The Photoshop Anthology

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 & shortcutsBasic Skills: Transparencies, rounded corners, blending images, matching colors and moreButtons: Creating buttons and tabs in various shapes and form factors Backgrounds: Making various gradient and textured backgroundsCreating text effects, texturing and shadowing text, wrapping text around a curve, and moreAdjusting Images: Removing blue tints, darkening and lightening images, fixing red-eye, removing dark shadows, sharpening images and moreManipulating Images: Creating fish-eye effects, removing imperfections, making product shots for ecommerce and moreCreating Web Interfaces: Best practice & time saving ideas including how-tos on slicing images, creating rollovers, and moreAdvanced: Generating thumbnails, animated GIFs, bulk watermarking, sharing Photoshop Actions and moreAdditionally, 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.