A noted Web designer shows readers how to use Adobe's suite of tools for professional Web design. Covering Photoshop, GoLive, and ImageReady, this new edition is fully updated to reflect the changes in GoLive 5 and Photoshop 6, and demonstrates how to best use these features as well as image compression, creating GIF animations, and more.

A noted Web designer shows readers how to use Adobe's suite of tools for professional Web design. Covering Photoshop, GoLive, and ImageReady, this new edition is fully updated to reflect the changes in GoLive 5 and Photoshop 6, and demonstrates how to best use these features as well as image compression, creating GIF animations, and more.

Just because a program is one-size-fits-all doesn't mean that a book about it has to be. Take the case ofAdobe Photoshop 7.0 Web Design: Even though the popular digital imaging program is geared toward designers of all types (graphics, print, Web), this book that covers it isn't. Instead, it's written just for you--the Web site designer who wants to get answers to Web-related Photoshop questions without wading through a lot of explanations that simply don't apply.Through clear, direct text and a gorgeous four-color layout, this volume both instructs and inspires-Qin the process delivering all of the information you need to produce better-organized, faster-loading Web sites. As you follow along with best-selling authorMichael Baumgardt, you'll learn how to create and optimize Web graphics, produce GIF animations, manage Web colors, and more. You'll also learn about all that's new in Photoshop 7: an enhanced Rollover palette to manage Web page rollovers, animations, and image maps more easily; Web output enhancements to easily apply transparency to Web page elements; and the new "selected" rollover state for creating more sophisticated Web site navigation bars without hand-coding--and these are just the tip of the iceberg. Whatever your level of experience, if you're ready to take on Web design with Photoshop 7, this is the book for you. '

This guide offers readers advice in using the toolbox of Adobe Web graphics tools in smart combinations for creative timesaving results. It contains two page spreads which allow the reader to access the information quickly.

With this book, users will learn to use Photoshop 6 and ImageReady 3.0 together with lessons developed by Lynda Weinman. It focuses on the newest tools and automation devices available as readers learn intermediate techniques for producing images especially for the Web.