Photoshop 5 Web Magic [With Contains Stock Photography, Demos, Templates...]

by Michael Ninness

This book contains 36 new and exciting techniques to spice up your Web pages. You'll learn how to create great buttons, edge effects, animations, textures for backgrounds and borders, as well as text... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562059130
• ISBN13: 9781562059132
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: New Riders Publishing
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Not bad...good for check back

this is the 2nd book I bought on photoshop (the 1st is the photoshop 3 wow!....alas later versions are not as good anymore). It teaches many techniques you will likely use for wb designing. It's good becauses it helps one to check back if he forgets certain steps or just plain lazy (like me). The Cd-ROM is nothing but tutorial images and useless product demos. The only annoying thing is the tons of missing/wrong steps, even wrong image shown beside the step, for newbies it can be disasterous as errors such as editing rgb channel instead of alpha channel appeared several times. Bottomline, it's good to get this book but watch out for the typo mistakes..

Interesting but flawed

I bought the book at a discount dealer for half the list price, and I believe I may have still overpaid for it. The major problem is that I haven't been able to get many of the examples to work. It seems there are either steps left out in the example such as 'filter edges' starting on p. 140, or else the writer has not proofed the book to prevent abundant errors. Some of the examples do work, but the ones that don't create much frustration. Perhaps a Photoshop expert could easily detect the errors, but intermediate users such as I can't. Another problem is the abundant use of commercial plugins rather than simply emphasing Photoshop 5 techniques. It would help if there was a web site correcting the book errors.

BUY THIS BOOK NOW!!!!!!!!!! ITS GOOD

Hi, this is a great book I am a small time web designer and I love this book its fun easy and streight to the point with good examples and photos but Iwould reccomend that you be very fumular with photoshop before buying this book because its a lil advanced in some places :-) nothing Icant handle i might add. well i just want to say man this is a realllly realllly great book and i really recommens it it teaches you onmouse over java script roll overs ect.... i must have :-) please if the author reads this i want him to know hes a great man. thanks youve helped me a lot and the book is worth every pennie. thank you Jason Clemons Owner of "JC TechWorks "

Trying to learn some web magic????

Hello my name is Johnathan Mark Smith from 1HOSTPLUS.COM and as a web designer I am always looking for cool ways to make new magic for the logos and web sites I have to make for clients. After reading this book I now know how to make alot more magic with photoshop then before. If you are looking to learn how to make magic with photoshop for the web then this is the book for you

Discover New Territory In Web Graphics Design!

     Michael Ninness has written Photoshop 5 Web Magic to offer Photoshop 5 users a number of great Web graphics design ideas to make any Website shine! There is no disputing that Photoshop is the "grand daddy" of professional graphics programs. Ninness demonstrates just how easy it is for users to take full advantage of this edition of the program to make some really spectacular Web images. Are you ready?      This book offers readers the inspiration and encouragement they need to create "killer" Web graphics, to discover new territory in Web graphics design, and to discover creative ways to use the features of this leading program. The CD that accompanies the book offers stock photography, sample images, animations, and files from the book, plug-ins, and some awesome software demos, including Photoshop 5!      Readers can read through the whole book from cover-to-cover or simply thumb through it to check out the cool special effects they are capable of producing. The creation and use of textures, buttons, special edge effects, and raised lettering are absolutely stunning! Highly recommended!