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The Photoshop Anthology is full-color, question-and-answer book for Web Designers who want to use Photoshop to build Websites and create better looking web graphics more effectively.
The book covers:
* Photoshop interface tricks & shortcuts * Basic Skills: Transparencies, rounded corners, blending images, matching colors and more * Buttons: Creating buttons and tabs in various shapes and form factors * Backgrounds: Making various gradient and textured backgrounds * Creating text effects, texturing and shadowing text, wrapping text around a curve, and more * Adjusting Images: Removing blue tints, darkening and lightening images, fixing red-eye, removing dark shadows, sharpening images and more * Manipulating Images: Creating fish-eye effects, removing imperfections, making product shots for ecommerce and more * Creating Web Interfaces: Best practice & time saving ideas including how-tos on slicing images, creating rollovers, and more * Advanced: Generating thumbnails, animated GIFs, bulk watermarking, sharing Photoshop Actions and more
Additionally, the book will walk you through the entire process of designing a Website in Photoshop - from using layers to keep organized to using the slice tool to create individual Website elements.
