Photoshop for the Web, Second Edition

Book review by Rick Stringer

Photoshop 5.5 may be the one tool that every web designer must have. Now there is a book that will help designers take Photoshop images to the next level. Photoshop for the Web, Second Edition, is a comprehensive look at Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and Adobe ImageReady 2.0.

Mikkel Aaland has written a book that is one of the most useful Photoshop books that I've seen. He has a flowing easy to follow style. The book is loaded with examples of how to improve images for use on the web. I'm no novice with Photoshop, but I was still able to learn many new things about Photoshop with this book. Mr. Aaland brings his photographic experience to this book well. I appreciate his examples and clear explanations of how and why he manipulates images. It is loaded with color and B&W examples.

Photoshop for the Web covers many topics:

• Using 5.5’s Save for Web feature
• Automatically creating an interactive web photo gallery
• Image manipulation and processing with the History Brush
• Working with Browser-safe colors
• Creating backgrounds
• Improving photos taken with a digital camera
• Optimizing JPEG images
• Integrating Photoshop and ImageReady
• and much more.

It would take many pages to list all of the useful tips that are in this book. Mikkel Aaland has written a winner here. I'll give it five cherries! Now I'm going to go back and practice all of the new tricks that I've learned for Photoshop.

Photoshop For The Web, Second Edition
By Mikkel Aaland
2nd Edition November 1999 (US)
1-56592-641-2, 230 pages, $29.95 (US$)
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