Many claim to be able to teach you how to master Photoshop, so why should you trust this eBook to explain techniques any better than others? Here is why: because the book was written by someone just like you. Have you reached a dead end and feel like a massive barrier stands between your creativity and the screen? Thomas Giannattasio has been there and knows how to help. He has put together an intuitive guide to color management, as well as detailed instructions on how to get the...

Like most elements (such as typography, color, layout and content), photography is a crucial component on interfaces and for websites. This is one of the reasons why new tools are created by heavy users of Photoshop. This eBook "Mastering Photoshop, Vol.3" offers hints for recent techniques, such as using brush tools, anti-aliasing typography, layer and grid settings, unveiling masks and perfecting pixels. TABLE OF CONTENTS - Brushing Up On Photoshop's Brus...

As the technology becomes more advanced, all of us seek for time-saving tips and guidelines to make our work much more effective and productive. The eBook "Mastering Photoshop for Web Design Vol. 2" (eBook #8) contains 11 articles that cover useful and partly unknown Photoshop techniques and tricks from experts in the field. The articles discuss retouching, cloning, compositing, obscure Photoshop timesavers and designing for iPhone. The articles have been published on Smashing M...

Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole-a subset you can use to create truly extensible and efficient code.Considered the JavaScript expert by many people in the developm...

Want your own website or to learn how to blog? How does a free website builder with no monthly cost sound? You can do this; it’s easy for anyone to create a website and begin blogging with hosts like Wordpress and Blogger--even if you don’t know anything about web design.There's no need to learn HTML coding because it’s simple with WYSIWYG editing (what you see is what you get). This book is written in terms anyone can understand from the computer beginner to advanced users who will...

In Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook, you will learn, through step-by-step instructions and exercises, various sketching methods that will let you express your design ideas about user experiences across time. Collectively, these methods will be your sketching repertoire: a toolkit where you can choose the method most appropriate for developing your ideas, which will help you cultivate a culture of experience-based design and critique in your workplace.Feat...

User Experience (UX) can be strongly influenced by behavioral factors such as emotions, beliefs, preferences and even cultural backgrounds. Being aware of this, Web designers keep developing strategies to improve the overall UX with the help of storytelling, tools for problem solving, relationship engineering and costumer service improvement. This Smashing eBook "User Experience Design" (eBook #15) provides you with insights on how to improve your website based on the most impor...

Designing and developing e-commerce websites is a puzzle with thousands of pieces. Not only are the layout and structure of your Web store important, but you also have to keep the user experience and conversion rates in mind. These are what, in the end, really convince your client’s customers to click that shiny “Buy now” button. In this eBook (eBook #5) you’ll be studying the universal principles for successful e-commerce websites, which include improving your check-out process ...

Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. Mobile Design and Development fills that void with practical guidelines, standards, techniques, and best practices for building mobile products from start to finish. With this book, you'll learn basic design and development principles for all mobile devices and platforms. You'll also explore the more advanced capabiliti...

Testing usability is vital to creating a successful website — even more so if it's an e-commerce website, a complex app or any other complicated project. Unlike interviews and focus groups, a well-designed user test measures actual performance. This eBook (eBook #21) provides a guide to A/B testing, multivariate testing, tips for increasing conversion rates and a review of testing methods and tools. TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Ultimate Guide to A/B Testing - Multivariate ...

Getting the Hang of Web Typography is dedicated to web workers that are dealing with typography in their daily lives, but have no special training for this independent craft. This eBook (eBook #6)gives you the necessary background on macro- and microtypography, it helps you to choose suitable fonts and use modern techniques such as Web font embedding. It's a valuable book that helps you to create rich, sophisticated Web sites with beautiful and elegant Web typography. The implica...

Typography is a very powerful design element. Whenever we have a typographic system in place, we can use it to structure content, communicate ideas and even enhance meaning. However, employing it in a way that masters that delicate balance between being unobtrusive (catering for a pleasant reading experience) and engaging enough (keeping the reader’s interest on a page) can be quite a challenge.With the help of this eBook, you can learn how to train and sharpen your eyes to recogni...