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 How to Use Microsoft FrontPage 2002              Inside Adobe Photoshop 6

While we do not suggest using a book as a substitute to attending a course, many of our course attendees ask us to recommend books they can use as reference guides after undertaking training.  In this issue, we look at two new books on FrontPage 2002 and Adobe Photoshop 6.0.

 How to Use Microsoft FrontPage 2002

 

How to Use Microsoft FrontPage 2002

 

Author:           Paul Heltzel
 Publisher:      SAMS
 ISBN              0672321408      

 

How to Use Microsoft FrontPage 2002 has been designed to make web publishing simple for beginners. The book helps beginners learn to use FrontPage 2002. The book has a number of tasks which all have  full-colour illustrations and instructions to each task being described. The illustrations provide additional support to make it easy for beginners to follow the step-by-step instructions.

Some of the topics covered:

  • changing the style of a paragraph,

  • changing the look of links,

  • inserting clip art,

  • inserting a search form,

  • choosing and modifying themes,

  • importing a scanned image,

  • adding text to image,

  • changing backgrounds

This book is not designed for the more experienced users but is a great start for the beginners who want to know how to get going in the world of web publishing .

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 Inside Adobe Photoshop 6

Inside Adobe Photoshop 6

 

Author:           Gary David Bouton et al
 Publisher:      New Riders
 ISBN              0789724251

Inside Adobe Photoshop 6 covers the tools, tricks and the many uses of Photoshop 6. The book provides detailed coverage of each Photoshop feature including:

  • palettes,

  • shape tools,
  • tool bars,
  • layers,
  • filters,
  • colour management,
  • optimising Photoshop,
  • image formats,
  • acquiring Photoshop images,

  • outputting your work

The book then progresses on to explore topics such as

  • selection tools,
  • layering images,
  • pen and path painting tools,
  • creating shapes,
  • custom shapes,
  • text effects,
  • improving images,
  • restoring photographs,
  • the clone stamp tool,
  • scanners,
  • 3D graphics,
  • filters,
  • typefaces,
  • type design,
  • web images.

A CD-ROM is also provided which includes examples from each chapter in the book, fonts, clip art and third-party software tools.

The book is well laid out with easy step-by-step instructions, with a large number of screen dumps and diagrams which proves useful to the beginner and the more advanced users.  It is also a very handy reference for those people interested in digital photography.

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