Astonishing Web Graphics with Kai's PowerTools and Plug-Ins

Astonishing Web Graphics with Kai's PowerTools and Plug-Ins image
ISBN-10:

0121476154

ISBN-13:

9780121476151

Author(s): Busch, David D.
Released: Oct 21, 1998
Publisher: Academic Press
Format: Paperback, 274 pages
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Description:

Instant beveled buttons! Images that dance off a Web page in fiery flames! Astonishing 3D effects! Eye-catching fractal textures! Glistening liquid droplets! High-tech chrome rules and frames! Webmasters are always looking to make their sites stand out, and crave graphics effects like these but don't know how easily they can be achieved using products like Kai's PowerTools and other Photoshop-compatible plug-ins. This book focuses on creative ways to transform ordinary Web pages into triumphant prize-winners with inexpensive software add-ons and clever techniques. It demonstrates how to use the highly successful Kai's PowerTools graphics software for adding professional-looking graphics to a Web page through step-by-step examples. The author explores the use of filters and other plug-ins, and how they can be used to create Web images. Concise, focused, and complete, this book fills an important need by bypassing boring, basic tutorials in favor of sublimely useful how-to information. Comes with one CD-ROM and features 32 pages of high resolution color.



Key Features
* Teaches how to create 3D type with shadows, cut-outs, and perspective
* Teaches how to add a metallic sheen or a neon glow
* Make Web graphics out of images using KPT's enhanced filters, or advanced plug-ins like those from Andromeda, Alien Skin Software, Extensis, and others
* Learn how to create impressive Web images from scratch
* Includes step-by-step examples, many featured in a 32-page section in high resolution color
* CD-ROM includes all the images in the book, plus a wealth of buttons, rules, backgrounds, textures, and custom filters


























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