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Summary: PhotoShop for Dummies is just Dumb
Review: If the writer of this book concentrated more on providing helpful information rather than wasting my time attempting to be witty, this book might have been useful. I found this book to be a total waste of my time and money. It doesn't even warrant the 1 star rating minimum.
Rating:
Summary: PhotoShop for Dummies is just Dumb
Review: If the writer of this book concentrated more on providing helpful information rather than wasting my time attempting to be witty, this book might have been useful. I found this book to be a total waste of my time and money. It doesn't even warrant the 1 star rating minimum.
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Summary: Good Book But...
Review: Photoshop is a very powerful and sometimes ovewhelming application to learn. This book is very helpful in learning the basics and refreshing you on what you know. There are very clear illustrations and directions to get you on the road to understanding the software. It is an excellent reference book for the novice Photoshop user and far better than any documentation provided by Adobe.My biggest gripe with this book is that it tries so hard to be your friend and use humour (in the tradition of the Dummies series) that the frivolity often got in the way of getting to the point. This is one time I found the the humour to be simply distracting. Humor is good, but learing how to accomplish a task is the reason I buy a manual. If I want a comedy book, I'll look for Photoshop by Al Franken. Next edition I hope they assign an editor with a slightly more liberal use of the proofreading pen.
Rating:
Summary: Good Book But...
Review: Photoshop is a very powerful and sometimes ovewhelming application to learn. This book is very helpful in learning the basics and refreshing you on what you know. There are very clear illustrations and directions to get you on the road to understanding the software. It is an excellent reference book for the novice Photoshop user and far better than any documentation provided by Adobe. My biggest gripe with this book is that it tries so hard to be your friend and use humour (in the tradition of the Dummies series) that the frivolity often got in the way of getting to the point. This is one time I found the the humour to be simply distracting. Humor is good, but learing how to accomplish a task is the reason I buy a manual. If I want a comedy book, I'll look for Photoshop by Al Franken. Next edition I hope they assign an editor with a slightly more liberal use of the proofreading pen.
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Summary: This book is awesome
Review: This book shows you all the shortcut keys that help you get around the program. The full-color pages show you what kind of effects PhotoShop is capable of, and the well-organized pages surrounding the color show you how to accomplish it. This book uncovers all the hidden wonders PhotoShop is capable of. If you paid $600+ for PhotoShop 5 then you need to pay the extra money to get a copy of this book. No matter what the cost.
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Summary: Excellent and thorough but burdened by cornball humor
Review: This complete from-the-ground-up guide to dealing with photos in Photoshop 5 is thorough. It provides good background about resolution, pixels, dimensions, colors, and many other things which give the reader the information needed to make intelligent decisions about their graphics for various uses, be they photo printing or web publishing. This is not surprising since the book is authored by Deke McClelland, the author of "The" Photoshop bible. But this book has one major drawback. It believes that because it is written for "dummies" it must therefore be terribly silly. If you can sit and watch a full hour of Bob Sagget talking his way through reruns of Funniest Home Videos, then you won't mind. Others have to wince through these passages to get to the next perls of wisdom. But the wait is always worth it. The book is perhaps a bit too detailed for the quick-how-do-I-do-this crowd and requires a bit of study, perhaps half an hour at a time.
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