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Summary: Not a good instruction book or reference book
Review: If I wanted to know where the blur effect is, I would just use Photoshops help. This book does not live up to its title, unless by "fast & easy" they mean the amount of time it would take to get through this book.I wish authors would stop creating beginners books that don't explain concepts. If anyone needs to know the difference between a motion blur and a Gaussian blur it is a beginner. Just showing a person the menu commands does the same as the manuals. I looked at this books because I have been forcing myself to transfer from Corel Photopaint to PhotoShop. I found this book to be a waste of time.
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Summary: Not a good instruction book or reference book
Review: If I wanted to know where the blur effect is, I would just use Photoshops help. This book does not live up to its title, unless by "fast & easy" they mean the amount of time it would take to get through this book. I wish authors would stop creating beginners books that don't explain concepts. If anyone needs to know the difference between a motion blur and a Gaussian blur it is a beginner. Just showing a person the menu commands does the same as the manuals. I looked at this books because I have been forcing myself to transfer from Corel Photopaint to PhotoShop. I found this book to be a waste of time.
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Summary: Exposes features . . .
Review: Not as helpful a book as i hoped. I am rather new to Photoshop, but expected something at least a bit more in-depth. This book merely exposes features. I was very disappointed at first; but a second look did yield more useful content. This book is full of screen snapshots which take up most of every page -- with text on the remaining bit of space. This book may be more suited for those who have never seen any version of photoshop. (Actually, thumbing through this book, the introduction states this book is geared for novices of digital image creation or photoshop [newbies].) Chapter 1 begins with Starting Photoshop, and the steps : Click Start button on the windows taskbar. Point to Programs, Adobe, Photoshop 6. It takes one full page and a half (3 screen-shots) to cover opening Photoshop. The next page in the book finally gets Photoshop OPEN. If that is the help you need, then this is the book for you ! I don't want to sound too critical of the book itself. I want to help others make an informed decisions.
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Summary: Great if you don't have a clue on how to use menus
Review: Tells you how to access the features, but not why you would want to or what to do with the features after you access them. Basically teaches you how to use menus. No help in teaching how to improve your digital photos, with the features of Photoshop 6.
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Summary: Impressively Bad
Review: This is truly a poor book. Unhelpful. Badly Organized. Wrong information. Ignorant of keyboard shortcuts. Repetitive. Here's just one of my favorites (from page 82):
"If you see the phrase Alt+click in the rest of the book, it means you should hold the Shift key while dragging. Release the mouse button before you release the Shift key." Go figure.
Rating:
Summary: Impressively Bad
Review: This is truly a poor book. Unhelpful. Badly Organized. Wrong information. Ignorant of keyboard shortcuts. Repetitive. Here's just one of my favorites (from page 82):
"If you see the phrase Alt+click in the rest of the book, it means you should hold the Shift key while dragging. Release the mouse button before you release the Shift key." Go figure.
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