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Summary: Nice try...
Review: .. this is a great book for a reader who haven't bought the wow 4 book. For the rest of us... what is the point? I had been looking forward so much to get this book, and the feeling of being cheated was incredible when I opened it. Page for page - the same content, examples, chapters etc as the old book. Nothing much new here - and for the little that were, you are better off getting this book through the library if you really think it will teach you something. I am so disappointed. Does the authors not care about their old readers, or what? This book is ridicolous.
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Summary: The Photo Shop Wow Book is Worth a look.
Review: A very good book for any level photoshop artist. Has many good tips and tricks and the Cd that comes with the book is very helpful.
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Summary: Wow! indeed
Review: Because of its short bursts of information and jump-around style, this book is not a good way for beginners to learn Photoshop. HOWEVER, if you have mastered the basics and want to know how apply them to particular situations and needs, the book definitely lives up to its title. I found a great deal of exciting and useful information here.
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Summary: Beware... this book is not suitable for advanced users!
Review: Do not buy this book unless you have never seen any photoshop book in your life!Ok... The book is beautiful, very colorful, but the best presented and explained exercices are unavailable inside the CD (or at least mostly of them are unavailable) and thus you're stuck with silly photo collages and more than 30 pages describing what are plug-ins, specially KPT, which is only available as a demo inside the CD! The photo collections inside the CD are poor...and as mentioned before, do not help you at all to achieve a greater performance with photoshop...unless you are a very, very begginer in digital arts and digital image manipulation! I guarantee that advanced users are better off without this book...There isn't a single gallery inside the CD to show artwork from artists! Sorry folks, the book isn't wort ten bucks.. and it took so long for the authors to publish it.. more than two years! So, we were expecting something greater than that! Again, spend you money with some other books at Amazon...e,g Photoshop Artistry or Photoshop Studio Secrets, which were meant to teach you everything you need and should receive 5 stars. The rest is up to you, your brains and your creativity!
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Summary: A great book, but maybe not for everybody
Review: First, if you own the Photoshop 4 Wow book, you'll probably don't want this one (there's a lot of repetition from the 4, which I find excusable since a lot of Photoshop 5/5.5 is the same as in version 4).Second: even though it says on the back cover that it's for beginners up to advanced users, in my opinion the ones who'll benefit the most from it are the intermediate users - those who, without being Photoshop gurus, are already familiar with Photoshop (at least a little). I think this is a great book, with a lot of information, tips and tricks that will probably make using Photoshop a more enjoyable and fruitful experience for everybody, but almost certainly for intermediate users. However it would be even better if the CD included all the pictures, photos and presets necessary for the book's projects/tutorials, instead of only some of them (that's why I didn't give it 5 stars).
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Summary: So much stuff!
Review: Great book, tons of tips. And finally a good chrome! The rock tutorials are great too! Awesome book for any Photoshop professional, it sure is makin my job easier.
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Summary: A WASTE OF TIME
Review: I absolutely, positively, cannot believe that these people actually put there name on this book. Its an embarassment. I have counted on these books for years. Now I am sure I will never buy them again. This is basically the 4 Wow Book with a new cover. All the that time waiting for nothing. You would think with all the "time" they had, they would have done something spectacular. I am more upset than angry, its very, very dissapointing.
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Summary: Kudos to the authors!
Review: I agree with the readers, about the book's small changes. Though there haven't been drastic changes in the book, it isn't really fair to give it one star either. The authors managed to cover every new feature and tool, even giving them special coverage, plus the full color layout, makes the book a sheer haven to read. (And also because this book was written for Intermediate-Advanced users, the idiot who bought the book without noticing the fact first has got to be the stupidest person I know.) If the program didn't change, how big of a change do you expect from the book. The coverage from the Photoshop 4 Wow! Book was amazing, so there really isn't much to cover anymore in version 5, I'm sure. This book is great, the CD-ROM, is even better than any other CD-ROM which came with other books I've read, no CD-ROM managed to come up with such great actions and collage layers such as this one.(Due to distribution laws, I'm sure the authors loved to give you a fully functional copy of Alien Skin's Eye Candy and Kai's Power Tools, but couldn't)
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Summary: The book that ended up in the trash can.
Review: I am most surprise to read the reviews about the book. Because I as a beginer just couldn't understand the authors way of explanations of the various topics. I have done my level best to make sense out of their way of vividly illustrated pages but to no avail. After I followed their instruction the last time and ended up not finding the discribed keys and icons the book ended up in the trash can. As far as I am concerned the book is garbage. This book was the 56th insruction book I read during the last two years and it was amongst the worst. I am a very organised person. This is where my first trouble started with the book. The chapters are there but without index. I ended up making an index. The explanations are there, but the way it is written is most difficult to understand for a beginer. It was a good romance at the start but it ended up in disappointment and now it is garbage.
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Summary: The Photoshop 5.0/5.5 Wow! Book
Review: I am not new to Photoshop 5. I believe in that old saying,"you can never learn enough or be smart enough to learn even one new thing everyday". A lot of the material in this book was old hat to me, but I did learn more than one new trick! I would HIGHLY recommend this book for anyone that wants to learn about Photoshop 5/5.5. This book has super tutorials and the pictures give a wonderful guide for, step by step, instructions. The CD rom could have been better, I will agree on that one....
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