Adobe Photoshop CS2 for the Web Hands-On Training [With CDROM]

by Lynda.com and Tanya Staples

Helps you learn Adobe copyright] Photoshop registered] CS2 for the Web with hands-on exercises and demo movies. This work provides hands-on exercises that teach you the techniques for designing Web... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321331710
• ISBN13: 9780321331717
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great PhotoShop book!

Photoshop CS2 is the pretty much standard in web graphic design and digital photograph editing now and is a great tool to know. The author assumes no prior knowledge on knowing Photoshop or any other graphic editing tool. So if you're a novice (like me) or have used other graphic editing tools in the past, this is a great book for you. The other thing that is great about this book is that each chapter includes video tutorials from [...] as well as exercises to work on that review each topic covered. Throughout each chapter there beautiful, color screenshots of what is covered as well. The book covers the basics first with an introduction to the interface (menus, palettes, toolbox), how to organize assets, color theory and manipulation, layers, type fonts and optimizing images. The rest of the book goes into useful topics that really can help you in web design such as creating web backgrounds, designing navigation, create transparent graphics, image slicing and creating rollovers. For someone like me who does not have a graphic design background at all and can barely draw stick figures, this really helped me understand PhotoShop and use it to create some nice looking graphics for my web sites that I create. If you have any type of design skills this book will really help you take your skills to the next level. A must buy!

Excellent resource

I had to purchase this book for a class I'm taking and the book is incredibly helpful. It has easy demonstrations to follow--which really help if you're a "hands on" learner, as I am. The book comes with a CD-ROM that has files you can use for the demonstrations as well as demo movies that you can watch. I also had no previous Photoshop experience and still had no problem. I highly recommend it!

Adobe Photoshop CS2 HOT

Absolutely the most informative book I've ever seen written on software education. Hands on Training plus the DVD movies leads you through each and every project. I can't praise it enough.

Photoshop beginners who want to design for the web.

This book, like must books from Lynda.com, is very easy to follow with lots of excellent screenshots and helpful supporting exercises. The content is well arranged and covers both ImageReady and Photoshop CS2. The focus is on web design so if you plan to use Photoshop for anything other than web design dont go for this book. If your focus is the web this title is perfect as it covers those features of Photoshop most relevant to the design of websites. One criticism is that the design methodology in some parts is a lttle dated. The embedding of too much page and link text in images reduces a web pages chances of good search engine rankings, hence it would be better to present methods supporting the use of text based navigation using CSS, but this is my only criticism. I find that just about anything from Lynda.com is excellent as a learning resource.

Excellent Book

I've read the first nine chapters, and I'm really enjoying this book. It covers a lot of the new features in version CS2, such as being able to see an example of a font in the list of fonts, layer comps (snapshots of layer configurations), and smart objects. The book's focus is the web, and that's what I do all day. There are a few typos, but the books is so thorough that its extremely easy to spot them (ignore them). This book actually has less typos than most of the technical books I read. The videos on the CD are great and supplement the material nicely. I'm very impressed with this book. I don't read many from cover to cover, but this one is worth it.