Web Designer's Guide to Adobe Photoshop (Wordware ... (ISBN 1598220012)

Solid, but spartan:
This book is a solid introduction to using Photoshop in web design, but it's a bit spartan. The book primarily follows the creation of a (presumably) fictional law firm's website. Unfortunately, the book stays glued to the construction of this one site until the last couple of chapters when the author finally desides to send a couple more examples the reader's way. I personally found the majority (two out of the mere three) of the designs he used to be a bit messy. The law firm site, in particular, looked out of sorts. Cascading 3D images abound in that design (3D buttons on top of a 3D header, which also has a seperate 3D logo), causing it to look more like an amateur's attempt at being professional than an actual professionally designed site. The steel website example was a bit better, with the exception of the 'Forged In Steel' box. It just seemed a bit out of place compared to the rest of the design. While the book does describe how to transform your newly created Photoshop design into a webpage, it only describes the easiest, simplest way to do so. Those newbie coders looking to find a way to use Photoshop in conjunction with a CSS-based layout are out of luck. This book only describes how to put your new images into Dreamweaver in design mode, resulting in the page being automatically constructed entirely out of tables. No code (html or otherwise) wanted, or allowed, in this book, apparently.

integrate Photoshop skills with web pages:
Photoshop is the most common program for graphics design. But Web designers live in a different space. If you are one of the latter, then perhaps your graphics skill is minimal. You can remedy this with Tull's book. He provides a fairly thorough explanation of Photoshop. Granted, there are more comprehensive books on it. But he directs his text to Web designers. Showing how you can integrate Photoshop skills with web pages.