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Summary: Good tutorial for beginners
Review: If you're new to PSP this is a good book that will familiarize you with what PSP 5 can do. Some info is basic. Chapters are divided into 1-hour lessons although I finished most in less than an hour. Nice examples, although some laborious, show you the cool tricks. Examples are author's tricks so it doesn't teach you how to make your own but the examples provide starting point for you to play around and experiment. Best part is the links to more tutorials. Don't expect a complete guide. It only touches the surface. Nice cheat sheet too.
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Summary: A must for beginners to PaintShopPro
Review: Pros: it has many examples that clearly shows you how to complete the project. However, this edition has no color at all, thus it is hard to see the result prior to actually testing on your own. It might be good since it prompts you to going through the examples but I think it's not the way to present a book about a graphic product. In general this book is aimed to beginners only because assumes that you know nothing about the product you are using, not even where to find the tools and the menus. But I strongly recommend it to those of you that have just bought PSP and want to start doing something cool, especially for the web. In the special effect section, the author shows examples with third parties plug-ins that aren't quit affordable: he uses the alienskip suite that costs $129.00 on sale !!!! However, he also shows how to use the built-in special effects that come with PSP.
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Summary: Save Your Money
Review: Save your money. This book is a disappointment. Very poorly written. Black and White (only) illustrations are a serious problem.
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Summary: Good book for beginners. Great price for value received.
Review: The 24 lessons are generally very helpful and specific. The very detailed step-by-step tutorials makes it easy to duplicate the author's results each time. However, I did wish for more expository detail in some of the topics. Overall this is a worthwhile book for beginners and the price for value received is excellent.
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Summary: PSP Beginners Buy This Book!
Review: This is a great book, I have been using psp for a while now and I thought it was a great book, a terrific buy. This book gives you ideas and tutorials that you can actually use, and refer back to for help. You cant beat it for quality and price.
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Summary: Every beginner/intermediate PSP user should read this book
Review: This is an amazing book that has taught me many things I never knew were possible with the software. There is even a chapter where the author shows you how to remove a person's braces from a photograph. As well, I've found the author to be extremely helpful in answering any of my questions, (even some non book-related questions) via e-mail.Highly recommended...
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!
Review: What a terrible book! The information provided is written poorly and not in color. The tutorials are not really of much help as most are already covered in the software manual. The author even recommends another book for more info. In my opinion, this book should never have been written. Basically, the audience are those people who have never purchased the software as the manual is better than the material covered in this book. Also, I had to repeat the tutorials many times as the author does not clearly give precise directions. Many times I spent more time trying to figure out what to do with his instructions, rather than learning the program. If you want a simple way to learn PSP, then buy the program and learn the manual or use another book.
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