Synopses & Reviews
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
Synopsis
"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. Topics include: Creating Photoshop Actions to automate Web productionUsing Photoshop as a Web layout toolMaking graphics and images leap from the screenTechniques for optimizing GIFs and JPEGsAvoiding the dreaded "halo" effectImproving digital photographs Working with browser-safe colors to create stunning images regardless of platform or hardwareQuickly building Web backgrounds, buttons, and graphical typeAvoiding color shifts when importing vector images
Synopsis
The special requirements of the Web present many challenges to Photoshop users. This book gives a wealth of tips and techniques for creating fast, quality images for the Web. Author Mikkel Aaland, a professional photographer, explains the issues and shares the best tricks from top designers. The CD-ROM contains software and images.
About the Author
Mikkel Aaland is an award-winning photographer and the author of nine books, including Photoshop CS2 RAW (O'Reilly 2006), Shooting Digital (2nd edition, Sybex, 2006), Photoshop Elements 4 Solutions (4th edition Sybex/Wiley, 2006), Photoshop for the Web, 2nd edition (O'Reilly, 1999), Still Images in Multimedia (Hayden, 1996), and Digital Photography (Random House, 1992). Since 2001 Aaland has been a regular guest on G4's Call For Help TV Program with Leo Laporte. In 2003 he was a guest columnist for newsweek.com. In 2004, Shooting Digital was named the best "Digital Photography" book of the year by the Designer's Bookshelf.
Aaland's documentary photographs have been exhibited in major institutions around the world, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the former Lenin Museum in Prague. In 1981 he received the National Art Directors award for photography. He has contributed both text and/or photography to Wired, Outside, Digital Creativity, American Photo, The Washington Post, and Newsweek, as well as several European publications.
Aaland has been a pioneer in digital photography, an interest that dates back to a 1980 interview he conducted with Ansel Adams. When Aaland asked Adams what he would be pursuing if he were just starting out, Adams discussed at length his fascination with digital photographs of the planets. Aaland has pursued this new technology since its infancy. During the 1980s he reported on digital photography as west coast editor of the Swedish FOTO magazine, and wrote a column on the subject for American Photographer magazine. Aaland is one of the few orginal Adobe Lightroom's alpha and beta user, and he served as an unpaid advisor on the project for over a year.