Publisher: O'Reilly Media Released: November 1999 Pages: 244
In this second edition, author Mikkel Aaland updatesPhotoshop for the Web to include important new techniques and workarounds for the latest release of Photoshop--version 5.5. The first edition was loaded with step-by-step examples and real-world solutions from some of the world's hottest Web sites. The second edition adds coverage of Photoshop 5.5's newest features, including a compression tool that ultimately leads to faster download times and higher quality Web graphics. This edition also details features new to version 5.0, including the changeable type tool, color profiling, and the history palette. If that's not enough, Photoshop for the Web, 2nd Edition also covers Adobe's ImageReady 2.0 Web graphics production software, now part of the Photoshop 5.5 package, and includes 64 pages of color inserts. You'll find information on ImageReady 2.0's image slicing, animation, and JavaScript rollover capabilities. Topics include: - Using 5.5's powerful Save For Web feature
- Automatically creating an interactive web photo gallery with 5.5
- Image manipulation and processing with 5's history brush
- Working with browser-safe colors to create stunning images regardless of platform or hardware
- Using Photoshop 5's contact sheet feature to organize digital photographs
- Quickly building Web backgrounds, buttons, and graphical type
- Creating JavaScript rollovers with ImageReady 2.0
- Streamlining Web production with Photoshop 5's changeable type tool
- Using Photoshop 5.5's new color decontamination features
- Using Photoshop as a Web layout tool
- Customizing Photoshop for Web production, including 5's color profiling
- Improving photos taken with a digital camera
- Controlling anti-aliasing with custom brushes
- Getting rid of the dreaded halo syndrome
- Optimizing images for JPEG compression
- Coding layout information in a Photoshop layer
- Changing Photoshop's matte color to match your Web page color
- Importing vector graphics into Photoshop
- Straightening scans with Photoshop 5's ruler tool
- Working with browser-safe colors to create stunning images regardless of platform or hardware
- Integrating PS and ImageReady to create the most efficient web production environment
In its first edition, "Photoshop for the Web" has received praise from press and readers alike: * The Canada Computer Paper picked it as one of the 10 best computer books of 1998. * Hewlett Packard's E-Business Web site called it "one of the most useful Photoshop books I've ever picked up." * And My Mac magazine said, "Aaland knows Photoshop inside out and how to maximize it for Web creation." Readers were even more effusive: * "This is the first book that gives me both ready-to-use recipes and enough information to experiment with and learn my own solutions. Highly recommended!" * "Aaland has provided an excellent and detailed analysis of using Photoshop to produce web pages ... a must-read book!" * "Within minutes of perusing Aaland's book, I found exactly 4 new tricks that I immediately applied to improve my web site." * "This book now rests on my most hallowed piece of real estate - on my desk next to my mouse." Photoshop for the Web, Second Edition shows you how to use the latest version of Photoshop to create Web graphics that look great and download blazingly fast. |
- Title:
- Photoshop for the Web, 2nd Edition
- By:
- Mikkel Aaland
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
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- Print:
- November 1999
- Pages:
- 244
- Print ISBN:
- 978-1-56592-641-7
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Mikkel Aaland Mikkel Aaland is a photographer, writer, Web producer, and the author of six books, including Sweat (1978), County Fair Portraits (1981), Digital Photography (1992), Still Images in Multimedia (1996), Photoshop for the Web (1998), and The Sword of Heaven (not yet published). He has contributed both text and/or photography to Wired, Digital Creativity, Pre, American Photo, Newsweek, Graphis, Publish, and MacWeek, as well as several European publications. His photography has been exhibited in major institutions around the world, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the former Lenin Museum in Prague. He is the recipient of the National Art Directors award for photography. Aaland is also the co-founder of Tor Productions, a multimedia company founded in 1989 and based in San Francisco specializing in the use of the still image in new media. He has lectured and taught on that subject at Stanford University, Drexel University, and University of California at Berkeley, as well as at computer graphics conferences around the country. View Mikkel Aaland's full profile page. |
Colophon Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal on the cover of Photoshop for the Web, Second Edition is an Amazon parrot, also known as a blunt-tailed parrot. There are over 320 species of parrots, all of them easily distinguishable from other species of birds because of their large, hooked bills and their feet, on which the first and fourth toes are reversed, creating a pincer that aids in climbing trees. Most parrots also use their beaks to help in climbing. There are 26 species and 52 subspecies of blunt-tailed parrots. These birds are mostly green, with bright coloring on their heads, wings, or elsewhere. The names of the subspecies tend to be descriptive: blue-fronted parrot, yellow-headed parrot, orange-winged amazon parrot. As their natural habitat is thickly grown forests, blunt-tailed parrots are excellent climbers, but awkward at flying and walking. In captivity, they often stop flying altogether. Parrots were among the first domesticated animals. A helmsman of Alexander the Great was the first to bring live parrots to Europe. One reason for their popularity as pets is their ability to mimic human speech. Parrots have never been observed displaying this ability in the wild. They are naturally intelligent and gregarious, and it is believed that when they are kept in solitary cages they learn to mimic sounds as a way of entertaining themselves. Legend has it that Christopher Columbus saw a flock of parrots in the air and they prompted him to change his course, thus discovering America. Melanie Wang was the production editor and copyeditor for Photoshop for the Web, Second Edition. Colleen Gorman was the proofreader. Jeff Holcomb and Nicole Arigo provided quality control. Brenda Miller wrote the index. Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Kathleen Wilson produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 3.32 using Adobe's Gill Sans Condensed and ITC Garamond fonts. Alicia Cech designed the color insert. Alicia Cech designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. Mike Sierra implemented the design in FrameMaker 5.5. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Gill Sans. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Rhon Porter using Macromedia FreeHand 8 and Adobe Photoshop 5. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary. Whenever possible, our books use RepKover, a durable and flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover's limit, perfect binding is used. |
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