Astonishing Web Graphics With Kai's Powertools And Plug-Ins | 
 enlarge | Author: David D. Busch
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 274
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.5 x 1
ISBN: 0121476154
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.6869
EAN: 9780121476151
ASIN: 0121476154
Publication Date: October 1998
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Amazon.com Review
In this guide, photographer and computer graphics expert David Busch teaches aspiring designers how to create eye-catching Web images using filters. Throughout the book, Busch uses Photoshop 4 and 5 as his image editor. For filters, he uses Photoshop's built-in tools, Kai's Power Tools, Extensis, and other third-party plug-ins. (You can also use any other image editor that supports these filters, but it might be hard to adapt Photoshop instructions to, say, Corel Photo-Paint.) Busch first explains how filters work and what kinds of filters are available. Then, in the heart of the book, he challenges you with hands-on tasks in which you use filters to produce Web-page elements such as backgrounds, buttons, 3-D effects, rules, image maps, and text. Next, you learn how to optimize your graphics for the Web, taking size, format, and other issues into consideration. Finally, you design filters of your own and learn about using plug-ins to create painterly effects. Full-color sections with images from the book's projects, an effects gallery, and a glossary round out the book. The included CD-ROM has project files for working along with the book's exercises and demo versions of plug-ins from Alien Skin, Andromeda, and Extensis. --Kathleen Caster
Product Description
Bring your Web pages to life with beveled buttons, eye-catching textures, and images that dance off a Web page in fiery flames! Create 3-D type with shadows, cut-outs, and perspective. Add a metallic sheen, or a neon glow! You don't need expensive 3D software to achieve these effects: the same magic can be conjured inside Photoshop or another image editor with the right plug-ins. Astonishing Web Graphics with Kai's PowerTools and Plug-ins is a rich treasure trove of tips and techniques for beginning to advanced Web builders who want to create impressive Web images from scratch. Let Internet World graphics columnist and Photoshop expert David D. Busch show you how to create astonishing 3D effects, glistening liquid droplets, high-tech chrome rules and frames, and dozens of great Web image techniques you can achieve with Kai's PowerTools and other leading plug-in effects. Other features include: -- A 32-page color insert with full-color images of the projects
-- A copy of the working files and every illustration in the book on the CD-ROM
-- Try-out versions of sensational plug-ins from Extensis, Alien Skin, and Andromeda
-- A complete glossary with definitions of all the key terms found in the book.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Well worth the money August 24, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've been a KPT user for a long time, and loved the way this book showed me new ways to use it. I was also pleased to find that the author covered many other plug-ins and filters. Most of the filters from other vendors do different things from Kai's PowerTools, so it's good to have coverage of other products. Many of the examples used Alien Skin's Eye Candy, and there was a whole chapter on Extensis's line. Ulead's filters are not widely known, but they were covered here. The many pages of color really helped me visualize how the effects would look. The writing was clear and easy to understand, and the step by step instructions simple to follow. I'll look for other books by this author.
 DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY..!!! August 18, 1999
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Kai Power tools is way over rated to begin with...try out eye candy This book had some good instruction but way over priced for such little gained, That you can learn by using anyway
 Clever book May 27, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Good techniques. The section on how to create a lightning-like effect was worth the price of the book alone.
Sorry, but nothing astonishing here May 20, 1999
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was hoping for a thorough treatment of Kai's tools but only got a very cursory discussion of basic web graphics design tools and techniques. Pass on this one.
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