Photoshop Studio Secrets

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Summary: Nice demos of a wide range of styles, subjects, and methods
Review: I picked up my copy at MacWorld in January, right after publication. This book has been a wonderful inspiration. Many times I find myself off-line, reading this text, going through the "aha!" moments when I finally realize how these artists make their images.

A wonderful text for people that find themselves wondering how to tackle a wide range of projects, from Web to multimedia. The subject matter covers high-end commercial art, multimedia (including manipulating images & video for video, the web, & cd-rom), and my personal favorite, QTVR.

If you are just beginning to work with Photoshop, this book may be a bit too much. However, if you've put some hours into projects on the program, this might be just the book that you need to insipre, intrigue, and stimulate the creative juices.

Plus, it comes with a CD that is readable by Mac, & Wintel computers.

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Summary: Good book, but...
Review: if you own both PhotoShop Studio Secrets AND PhotoShop 5 Bible Gold Edition, you'll find that 14 out the 21 chapters in PhotoShop Studio Secrets are exactly the same as the PhotoShop 5 Bible Gold Edition...SO, if money is an issue, it's something to think about...

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Summary: Waste of money
Review: Like many of Deke M's books, this one is maximimised with dross in a effort to convince you to hand over your hard earned cash. Much of this book is a rehash of Phtsp 5, and i don't recommend that either. Macllelands aim here is to make money for himself and his publishers. If anyone is interested in a author who writes books on Photoshop, who is interested in teaching you amazing techniques, rather than spinning out the manual....look into Bert Monroys books, for a long time i spun my wheels geting caught in the trap of writers and pundits like Deke, who really have nothing to offer except a padding out of 23 pages of matieral into 500 in order to convince you to send your money his way. Then i finally found some real educators, wizards (like mentioned earlier) where my knowledge went from zero to hero with every single paragraph...and the books became more engrossing and enchanting every sentence right to the end....where one was exhausted with the extent one learned. I strongly advise readers to avoid Maclelland and his ilk...and look further

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Summary: Studio Secrets 2nd Edition is 1st Rate
Review: PhotoShop Studio Secrets 2nd edition is not your run-of-the-mill photoshop book. The authors do not waste your time by rehashing basic PhotoShop methods and deliver a great how-to for 21 different methods of pixel manipulation. Everything from using mutliple layers effeciently to editing photo-realistic mattes for high budget movies is explained in detail that even an intermediate photoshop user can apply. I tutor PhotoShop and this book is now my intermediate textbook. Hats off to Deke McClelland and Katrin Eismann.

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Summary: half and half
Review: some interesting stuff, some stuff i have already seen before sssssssoooooo many times

i really don't know why people rate this book 5 stars when it deliberately repeats material found in every basic text -- or was that just part of the contract for paid reviewship? hmmmm....

a bit overpriced and there are probably better values and more practical presentations out there but i haven't found them yet (bert monroy does rule but there must be others...)

Rating:
Summary: half and half
Review: some interesting stuff, some stuff i have already seen before sssssssoooooo many times

i really don't know why people rate this book 5 stars when it deliberately repeats material found in every basic text -- or was that just part of the contract for paid reviewship? hmmmm....

a bit overpriced and there are probably better values and more practical presentations out there but i haven't found them yet (bert monroy does rule but there must be others...)

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Summary: This book gets an "F" for Fantastic <~~Corny, I know...
Review: This book is great. I am a photoshop student (teaching myself) but I'm not a beginner, but not a photoshop guru either, this book is just right for all those people in between and even for the gurus. I was happy to fork over more than 40 bucks for this book. Hell, I think I'm going to buy 2 more to give as presents. I reccomend this book to anyone who is looking to pursue a job in the grpahics industry or who just want to make nifty looking graphics.