Join Web designer and professional animator, Steve Holmes, for a 3 hour journey into some of the lesser known, and incredibly useful, techniques for using Adobe® Photoshop®. You’ll learn some of the magical tricks and useful tips to get the most out of your Photoshop® software. Both novice and veteran users will discover time-saving shortcuts and special effects within Photoshop® that you never knew existed.Attain realistic photo-compositing with wonderful depth of field, motion blur, perspective, and shadowing options.
Learn the coolest techniques for the most realistic chrome, and beautifully diffused soft-edged shadows.
Get detailed look at alpha channels, pixel creation filter, techniques and lighting effects for brilliant background creation
Utilize fire and smoke techniques, as well as intricate layer blending.

While Adobe Photoshop is the standard application for editing images for print, its powerful features also make it useful for editing images placed on the Internet. Web Designer’s Guide to Adobe Photoshop goes beyond an explanation of creating and editing images by focusing on the next step in web development: placing images and graphics into working web pages. Whether your goal is to expand your professional skills or simply handle your local club’s website, this book will help you not only create web pages but also get them working properly on the World Wide Web.
Learn how to:
*Work with layers, layer styles, and patterns.
*Create shapes with selections.
*Combine and crop images.
*Create web buttons, headers, and backgrounds.
*Add content to a web page using Macromedia Dreamweaver.
*Design web pages of various styles.