The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques

by Haffly, Corrie

• ISBN13: 9780975841921
• ISBN10: 0975841920
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-01
• Publisher: Sitepoint Pty Ltd

Summary

The Photoshop Anthology is full-colour, question-and- answer book for Web Designers who want to use Photoshop to create better looking web graphics more effectively. The book covers: Photoshop interface tricks and shortcuts; Basic Skills; Buttons; Backgrounds; Creating text effects; Adjusting and manipulating images; Creating Web Interfaces; Advanced techniques and more. The Photoshop Anthology provides readers with the building blocks and techniques that will help Web Designers get the most out of this valuable tool, by showing them the steps to follow, as well as the concepts behind each of the 101 solutions. Author Corrie Haffly has been using Photoshop to create web graphics since 1998.

Author Biography

Corrie Haffly is a freelance web designer in Davis, California

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Getting Started with Photoshop	p. 1
The Photoshop Workspace	p. 2
Working in Photoshop	p. 5
Photoshop Layers	p. 9
Photoshop Toolbox	p. 12
Summary	p. 26
Basic Skills	p. 27
Placing a Graphic in your File	p. 28
Resizing a Document	p. 32
Resizing a Layer or Selection	p. 32
Rotating a Layer or Selection	p. 33
Using Drawing Tools to Create Lines	p. 34
Perfect Squares and Circles	p. 35
Straightening the Edges of a Rounded Rectangle	p. 35
Curved Design Elements	p. 37
Reusing Vector Shapes	p. 40
Sampling Colors from Image Files	p. 41
Finding the Hexadecimal Code for a Color	p. 42
Adjusting Layer Transparency	p. 43
Fading an Image into the Background	p. 43
Blending Two Images Together	p. 46
Rounding the Corners of a Photo	p. 47
Masking Multiple Layers with the Same Shape	p. 47
Making a Dotted Coupon Box	p. 51
Applying a Drop Shadow	p. 53
Images with Transparent Backgrounds	p. 53
Summary	p. 55
Creating Buttons	p. 56
Making a Simple, Flat Button	p. 57
Adding an Outline to a Button	p. 57
Making a Smooth, Beveled Button	p. 58
Creating a Chiseled Button Effect	p. 59
Creating an Embedded Button Effect	p. 60
Making a Gradient Button	p. 61
Making a Round Push-button	p. 64
Making a Metallic Button with a Matte Finish	p. 65
Making a Shiny Metallic Button	p. 68
Making an Aqua Button	p. 70
Making a Transparent Aqua Button	p. 77
Making a Plastic Button	p. 80
Making a Glass Button	p. 83
Making a Pearl Button	p. 86
Making Angled Tab Buttons	p. 87
Making a Rounded Tab Button	p. 89
Making a File Folder Tab Button	p. 90
Summary	p. 91
Creating Backgrounds	p. 92
Making a Seamless Tiling Background	p. 93
Making a Striped Background	p. 99
Making a Pixel Background	p. 100
Making a Gradient Background	p. 102
Creating a Brushed Metal Background	p. 103
Creating a Wood-grain Background	p. 105
Making a Granite Background	p. 108
Making a Textured Stone Background	p. 109
Making a Textured Paper Background	p. 112
Making a Rice-paper Background	p. 113
Summary	p. 117
Working with Text	p. 118
Adding a Single Line of Text	p. 119
Word-wrapping Text	p. 119
Increasing the Space Between Lines of Text	p. 120
Increasing the Space Between Letters	p. 121
Word-wrapping Text inside a Shape	p. 122
Warping Text	p. 123
Wrapping Text around a Curved Object	p. 124
Making Small Text More Readable	p. 125
Making Text follow a Path	p. 126
Adding an Outline	p. 128
Making Text Glow	p. 128
Making Glassy Text	p. 128
Creating Chiseled or Engraved Text	p. 130
Giving Text a Stamp Effect	p. 130
Giving Text a Motion Effect	p. 134
Adding a Shadow to Text	p. 135
Adding a Pattern to Text	p. 136
Adding a Gradient to Text	p. 136
Changing the Shape of Letters	p. 137
Summary	p. 139
Adjusting Images	p. 140
Making Whites Whiter	p. 141
Adding Tone Adjustments and Contrast	p. 144
Making Colors More Vivid	p. 147
Removing Color Tints from Photos	p. 149
Darkening Areas on an Image	p. 152
Lightening Areas on an Image	p. 155
Fixing the Red-eye Effect	p. 157
Converting Photographs to Black-and-white Images	p. 158
Making Sepia Images	p. 161
Matching Lighting and Colors between Images	p. 162
Combining Two Different Images	p. 165
Getting Rid of Dust and Scratch Marks	p. 166
Smoothing Grainy or Noisy Images	p. 170
Sharpening Images	p. 172
Adjusting Dark Shadows and Bright Highlights	p. 174
Summary	p. 175
Manipulating Images	p. 176
Adding Scanlines to an Image	p. 177
Creating a Magnifying Glass Effect	p. 179
Making the Foreground of a Photo Stand Out	p. 193
Creating a Polaroid Photo Effect	p. 196
Isolating an Object from an Image	p. 198
Saving an Object on a Transparent Background for a Flash Movie	p. 204
Creating a Reflection for an Image	p. 204
Creating an Image Thumbnail	p. 207
Putting a Picture onto a Product Box	p. 208
Placing a Picture onto a Curved Surface	p. 214
Making Product Photos for an Ecommerce Site	p. 216
Removing Distracting Elements from an Image	p. 220
Removing Blemishes from a Portrait	p. 222
Merging Partial Scans into a Single Image	p. 223
Coloring a Grayscale Image	p. 226
Summary	p. 227
Designing a Web Site	p. 228
Designing a Web Site using Photoshop	p. 229
Experimenting with Different Layouts	p. 234
Creating Web-Optimized Images from a Photoshop Site Mockup	p. 236
Filling an Area with a Pattern	p. 243
Adding a Shadow Effect to the Content Area	p. 245
Placing a Person or an Object onto a Background	p. 248
Making Graphics for CSS Rollover Buttons	p. 250
Summary	p. 251
Advanced Photoshop Techniques	p. 252
Creating Thumbnails for Multiple Images	p. 253
Saving Settings for a Batch Command	p. 256
Pausing an Action to make Customizations	p. 257
Watermarking Multiple Photos	p. 258
Saving Photoshop Actions	p. 259
Saving Layer Style Sets	p. 261
Creating a Web Photo Gallery	p. 261
Saving Multiple Comps for Presentation	p. 263
Creating an Animated GIF	p. 266
Summary	p. 272
Index	p. 273
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