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Title: Photoshop 5.5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guide (2nd Edition) by Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas ISBN: 0-201-69957-5 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 21 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.53 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not a "how-to"
Comment: It's true what other reviewers have said. this book will NOT teach you how to use Photoshop or how to do cool stuff with it or how to get the most out of it. But what it will do is put the complicated menus, commands, keyboard shortcuts, etc of this fabulous but MASSIVE program at your fingertips in a way that is easy to search and find what you need. I think Adobe's user guide that comes with the program is poorly written and organized. If you're opening PS for the first time, just clicking on the menus is a daunting task and Adobe's guide doesn't really help.
This VQS guide from Peachpit will help you make sense of basic commands, where things are and how to get to them. It makes the groundwork of the program easier to understand. Keep it by your side as you need to find a command or a shortcut as you work through one of the mnany great tutorial books out there which this is not.
I guess in a nutshell, get this book if Adobe's documentation is clear as mud to you as it was to me. It's the user's manual you probably need. But don't get it if you're looking for a tutorial book that will help you make an actual picture with PhotoShop. The nuts and bolts of the program are here in a very clear, easy to find your way around format but it will not sub for a tutorial book.
Rating: 2
Summary: If only it was a guide
Comment: While this book does go through the fundamentals of photoshop, it does little to actually guide you through. It makes the same mistake that so many tutorial books do; it tells you what to do but then does not explain why, when or how it works at all. There is very little organized explaination of the different tools and all explainations it does give are cut short. I feel like i need to buy a new book to REALLY learn photoshop.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not a good book for Beginners at ALL or Maybe Anyone
Comment: I took this book out at the library and was surprised after reading other quickstart guides - what a disorganized mess it is! The headings don't even stand out (they are barely larger than the type) and there is so much information packed into the book with very little white space, quite frankly, it's overwhelming. The authors clearly know a lot but the way the information is presented really needs work! Each chapter begins with a paragraph telling you what you will learn in this chapter, similar to a training guide. Whereas other visual quickstart guides followed more of a reference style where you could decide the task you wanted to do and look up the procedure in the book, this book isn't sure whether it's a training guide or a reference guide, as it tries to be both and fails miserably. Although it pretends to be a training guide by its introduction "In this chapter, you will learn..." everything that follows is not training guide material - it kind of drops you in the middle of all this text from the next page onward and leaves you sitting there wondering what happened and where the guide went! So basically, it is a reference, guide, albeit a poor one. The biggest problem is, each section is not clearly delineated within the text so if you don't want to read every page(how many people do want to read every page of a reference book? but you want to learn how to place an image into photoshop for example (one of the things you will learn in chapter 3) - you really have to DIG around the chapter to find it. In this book, all the information is buried within other information. Very poor organization and too confusing for me. I am a tech writer and I am so glad I didn't buy this book!!
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Title: Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 5.5 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team ISBN: 020165895X Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 27 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Photoshop 5/5.5 Wow! Book (5th Edition) by Linnea Dayton, Jack Davis ISBN: 0201353717 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 07 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: QuarkXPress 4 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide by Elaine Weinmann ISBN: 0201696231 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 13 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Illustrator 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (5th Edition) by Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas ISBN: 0201353881 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 12 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Illustrator 9 for Windows and Macintosh Visual Quickstart Guide by Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas ISBN: 0201708981 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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