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Summary: Very Good!
Review: I read several books about photoshop 7. This book is a gem. There are a lot of wonderful tips and techniques focus on web design-using photoshop. The instruction is clear and straight forward, the examples are easy to folow, no need to download anything. I like the way the author represented this subject- you learn a concept, see its illustration and then do practice. You are not just following step 1 to step 10; the important lesson is you understand WHY, HOW and WHEN to use a command.I think it is the most valuable thing. I read almost all books about this subject, this book is the best one in its category (as at 11/05/2002).
If you are new to photoshop, I recommend you to read this book also: Inside Photoshop 7. Another gem!
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Summary: pretty good introduction to web deis
Review: I'm interested in web design and Baumgardt's book provided me with some good introductory information on the subject. He starts out at the begining lwith subjects like HTML code and different types of web images like JPEG, GIF and PNG. He also covers topics like pop up windows, hyperlinks as well as adding music and sound to your website. Overall it's a pretty good introduction into the topic of web design.
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Summary: Why can't the author build a website?
Review: Ironically, the free access to the Mito Media Books website where you could download files is STILL 'under construction'. When you shell out this kind of money for a book you think the publisher could be organized enough to have the site up and running with the promised files. I could forgive the site for being ugly but just throw the downloadable files on your ugly site please. Even with a few interesting tid-bit of info, I would steer clear in the future and never recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Sharp, Well-Done Web Design Text
Review: So you know HTML, script programming, and maybe databases, too. Now you're interested in taking your web sites to the next level, snazzing them up with a bit more visual a presentation, but you don't know where to start. Everyone talks about Photoshop, but you can't tell up from down inside it and have yet to make a graphic that looks like it wasn't drawn in crayon by a three-year-old. Enter Adobe Press' book on web design. For it's size (about an inch thick) it may seem pricey, the interior reveals glossy, full-color, full-bleed pages with examples on everything from basic web design and layout to the specifics of creating buttons with rollover states, textured sidebars, and more. Rather than reading it through, msot readers will find themselves skimming to the points that are their weakest for tips and instructions. At times I wish the book were a bit more detailed on some of its steps, but overall most web designers lacking in graphic design skills will find the book an invaluable first step toward creating web graphics and sites that work visually.
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Summary: Sharp, Well-Done Web Design Text
Review: So you know HTML, script programming, and maybe databases, too. Now you're interested in taking your web sites to the next level, snazzing them up with a bit more visual a presentation, but you don't know where to start. Everyone talks about Photoshop, but you can't tell up from down inside it and have yet to make a graphic that looks like it wasn't drawn in crayon by a three-year-old. Enter Adobe Press' book on web design. For it's size (about an inch thick) it may seem pricey, the interior reveals glossy, full-color, full-bleed pages with examples on everything from basic web design and layout to the specifics of creating buttons with rollover states, textured sidebars, and more. Rather than reading it through, msot readers will find themselves skimming to the points that are their weakest for tips and instructions. At times I wish the book were a bit more detailed on some of its steps, but overall most web designers lacking in graphic design skills will find the book an invaluable first step toward creating web graphics and sites that work visually.
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Summary: Beautifully done
Review: The artistic presentation of the book made it a pleasure to read and learn. The colorful and artsy design is enhanced by the down to earth real world instruction that told me what to do and how to do it. Good one.
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Summary: Excellent graphics
Review: The graphics in this book are great! Text is easy to understand. Great beginners book!
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Summary: Michael Baumgardt's book Adobe Photoshop 7 Web Design
Review: This book is awesome. When I first opened Michael Baumgardt's book on ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 7 WEB DESIGN with GoLive 6 I couln't believe how much information was crammed into this book. Baumgardt has taken the concepts of web design to a whole new level. From his book I have learned how to make beautiful Web site designs while also keeping all my files optimized. His book goes into depth on the complicated aspects of Web design such as slicing and using tables and it has helped me tremendously. It is well worth the investment of buying it. This is my latest #1 book. I will use it until it falls apart. It sure beats paying thousands for designer courses. I put him right up there with Lynda Weinman's, Greg Simsic and Ben Willmore's books. Baumgardt has a way of incorporating the needs of Corporate Management into art. Which is very hard to do in our traditional corporate world.
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Summary: poorly done
Review: This type of book is invariably rushed to print to coincide with the release of new software versions. This book is no exception, very poorly organized with no cohesive thread from beginning to end. This is supposed to be book on using photoshop 7 and go-live 6 together to create web pages, yet there are 20 pages on doing just that and dozens of pages of pretty color wheels and charts meant to fill up space.
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