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Summary: Excellent digital cookbook
Review: Photoshop is the holy grail of image processing programs, but it can also be fairly difficult to master. This book doesn't necessarily demystify PShop, but it does provide some quick, easy-to-use techniques for making something more out of your digital images than just nice snapshots in a digital album.Learn how to improve images that are iffy, embellish them with vignettes, color changes or filter effects (watercolor, ink sketch and others)or composite them for wholly new images. None of these techniques are hard to follow, and all can be accomplished with a variety of image-editing programs, not just Photoshop. It is, in fact, geared more towards the lower-end Photoshop Elements than the full program. But the information is just as relevant, and though it often requires a bit of translation between program menus, this isn't a difficult thing to do. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to get involved in digital image-editing, digital art or just a slightly more hands-on approach to improving the summer vacation snaps.
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Summary: Useless information
Review: This book concentrates on nothing at all that I could find. Information on lighting, color and composition, angle, equipment are just rushed through, and leaves you holding the bag, so to speak. All the information that you NEED to know is left out, where information that anyone who has used a camera for more than a month already should know, is covered throughout the entire book, chapter after chapter. Useless book, unless you are an ABSOLUTE BEGINNER and have never seen a digital camera operated before, buy something else. Oh, and the included software is only good when you uninstall it.
I don't like getting ripped off, and after purchasing this book, I'll never buy anything who was associated with this obviously slapped together POS. And I don't think you can call "take the photos again if you don't like them" a technique. Which is mentioned in the book about 50 times... YIKES.
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Summary: 50 Fast and Bad Techniques
Review: This book doesn't give much explanations and for a reason: it looks like the author is not profficient in what he tries to teach. Some of his advices are dead wrong, for example converting color to b&w: his method gives far inferior results to proper techniques (there are more than one). The method he suggests is definitely the fastest - probably for this very reason almost every book or Web Tutorial (there are dozens of them) will tell you why you should avoid this method. I returned the book and won't recomend it to anyone, beginner or intermidiate. Check other books, like Scott Kelby's "Photoshop 6 Photo-Retouching Secrets" or Martin Evening's "Adobe Photoshop 6.0 for Photographers" (this one is for more advanced readers) and see for yourself.
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Summary: Simply the best
Review: This book is a wonderful step-by-step guide to using Photoshop Elements, althought it will work for other digital programmes. Everything happens just as the book says and it explains what is happening. For example, when adjusting the levels on the brightness contrast function, you are told what is happening and encouraged to play with the device to see the effects. A series of sidebars provide a little bit of additional information about the underlying processes. The book doesn't cover absolutely every Elements function but more than enough to do some excellenet work. Once these techniques are mastered, you will know enough to self-explore the rest.
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Summary: Great image editing book
Review: This is a great book to learn image-editing techniques. I purchased it along with Photoshop Elements. One problem though...After Chapter 4, images on CD do not correspond to text in book. Should be re-done.
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Summary: A must buy for those who loves digital photography !
Review: This is one book that teaches all about digital photography in 50 fast steps. It's very informative and easy, plus a lot of pictures to illustrates the examples. I never regret buying it. I think anyone with a digital camera should own this book.
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Summary: This is the best way
Review: This is the best book to use to learn the essentials of how to use Photoshop Elements for beginners. You can't go wrong if your are getting started with digital photography and printing if you spend a few nights going through these excercises.
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Summary: Have Fun!
Review: Truly informative book. I am Photoshop user, the full program but this book is aimed toward the Photoshop Elements or even other image editing programs these techniques can be benefited from. Learn to improve and enhance your images, change color, filter effects or even reconstruct them for whole new images. Use ink sketch, water color, the variety it talks about is remarkable. The techniques are very easy to understand and follow allowing you to be able to cover everything talked about in this book.
Learn all you can and have fun!
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Summary: Have Fun!
Review: Truly informative book. I am Photoshop user, the full program but this book is aimed toward the Photoshop Elements or even other image editing programs these techniques can be benefited from. Learn to improve and enhance your images, change color, filter effects or even reconstruct them for whole new images. Use ink sketch, water color, the variety it talks about is remarkable. The techniques are very easy to understand and follow allowing you to be able to cover everything talked about in this book.
Learn all you can and have fun!
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Summary: Hands on learning
Review: What a great way to learn the basics of photo editing! The book and CD are designed to try the techniques as you learn them. Having abilities to use the "Digital darkroom" adds a new level to photography. The book addresses editing images from your digital camera or scanned photographs (great for improving old family photos.)
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