PhotoImpact Solutions: PhotoImpact Version 6

The first full-color PhotoImpact book to be published in English, this book has something for every user. Advice, tips, and tutorials for beginning, intermediate, or advanced users of PhotoImpact 6.0 are provided in this guide to designing high-quality Web graphics, exciting animations, JavaScript rollovers, and striking images using powerful special effects tools. Basic concepts are explained, including the many uses of PhotoImpact for presentations, Web development from scratch, creating animations, managing and sharing images. Intermediate users will gain new techniques for creating eye-catching graphics and interesting backgrounds and will learn how to use the tool options for unusual effects. Advanced users will benefit from techniques for advanced imaging for the Web, using the JavaScript Rollover Assistant, Image Optimizer, Image Map Assistant, Image Slicer, and more. Step-by-step demos allow users to apply the techniques they have learned, and through it all the author guides the reader through making even the most complex tools seem simple.

Jason Dunn has been using PhotoImpact for Web design and creative expression since version 3.0, and after abandoning PhotoShop 4.0 for Ulead products, he’s never looked back. He has beta-tested numerous Ulead products and is involved daily in the Usenet newsgroup devoted to Ulead products. As the owner of Kensai Design & Communications, he lends his skills to myriad projects in the writing and graphical genres.