Jan Kabili and Colin Smith wrote the How to Wow Photoshop CS2 For the Web book, a PeachPit Press edition. The book contains advice on how to use Photoshop CS2 for Web projects, including buttons, navigation bars, and complete interfaces. With Photoshop CS2, a lot of Web functionality has been moved from ImageReady to Photoshop. The book covers this as well.

How to Wow Photoshop CS2 For the Web contains step by step projects. It’s not terribly suited as a reference book, but then again, if you want to create graphics in Photoshop for use on the web, you’ll probably need an explanation of how to do it. The book contains a full explanation of how to work with Smart Objects, Photoshop’s newest and most powerful feature for this sort of task.

How to Wow Photoshop CS2 For the Web builds further on its previous version by reiterating the existing examples, but luckily the book also has some nifty new sample projects included on the CD-rom that comes with the book.

Some projects still require you to use ImageReady, but most of them are now done in Photoshop CS2 directly. For example, there’s a project dealing with a completely animated scene, using the animation frames that are now part of Photoshop. The book also deals with animating masks and layer styles. Much attention goes to automating the whole process, covering droplets and conditional Actions, to name but two examples.

Some lesser known facts also surface in this book, such as the “Output Multiple HTML files” option to automate the creation of an entire site with rollover navigation and different inter-linked files.