Photoshop 5.5 includes a full copy of Adobe's ImageReady 2, much to the delight of Web artists. To learn how to use this powerful Web-tools combo to its fullest potential, you need a teacher like Lynda Weinman, whose years of experience and pure enthusiasm for the medium are evident throughout Photoshop 5.5. and ImageReady 2 Hands-On Training. In it, Weinman demonstrates, using classroom-proven techniques from her training center, how and when to use Photoshop 5.5 and ImageReady 2 to create appealing and quick-loading Web graphics.

As with her other Hands-On Training books, Photoshop 5.5. and ImageReady 2 H.O.T. guides you through a series of exercises of increasing complexity, giving you hands-on, step-by-step experience in optimizing and previewing GIF and JPEG graphics, slicing Web images, using layers to create rollovers and Layer Effects to automate buttons, using ImageReady to "tween" animations, and much more. The book includes a CD-ROM with sample files for all of the exercises and QuickTime movies that illustrate some techniques. Even if you're an experienced artist, you'll be surprised at how much you'll learn about Photoshop from this pioneering Web author.