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Summary: An excellent result-oriented book which will fascinate you
Review: A Photoshop novice will have to handle a lot of prose in most of the existing books in the market. Before he can have some of the fun, he will have to go through pages of information about all the menus, commands and tools or about scanning. After that, she will be confrontated with boring selection exercises. By that time, most of her motivation may be over and she will try to acomplish the desired tasks by herself. This user will try to enhance photos by using simple color correction settings instead of levels, by using an error-prone selection tool instead of the quick mask mode. And so on. Until after this book came. Now a novice or beginner's level user can easily jump start with some really powerful tools that Photoshop offers. He/she will find out how wonderful it can be when the motivation and the momentum is kept alive. He/she will also have troubles getting back to the prose-filled, tell-you-all books when she/he wants to get deeper in the subject matter. This is a great book!
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Summary: Lives up to its name
Review: I found this book to be extremely helpful, as I tend to use certain of Photoshop's elements on a regular basis, and need a refresher on others at times. The cross-program aspect of the book appealed to me, as I have the graphics suite and need to use it more fully. The instructions are clear and easy to follow, and the templates, etc. on the cd are a bonus. Well worth the money.
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Summary: Neat and Practical
Review: This book is a color one and is different from the Classroom In A Book series that is all black and white. This little book is a practical one since it goes right into the 26 hands-on projects. It is useful for those who are new to Photoshop. It's very important for one to practice in order to understand and be proficient in using Photoshop. The reason is ideas will automactically come our your mind when you use it very often. It covers masking, color correction and other exercises. This book is like a companion to Classroom In A Book. A newbie can quickly feel the power of Photoshop that helps in creativity and productivity. The 26 projects are enough to help you to do simple graphics for web purpose as well as simple photo retouching. The CD comes with fonts, clip art and other plugins. As a professional designer, I have other resources like these. Therefore I don't find the CD is useful to me. If you are a newbie, you will like this book as well as the CD. It doesn't cover ImageReady 2.0 and I wonder if they will publish a second edition for Photoshop 5.5. The only down side of this book is the price is a bit expensive for such a little book.
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Summary: Neat and Practical
Review: This book is a color one, not liked the Classroom In A Book series that is all black and white. This little book is a practical one since it has 26 hands-on projects. It is useful for those who are new to Photoshop. It's very important for one to practice in order to understand and be proficient in using Photoshop. The reason is ideas will automactically come from your mind when you use it very often. I have been using Photoshop since version 3, therefore I only read all the hands-on projects at the bookstore. I cannot comment on the CD when I don't have a chance to use it. The only down side of this book is the price is a bit expensive for such a little book.
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Summary: Disappointing waste of money.
Review: This book wouldn't be so disappointing if it would have been titled the "Adobe Productivity Kit." Nearly every example ends up taking you into PageMaker or in some instances into ImageReady. There are better books for learning Photoshop tips and techniques that stick specifically to PS.
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Summary: Disappointing waste of money.
Review: This book wouldn't be so disappointing if it would have been titled the "Adobe Productivity Kit." Nearly every example ends up taking you into PageMaker or in some instances into ImageReady. There are better books for learning Photoshop tips and techniques that stick specifically to PS.
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Summary: Should Have Been Called PageMaker Productivity Kit
Review: Unless you have Adobe PageMaker, you won't be able to complete sixteen of the twenty-six examples in the book. In addition, the book does cover PhotoShop 5.5 so those of you with version 5 won't be able to try the ImageReady examples. Other than a very misleading title and sparse PHOTOSHOP activities, the book was just okay.
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