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Title: Interface Design With Photoshop by J. Scott Hamlin, Scott Hamlin ISBN: 1-56205-668-9 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (8 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Upon researching...
Comment: Yes, it's me again. I am writing to a response to both the author and my own last review. 10 second review? Yes it was. My first review was based upon what I was looking for, and this book was not it. My first mistake was to not notice that it was published in 1996. I saw Photoshop interface, read all the great reviews and jumped before looking. Mr. Hamlin's techniques are geared toward Photoshop 3.04 users. Today, I'm using Photoshop 5.0 and will soon be in 5.5! Most of the techniques covered in this book use Eye Candy and now can be done within Photoshop's filters that come with the program.

I am by no means a book critique and I by NO MEANS, want to discredit the author. I was truely disappointed when I received the book, looking forward to enhance my knowledge on creating interfaces solely with Photoshop. The only mention in Amazon's book write up is that it's for Photoshop user's, not Photoshop 3.0 user's! This book would be great for new user's who can't afford to upgrade or their computer simply couldn't handle it. When I said first and second generation this was true, but in 1996 this was probably top of line stuff! Now, it just simply isn't so. So to Photoshop 3 and 4 user's this book get's a 4 star. To those in 5.0 my first review stands at 1 star simply becuase I believe you will be disappointed.

I am an avid Photoshop user and a day does not pass that I don't open it up to do something. I promote anything Photoshop related, so to my first response; do I think some of the textures are ugly? Yes, but I thought that of all textures back in the day and I also happen to hate embossed buttons and chrome also. If you look at Mr. Hamlin's sketches before he fills them in with color they are magnificent. He is an excellent artist and I thought his sketches were the best part of the book!

In closing my final note is this. I'm not telling anybody to buy this book or not buy this book. I simply want to say this book was not written for Photoshop 5.0 user's. Just be aware of this!

D. Michael Ramirez

First Step Creations

Rating: 1
Summary: Don't waste your time or money!
Comment: Within 10 seconds of opening this book I realized that I should have first looked at it in the bookstore before buying it online.

Most of the designs are just aweful looking with a first and second generational web site approach. I was very much looking forward to using Photoshop for advanced interfaces but this is not the book.

If you want to create embossed buttons and ugly textures then by all means buy it! For those people actually looking to design an interface keep on looking.

Rating: 4
Summary: a good introduction to interface design
Comment: i found this book to be an ideal introduction to the special considerations that make interface design an art unto itself. Lots of handy tips and examples with easy to follow step by step instructions on different methods and techniques. On the downside, you really need to have to have the eye candy plug-in.