-and-solution format used in other SitePoint Anthology books, this title is packed with best-practice, innovative, and little-known techniques that produce amazing-looking graphics for your web sites.

The book’s full-color layout and large format (8” x 10”) make this one of the most usable and enjoyable Photoshop books available.

Download access is provided to all of the Photoshop (PSD) files used in The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques, so you can use them in your projects immediately.

What will you learn?

This book will show you how to:
* Learn the basics: image sizing, layers, vector shapes, transparency, and more.
* Create a multitude of attractive buttons: aqua-style, metallic, glassy, etc.
* Create seamless tiling backgrounds: rice paper, brushed metal, and granite, plus many others.
* Work with text: style it, create special effects, and wrap it around 3D objects.
* Touch up photographs, match colors, and combine different images.
* Use eye-catching special effects.
* Isolate objects from images.
* Make graphics for CSS rollover buttons.
* Design an entire web site and easily switch between different versions.
* Optimize graphics for web use.
* Work smarter: automate your workflow with batch commands and actions.
* Create animated GIFs.
* And lots more…

Who Should Read This Book?

Every web designer who uses Photoshop to produce web graphics needs a copy of this book. Whether you’re relatively inexperienced, or you already have a host of sites in your portfolio, you’ll find countless useful examples, techniques, tips, and tricks that you can apply immediately to your own designs in this book.

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