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5 Responses to “The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques”

1. Lady Lana
   December 11th, 2009 at 11:12 pm

   Was long time thinking of buying one more nice Photoshop book. But this one is absolutely useless.
   “101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques” is not correct name for this book. I would say: “how to use Photoshop for starters”.

   About author: “Corrie Haffly has been using Photoshop to create web graphics since building her first web page in 1998″
   That’s exactly time from wich i use Photoshop and at that time we waited for 5-th version of programm. Very strange book for person who works so long with Photoshop.

   Whole book is a bit information from “help” and other you can find out yourself for some hours just checking what every button means.
   Author very much likes such layer styles as “bevel and embross”, but for person who used and uses photoshop nowdays should know that people already not exited about “candies” and are very much fond of really good design.
   A lot of screenshots that are about a half of book (1/3 as minimum) The book is really for people who are too lazy to read “help” and wanna it in printed version. But don’t think it cost 27 dollars.
   For people who have at least medium level in using Photoshop this book will be really useless. I wanted some book that will help me to find smth cool before i will pass my Adobe Sertification Exam, but when i choosed this book i just through out my money on wind.

   Don’t know what author trying to say with this book, but i think it’s not fair. I still have book from ’99-2000 year where is absolutely the same information. Everybody who knows photoshop in middle level and have a bit of time and wish can also read such book himself.

   1 star. Yes and it’s even too much, cause it’s only for color-printing of book, to what the author have no connection.

   Think good reviews (so more then two stars) to this book can give only people who don’t know nothing about Photoshop and have no wish to find out primitive things themselves of just friends of author.

   In this book you will find last two pages of website example that you can for free see in FrontPage. So pathetic!

   And as for author – i would strongly recommend her subscribe to “Advanced Photoshop” magazine

   As for people who wanna REALLY know Photoshop – “Photoshop CS2 Bible” from Wiley Publishing – much more information (every small detail about Photoshop) for the same money.
   Rating: 1 / 5

2. Patrick Mccoy Jr.
   December 12th, 2009 at 1:08 am

   This book is very basic. I was hoping to find some information on how to create interesting backgrounds and web graphic’s instead I found garbage. If you have used photoshop for any amount of time this book is generic. I was very disappointed.

   There are much better books that cover a much bigger range of photoshop tricks but I wasn’t looking for tricks I was looking for a detailed book on designing things like web 2. 0 buttons and backgrounds. If your looking for something like that turn around.
   Rating: 1 / 5

3. Robert Schreiber
   December 12th, 2009 at 3:55 am

   Some very good information in this book. Quite a bit has been very useful.
   Rating: 5 / 5

4. Wiliam D. Walton
   December 12th, 2009 at 5:09 am

   Being relatively new to Photoshop, this book has proved very helpful. Everything is briefly and easily laid out for rapid application of content.
   Rating: 5 / 5

5. Arnor Baldvinsson
   December 12th, 2009 at 5:46 am

   I bought this book today after considering one other books. I needed a book on simple graphics. I have worked with Photoshop for a while but only for photo processing and need to learn more about graphics. I’m a very graphically challenged software developer (my 6 year old draws much better than me;) so I need every bit of help I can get;) However I’m going to return this book tomorrow for the other book I was looking at, Scott Kelby’s “Adobe Photoshop CS Down & Dirty Tricks” as I found some omissions in the book that make it less useful than Scott’s book. For example the section on creating a product box is only about placing the image on the box, but not about how to create the box. I need tutorials that take me step by step through how to make what I want to make. This file may be in the online archive for it, but I feel the book should have demonstrated the steps to create it.

   I see some reviewers saying this book is garbage and for beginners. Well, it IS for beginners, which is why I bought it. But this book is definitely not garbage and there is a LOT of good stuff in it. It is aimed at a certain niche, which is people who want to start with something simple for their websites – pretty obvious from the title I’d think. If you are advanced user of PS for graphic work you will be disappointed, but IMO that’s self inflicted since there is nothing that indicates that this book is for advanced users. For example there is a very good section on creating seamless tiles, something I have looked for in online tutorials for quite a while without much luck.

   I give it 4 stars because it is lacking in some respects, but it does a good job overall. Just paging through it I have picked up quite a few ideas that I will be able to implement.

   If you are creating or maintaining your own website and want to create some nice looking graphics for it but you are not familiar with creating graphics in Photoshop, this would be a good book. If you are looking for advanced book or bleeding edge graphic designs then this is probably not the book you are looking for.
   Rating: 4 / 5