Photoshop CS6 Unlocked 2nd Edition

Photoshop CS6 Unlocked 2nd Edition 101 Tips, Tricks, and Techniques By Corrie Haffly

Photoshop CS6 Unlocked is a full-color question-and-answer book for web designers who want to use Photoshop to create better looking websites.

Completely updated for Photoshop CS6, this comprehensive 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 techniques: Generating thumbnails, animated GIFs, bulk watermarking, sharing Photoshop Actions, and more

Corrie Haffly

Corrie Haffly graduated from U.C. Davis with a degree in mathematics but found web design to be much more interesting. She created her first simple HTML page in 1998, then began working for Advantrics LLC in 2000. While there, she brought their PixelMill and John Galt’s Templates brands to the top of the web site template market, handled customer support, and wrote volumes of tutorials. Corrie left full-time employment in 2004 and now enjoys working at home. She and her husband live in Davis.

Table of Contents Photoshop CS6 Unlocked 2nd Edition

1.  Getting Started with Photoshop
2.  Basic Skills
3.  Creating Buttons
4.  Creating Backgrounds
5. Working with Text
6. Adjusting Images
7. Manipulating Images
8. Designing a Website
9. Advanced Photoshop Techniques

UseFul Review

The first thing to make clear is that this is not a general book about Photoshop, it is a book for web designers who want to use Photoshop for web design work. The first two chapters do provide a basic introduction to Photpshop for those who haven’t used it before (while assuming that they have managed to install it successfully first) but the rest of the book treats photoshop as a tool for achieving specific results to aid with web design.
The main part of the book has one chapter for each of the things that a web designer needs to be able to do with graphics and demonstrates how to achieve a variety of variations of those particular effects using Photoshop. There are chapters on creating buttons, creating backgrounds, working with text (for where you need text in an image or want to use an image substitution to ensure that the text appears a certain way)and two chapters on adjusting and manipulating images so as to get the appearance you want in the most suitable web format.
The last two chapters are perhaps the most interesting from a web design viewpoint with a chapter on how Photoshop can be used to assist you in designing a web site by taking the rough wireframe design that you already have worked out on paper and producing a properly proportioned version to show the client. The last chapter deals with a variety of advanced web specific graphics techniques including thumbnail generation, watermarking and animation.
Throughout the book the emphasis is on web design with Photoshop just being the means to achieve the particular result. This means that a lot of the information in the book may also be of some use to web designers using a different graphics program as the book explains how to achieve certain results that may in many cases also be able to be duplicated in other graphics software (although the options themselves may be arranged differently).
Overall this is a useful book for any web designer to own.

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