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Summary: GREAT Book!
Review: I've been a graphic designer for 5 years and there was stuff in this book that I didn't know! I don't think it's a "Beginner's Book" but if you know the basics and you're a graphic designer for the web OR print then this is the book you've been looking for .
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Summary: GOOD PRICE
Review: If your going to Fairleigh Dickinson University you will need this book if your taking Digital Design and Graphics Price is GOOD
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Summary: It is a VERY GOOD book
Review: It is a VERY GOOD book, lots of illustrations, all in colour so you can
actually see the result of things, very good descriptions of how to do
things. Deep enough for me to understand them and being able to actually explain the procedures to other people. I actually used his chapter about bettering greyscale images in a special course I did for two women who does a paper only in greyscale (they use InDesign and Photoshop). So that chapter I dug into real deep at the time. The other parts of the book are just as good. I really like this book. It also comes with a CD with all image-examples used in the book.I warmly recommend it to anyone who wants to dig deeper into Photoshop and really understand how to use the tools and techniques in it. It doesn't just teach how to make spectacular effects, it actually gives understand to all the techniques and teaches you how to use them yourself.
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Summary: Not that user friendly
Review: It is hard for me to fallow this book, it is laid out in a strange way and the examples are not that good, but it is helpful in explaining the basics although sometimes not to my satisfaction.
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Summary: A MUST-HAVE for Mastering Photoshop
Review: Mr. Willmore started off on the right foot with me in the intro when he states that he would include at the end of each chapter a "technobabble decoder ring," which serves to demystify the terminology thrown around in most software guides. Coming from a web design background, I was mostly interested in how I could use Photoshop to do website layouts - material which is covered in only two or three chapters at the end of the book. Before actually reading the book, I was a little disappointed at first that internet design was given such little attention. Then I started reading through the chapters. As I continued through the pages, I was delighted to see that ninety percent of the book covered material that would prove to be invaluable in learning to master the program, both for offline and online designs. With humor and insight, Mr. Willmore takes the mystery out of blending modes, curves, layer masks and channels - tools that, as he puts it, "separates the amateur from the professional." I wish Mr. Willmore would write books covering other programs like Paint Shop Pro, which badly needs a guide as in depth as this one is for Photoshop 7. Needless to say, this is a MUST-HAVE for any aspiring or established Photoshopper.
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Summary: Awsome!!!
Review: Perfect!...Exactly what I needed. If you're looking for a great PhotoShop book that's for beginners, but that's "Not-For-Dummies", this is the real deal. Extremely well written, great "insider" info. Will not bore you....very fun to real. I never wanted to close this book! Highly recommended.
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Summary: sections poorly explained
Review: The book is hit or miss -- some sections are well explained, but others are a mess (i.e., implicit assumptions, steps left out, the figures and text either in disagreement or having little to do with each other). One glaring example is in chapter 10, printing grayscale images (p. 279). If you follow the book's instructions/steps, you wind up with an image that's not at all what's expected. There are other sections equally bad where I've gotten hopeless bogged down in confusion. About 30% of time, the book's been a disappointment and a discouragement. Mr. Willmore needs to include more figures that visually show that the heck he's taking about, and the figures he does include need to better support his discussion -- his descriptions of sequential operations in photoshop are often sorely lacking in clarity and accuate detail.
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Summary: A great book for a fresh designer
Review: The language (technical term) on this book is very jentle to understand what is a problem and solve a problem.
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Summary: Not That Great
Review: This book looks beautiful, but it is hard to follow. It gives some directions but they are incorrect.
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Summary: In-depth,"why" book - not a "how to" book
Review: Very well done, explains the reasons behind each tool, rather than a step-by-step "get this cool effect" book. Took me from a Corel Draw vector junkie to a Photoshop veteran in just a few weeks.
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