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Title: Photoshop 6 ImageReady 3 Hands-On Training (With CD-ROM) by Lynda Weinman, Jan Kabili ISBN: 0-201-72796-X Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 11 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Deep ImageReady
Comment: The most comprehensive tutorial you're likely to find covering PhotoShop's "little web sister", leave it to Lynda.com to come up with THE ImageReady book. Don't let the title mislead you, especially if you're already a long-time P-Shop veteran. The information contained in these pages, accompanied by outstanding tutorials and full color illustrations, is NOT a rehash of stuff you already know; it is a means of making the transition from traditional publishing to creating full-blown web pages with minimal compromise.
Even seasoned users of Adobe's cornerstone image editing tool may find some new and useful tips in streamlining graphics production - I certainly did. Instructor Jan Kabili makes the journey such a pleasure (not to mention a productive use of time), one could actually become converted to working in lo-res art! As in other titles by this publisher, the exercises are straighforward, economical and plentiful - the reader is presented with a great deal of material in relatively short order, yet in a way that is not at all difficult to retain practical information.
Granted, Adobe ImageReady is not a web management tool ..... that's Macromedia Dreamweaver's job, and though it may not integrate with that program as closely as, say, Fireworks, it contains no shortage of tools for fully preparing, creating, optimizing and animating raster images for web use. This entry in the highly-praised Hands-On-Training series is as good an introduction as you'll find on making full use of ImageReady in a short time, and a genuinely enjoyable one at that.
Acquire, read, and get thyself web-ready.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for beginners - this is worth every penny
Comment: I researched several books on Photoshop 6 and had trouble finding one that was not either a dull reference book or was geared towards experienced Photoshop users. When I ordered this book, I knew nothing of the basics. Thanks to the many hands-on examples and the breakdown of (what I thought to be) complicated terms, I'm well on my way to being able to use both Imageready and Photoshop without paranoia. If you're just starting out, and have gotten frustrated with other manuals who seem to not take the term 'beginner' seriously, I highly recommend this book. I'm looking forward to using more of the lynda.com books in the future.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fuel Your Creativity
Comment: Because Lynda Weinman comes from the perspective of a real designer, I find that her books always provide fuel for the reader's creativity. While these books REALLY do teach, they also encourage the reader to experiment.
I am a fan of Adobe's Classroom In A Book series, but I did not find the Photoshop or Illustrator books to be geared toward the beginner. Exercises were often very layered and complex with pages of steps. The book didn't not always adequately explain the purpose of all the steps. The risk of presenting such long exercises is that if the learner makes a mistake and doesn't achieve the intended results of the book, the source of the mistake isn't always easy to trace.
In contrast, Kabili and Weinman provide short, simple exercises, adhering to the proven fact that learners absorb information in bit-sized chunks. The exercises in this book are paced so that the reader can take breaks and try what was just learned. Don't mistake this brevity for lack of information, however. The authors are very thorough and wise about choosing what's practical.
Best of all, there's lots of good advice. Photoshop is presented as a tool for web design, and the authors remind us about the Web's capabilities and limitations. We also get honest advice about small Photoshop annoyances (thankfully there are few!) and how to design around them.
I politely disagree that this book is "not focused." On the contrary, its purpose is obvious from Chapter One: how to set up Photoshop to work as a web design tool. We are taught how to deal with color and color settings and how to optimize graphics early on so that we can concentrate on more fun tasks.
I believe Lynda Weinman is a born teacher, as are all the co-authors with whom she associates. This is my third HOT book, and I use them when I need to absorb an application's features and capability quickly. I encourage you to try this book and see if it doesn't spark your creative fires.
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Title: Dreamweaver 4 Hands-On Training by Garo Green, Lynda Weinman ISBN: 0201741334 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Flash 5 Hands-on Training by Kymberlee Weil, Green. Garo, Lynda Weinman ISBN: 0201731347 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 29 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Macromedia Flash MX Hands-On-Training by Kymberlee Weil ISBN: 0321112725 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Hands-On Training by Garo Green, Abigail Rudner ISBN: 0321112717 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 08 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 6.0 Web Design by Michael Baumgardt ISBN: 0201721465 Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 05 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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