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Title: Photoshop 6 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide by Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas ISBN: 0-201-71309-8 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 25 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.35 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good for explorers - bad reviews unwarranted
Comment: I agree with the "Gypsybells" review below -- this is a good book. Photoshop is an EXTREMELY difficult and complex program to learn, and it's kind of impossible to learn it without exploring. For any one way you want something to look (say, add an outer glow to items on a layer), there are umpteen million ways you could go about doing it. That's what makes Photoshop such a diverse and awesomely powerful application.
Using Photoshop successfully requires knowing in the first place how you want your project to look -- i.e. you have to start out with some sense of visual design. This book is NOT a text about graphic design or aesthetics. I think that's what's frustrating to so many reviewers below who don't have a graphic design background. The book won't give you ideas about how to design something. It WILL show you how to do some basic neat stuff with Photoshop's functions. You'll come out of the book with a sense of accomplishment, because you'll know how to do a few neat things, and the BASIC tools to which this book introduces you will encourage you to explore further. Which is really what you have to do. There's just no other way. It is the nature of graphic design programs -- you have to try things out, because each project will be entirely different.
I enjoy the Visual Quickstart series because it includes a lot of screen shots of how things should look, and they are usually straightforward in their wording. They don't have a lot of "side" material (commentary, "fluff"), so you can barrel right through the book and get down to business.
This should not be your only Photoshop book, because it doesn't go into deep detail about Photoshop's functions. But it's definitely a valuable resource if you're just starting Photoshop and want to know what the heck this program is all about.
Rating: 2
Summary: Neither "Quick" nor a "Start"
Comment: This is the fifth book I've purchased from the Visual QuickStart series. Up until now, these books have made learning CorelDraw 9, JavaScript, DreamWeaver 3, etc. almost too easy. You launch the program, set the book in front of you, and you're off, and more often than not, having fun. This book was vastly different. First, it's over 500 pages of very small text (not quite a "quick" start). It's twice as thick as any other QuickStart book I have. Second, and more importantly, it does a less than adequate job of explaining the terms it uses as it teaches you PhotoShop. Too often it uses terms that it hasn't explained yet (i.e. referring to image layers and shape layers, before explaining the difference), and too many times it references other parts of the book ("To do this, click here, for more on this, turn to page 412"). It gets very frustrating, and often I find myself referring to the index for more explanation. Unfortunately, the index isn't that well organized either. This may wind up being a valuable reference book for me someday but, as a introductory book, it frustrates much more than it helps.
Rating: 5
Summary: "You'll be up & running in no-time" (seriously)
Comment: Very good resource for learning the ins-&-outs of Photoshop. Nothing in the book was a "serious waste of time", which I find in a lot of books. You'll pick-up a great deal, but still there's even more to learn. Displacement maps & all those other tidbits are left out, but thats why Colin Smith, Kelby, Monroe, & other gurus, come out with the books they do.
As for those other reviewers who says its not for beginners, thats nonsense. If you not sitting in front of Photoshop practicing then perhaps the newly aqquainted will get lost.
One last note, Photoshop 7 is out now, I've toyed with it and used it, and this book for 6 is still just as good. In 7, theres a filebrowser, a cool new brush engine, and some [crummy]new tools in the toolbox that you'll never use.
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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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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: QuarkXPress 4 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) by Elaine Weinmann ISBN: 0201696991 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 21 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Dreamweaver 4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide by J. Tarin Towers ISBN: 0201734303 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 05 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Illustrator 10 for Windows and Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) by Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas ISBN: 020177321X Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 08 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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