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Photoshop CS2 Tips, Trick and Hacks for the Web

by Alex Walker

As you may have already noticed either on the site (or at your local respectable book merchants) our first full-color book has just hit the shelves — Corrie Haffly’s The Photoshop Anthology.

We put our first grubby finger marks over a hard copy late last week and it’s pretty impressive — big (8′x10′) (8″x10″), glossy and colorful (6 color process on the cover!). If the majority of your Photoshop sweat ends up online, this may well be the best value CS2 book you’ll ever own.

Personally I currently own 3 Photoshop books (a WOW book, a CS2 Bible and an ancient Visual Quickstart Guide) and they’ve all been pretty useful during their time. However it would be fair to say they are all pretty broad in their coverage, meaning there are whole sections of each book that I ignored. In short, in most books ‘Photoshop for the Web’ is the title of a chapter– not the book.

Interestingly, before this book was released it was been easier to find one that focussed entirely on using LAB color in Photoshop, than it has been to find one that focussed on web development. Weird.

Anyway Corrie …

Thursday, September 21st, 2006 | Posted in Web Design | 6 Comments »

Sep 20, 2006 News Wire

by Kevin Yank

• DTrace Meets JavaScript
  DTrace is a slick and powerful profiling tool currently limited to the Solaris platform, but rumored to be coming to an operating system near you. This alpha provider hooks into Firefox’s JavaScript engine. Push past the intro and check out the examples.
  (tags: javascript firefox)
• Top 100 Network Security Tools
  An up-to-date list of the top 100 network security tools, as voted by the nmap-hackers security list.
  (tags: security software network)
• Python 2.5 Release
  A major new release of the Python language, 2.5 contains plenty of bug fixes, speed boosts, and even new language features.
  (tags: python)
• 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about PHP
  A few obvious items in this list, but a number of gems too. Even PHP experts should take a quick look—there might just be a valuable feature or two you didn’t know about!
  (tags: php)
• Threading in C#
  A free e-book that covers exactly what it says. A great introduction to a topic too-often ignored by ASP.NET developers.
  (tags: asp.net .net programming)
• Tip/Trick: Using IIS7 on Vista with VS 2005
  If you’re playing with Windows Vista RC1 as I am and …

Thursday, September 21st, 2006 | Posted in Industry Links | 3 Comments »