A gaming site, a portfolio site, an information site: Each requires a home page, but each of those home pages requires disparate elements and approaches. How to Wow: Photoshop for the Web walks you through the process of designing each, plus 15 other navigation, animation, and automation projects that show you how to add wow to your Web pages with Photoshop-created graphics. Just like your favorite cookbooks-the ones with short, clear-cut instructions and mouthwatering photos of the delectable concoctions-this book identifies challenges, provides simple recipes for overcoming them, and plugs in inspirational photos of the glorious results. Part 1 takes you through a range of navigation, animation, and automation projects (creating rollover navigation, building animated slide shows, producing a dynamic Flash banner, and more), while Part 2 walks you through the steps entailed in creating home pages for gaming, portfolio, and information sites. Each project explains how to create a lush graphic element, while sidebars and glossaries provide the low-down on important underlying principles. A CD includes the lesson files and image assets required to complete the book’s projects.

A gaming site, a portfolio site, an information site: Each requires a home page, but each of those home pages requires disparate elements and approaches. How to Wow: Photoshop for the Web walks you through the process of designing each, plus 15 other navigation, animation, and automation projects that show you how to add wow to your Web pages with Photoshop-created graphics. Just like your favorite cookbooks-the ones with short, clear-cut instructions and mouthwatering photos of the delectable concoctions-this book identifies challenges, provides simple recipes for overcoming them, and plugs in inspirational photos of the glorious results. Part 1 takes you through a range of navigation, animation, and automation projects (creating rollover navigation, building animated slide shows, producing a dynamic Flash banner, and more), while Part 2 walks you through the steps entailed in creating home pages for gaming, portfolio, and information sites. Each project explains how to create a lush graphic element, while sidebars and glossaries provide the low-down on important underlying principles. A CD includes the lesson files and image assets required to complete the book’s projects.

Prolific author and trainer Jan Kabilihas taught Photoshop and ImageReady to thousands of users. She is the author of five other step-by-step training books, as well as a regular columnist for Mac Design magazine. Graphic designer, author, and trainer Colin Smith is well-known in the design community for his stunning photorealistic illustrations composed entirely in Photoshop. He has written numerous books on Photoshop and is a regular columnist for Photoshop User magazine. n b

A gaming site, a portfolio site, an information site: Each requires a home page, but each of those home pages requires disparate elements and approaches. How to Wow: Photoshop for the Web walks you through the process of designing each, plus 15 other navigation, animation, and automation projects that show you how to add wow to your Web pages with Photoshop-created graphics. Just like your favorite cookbooks-the ones with short, clear-cut instructions and mouthwatering photos of the delectable concoctions-this book identifies challenges, provides simple recipes for overcoming them, and plugs in inspirational photos of the glorious results. Part 1 takes you through a range of navigation, animation, and automation projects (creating rollover navigation, building animated slide shows, producing a dynamic Flash banner, and more), while Part 2 walks you through the steps entailed in creating home pages for gaming, portfolio, and information sites. Each project explains how to create a lush graphic element, while sidebars and glossaries provide the low-down on important underlying principles. A CD includes the lesson files and image assets required to complete the book’s projects.

A gaming site, a portfolio site, an information site: Each requires a home page, but each of those home pages requires disparate elements and approaches. How to Wow: Photoshop for the Web walks you through the process of designing each, plus 15 other navigation, animation, and automation projects that show you how to add wow to your Web pages with Photoshop-created graphics. Just like your favorite cookbooks-the ones with short, clear-cut instructions and mouthwatering photos of the delectable concoctions-this book identifies challenges, provides simple recipes for overcoming them, and plugs in inspirational photos of the glorious results. Part 1 takes you through a range of navigation, animation, and automation projects (creating rollover navigation, building animated slide shows, producing a dynamic Flash banner, and more), while Part 2 walks you through the steps entailed in creating home pages for gaming, portfolio, and information sites. Each project explains how to create a lush graphic element, while sidebars and glossaries provide the low-down on important underlying principles. A CD includes the lesson files and image assets required to complete the book’s projects.

Missing files found on publisher website
http://www.peachpit.com/title/032130330X#info2



I stumbled around the publishers website after being annoyed at the missing Chapter 4 files, and I found the above link to download the files.



Overall it was a decent book, but as a newb I was looking for a whole lot more information on building from scratch.

Missing files found on publisher website
http://www.peachpit.com/title/032130330X#info2

I stumbled around the publishers website after being annoyed at the missing Chapter 4 files, and I found the above link to download the files.

Overall it was a decent book, but as a newb I was looking for a whole lot more information on building from scratch.

My Favorite Bookstore
The title says it all. I think that this website provides a service for all type of readers.



The book is an excellent book for graphic ideas. It is especially useful for beginners who suffer from "Designers Block". However, the title may give people the idea that this Book will show you step by step Photoshop techniques which it does not.

My Favorite Bookstore
The title says it all. I think that this website provides a service for all type of readers.

The book is an excellent book for graphic ideas. It is especially useful for beginners who suffer from "Designers Block". However, the title may give people the idea that this Book will show you step by step Photoshop techniques which it does not.

Good in every way except a few typos.
Pros: Great examples and information. Learned a lot in the week that it took to go through it. Will use it as a photoshop reference for a long time.

Cons: A few typos or missed steps that left me hanging and needed to play around with various options to get the desired result.

Wow Doesn’t Wow
Corrupt and missing project files for Chapter 4 got me off on a bad foot with this book. The integration of the book with its CD contents also strikes me as having been very poorly done, definitely inferior to what I have come to expect from the many Book/CD combos that I have purchased, especially for books dealing with Photoshop. On the plus side, the book is well illustrated and the textual instructions are reasonably clear. The projects tend to be cookie-cutter in their approach - which could be a plus or a minus depending on what you are looking for.

The one thing missing from this book that would have been of real benefit is one or more examples of creating a complete web page design from scratch.

Missing lessons on companion CD
Since this was the first book I’ve come across that offers extensive tutorials for how to use Photoshop for the web after searching a long time on the shelves of my local bookstore, I thought it was fabulous. However, when you get to the fourth chapter, the lesson files on the companion CD are corrupted. I’ve contacted the publisher to report the problem and apparantly alot of customers have complained. I was never provided with the missing files through customer service, and they have never managed to post downloadable files on the publisher’s website to correct the error, even though they are well informed about the problem. With 1/4 of the lesson files missing, I would want to make sure the lesson file problem was corrected before I paid for this book.

A complex subject treated very well
This book does a great job of covering a complex topic in a clear, concise, and beautifully illustrated way. It teaches by step-by-step example, and it distills what could be pages of background info into short "Insight" explanations that appear on the page to answer your questions exactly when they occur to you. "Tips" and "Cautions" help you work more efficiently and avoid pitfalls. In just 200 pages the book covers the use of Photoshop and ImageReady for designing and producing interactive navigation elements, animations, individual web pages, and entire web sites. The beautiful book design (by Jill Davis) helps make all of this information accessible. And all the pieces you need for the examples are provided on the CD-ROM that comes with the book. This book is a winner!

Not for a Novice!
The product description gave me the assumption that I would learn how to make web-layouts and buttons from scratch. So I ordered the book. When it arrived I sat on the couch with the book in my hands, thumbed through it and got dissapointed by the minute. It teaches you how to add objects to prefab stuff. That’s not the way I want to learn things. I want to learn how to make things from scratch.
When you know how to make lay-outs and so on in Photoshop, this book may give you additional info. When you are a Novice and want to learn how to make everything by your self this book is a waste of money.