Astonishing Web Graphics with Kai's PowerTools and Plug-Ins
Category: Books,Computers & Technology,Networking & Cloud Computing
Astonishing Web Graphics with Kai's PowerTools and Plug-Ins Details
Amazon.com Review In this guide, photographer and computer graphics expert David Busch teaches aspiring designers how to create eye-catching Web images using filters. Throughout the book, Busch uses Photoshop 4 and 5 as his image editor. For filters, he uses Photoshop's built-in tools, Kai's Power Tools, Extensis, and other third-party plug-ins. (You can also use any other image editor that supports these filters, but it might be hard to adapt Photoshop instructions to, say, Corel Photo-Paint.) Busch first explains how filters work and what kinds of filters are available. Then, in the heart of the book, he challenges you with hands-on tasks in which you use filters to produce Web-page elements such as backgrounds, buttons, 3-D effects, rules, image maps, and text. Next, you learn how to optimize your graphics for the Web, taking size, format, and other issues into consideration. Finally, you design filters of your own and learn about using plug-ins to create painterly effects. Full-color sections with images from the book's projects, an effects gallery, and a glossary round out the book. The included CD-ROM has project files for working along with the book's exercises and demo versions of plug-ins from Alien Skin, Andromeda, and Extensis. --Kathleen Caster Read more About the Author A former commercial photographer and author of numerous articles on photographic topics for magazines like Petersen's PhotoGraphic, Professional Photographer, and The Rangefinder, David D. Busch is also a leading demystifyer of computer technology. The first to win top category honors twice from The Computer Press Association (for both Macintosh and PC-oriented books), David has written 56 books. Read more
Reviews