NOTE: This book is now out of print, but there are used books available. (Chances are you’ll pay more for shipping than you will for the book. If you still use Paint Shop Pro as your computer art-creation program, the book is therefore now a bargain.)
Review Submitted by:Jodi Cornelius
Creating Your Own Web Graphics with Paint Shop Pro by Andrew Bryce Shafran and Dick Oliver is an excellent book for novice and expert Web designers alike. If you’ve ever wanted to create graphics, be they .jpg or .gif, and didn’t know where to start, this book is for you. If you want to learn how to create or make .gifs that are transparent, this book tells you how, step-by-step.
Shafran and Oliver tell you which graphics work best and how to use them on your Web pages. They give you the pros and cons between .jpgs and .gifs. Each graphic has its own properties and Creating Your Own Web Graphics with Paint Shop Pro goes into detail about each graphic type and how, when, and where to use it on your Web page.
Do you want to manipulate your graphics so they do what you want them to? Creating Your Own Web Graphics with Paint Shop Pro includes a CD-ROM that includes a shareware version of Paint Shop Pro Ver 4 (the version included in this copy of the book — later printings may include newer versions) and other tools you need to create exciting Web pages. These programs include GIFCon, Lview Pro, Map Edit, Map This!, and Web Hotspots. Plus it includes many Web graphic samples, with buttons, lines, and directional controls. You can manipulate these graphics or use them as a starting point for your own graphics.
Another chapter shows you how to scan and enhance photos, and also includes information on filters, deformations, and special effects.
One of the best chapters, though (in my opinion), is the chapter on GIF animations. It teaches you how to create animations and implement them in your pages. Animations are great provided you use them sparingly.
There are also a ton of URLs to find more graphics, and the newest versions of the software. If you have ever wanted to create your own graphics or work with existing graphics, this book is for you. This book is a “10″ in this reviewer’s opinion. I highly recommend this for any tech library!
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