Step-By-Step Electronic Design Techniques (Step-By-Step)

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Summary: Uninspiring Book
Review: The title of the book is very misleading. It is not step-by-step, but more like skip a step and try and figure out how we did this. Not that great. Better books out there.

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Summary: Very helpful how-tos by top designers
Review: This book is for people who know how to use the programs covered (primarily Photoshop) and are familiar with the various tools, layers, paths, filters, channels, etc., as it explains and shows you how professionals achieved their results in areas ranging from imitating paint and canvas to batik to perfecting a pattern to hand-painted effects with channels to painting an intricate pattern to desktop silkscreening to building your own brushes and many more.

I admit I am fairly new to these programs and not yet confident in my understanding and use of their various tools and functions, nonetheless I found this book very helpful in not only taking me beyond the tutorials, but in showing me the vast capabilities of these graphics programs. There are many good techniques shown here that I know will be very useful to me as I become more proficient in the use of these programs.