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Title: Inside Adobe Photoshop 6 by Gary D. Bouton, Barbara Bouton, Ron Pfister, Beth Mohler, Mara Zebest Nathanson, Gary Kubicek ISBN: 0-7357-1038-4 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 19 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Gary Bouton - Your Still The Man
Comment: I can't wait any longer to write my review of Gary's new book. No, I have not finished the book yet, but I have been through many pages and words describing Adobe's phenominal new product; Photoshop 6!
As Gary pointed out, Photoshop 6 is a whole new ballgame. It's almost twice as large as Photoshop 5.5, but somehow 'friendlier'. Or at the very least, easier to use.
I noticed that one reviewer complained about errors in the book. I want you to know that every time I saw what I thought was an error, it was my interpretation of what was being said. I bring a lot of paradigms to my reading and studying. A man doesn't give up a whole summer of his life to produce a piece of garbage.
I'm trained in Photoshop because of Gary Bouton and his wife. In the early days I would read every word and do every lesson until I understood it. It has paid off. I don't have time for that anymore and I miss doing it. It was a right of passage for me.
Now, with the new Photoshop, Gary has had to have help. This will give you an idea of the magnitude of this endeavor. It takes what I call a "3 inch" book to learn these new, heavy-hitter programs. I did the same thing with Adobe Illustrator.
If you want to learn Adobe Photoshop, you are going to have to bite-the-bullet, as they say, and knuckle down and study it. I can think of no better book to do it with. I can think of no better author to do it with. Spend your money and your time wisely and purchase this book. In the future you will thank me for this review, and you will thank Gary Bouton and his helpers for all his/their hard work. Thank you Gary, you're still THE MAN.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best pick for Photoshop 6 books
Comment: In preparing to transition at team of graphic artists and web designers from Photoshop 5.5 to Photoshop 6, I have reviewed several books on the revised application. Inside Adobe Photoshop 6 is the best I have found that will serve as both a comprehensive tutorial and a reference manual.
This book is loaded with samples and how-tos that will help anyone planning to learn Photoshop 6.
The wonderful folks at Adobe have brought us another powerful program, and Gary Bouton and his team have brought us another valuable tool for tackling yet another version of Photoshop.
This book is a must buy for both novice and pro.
Rating: 2
Summary: I Can't read it, can you ?
Comment: I am a programmer, not a DTP professional - therefore this review might not be good for people who do the living on DTP or photography editing.
This book seems to cover techniques how to do something, but in a strange manner. The book is too slow, which makes me very inpatient and angry, and examples (tasks) often are guided like: press ctrl T, now D, then select pen tool and draw a line (which you can't from some reason), then press this and that, and we have a new path here, now hide a layer by ctrl whatever, and so on.
The book is not organized well. It misses the global definitions at the beginning, e.g. what the path is. What is a layer? When we use it? Then there should be a simple example how and when to use it. When to link or not to link a selection with layer? When to use RGB layers, add a selection layer. And finally the same for some frequently used basic tools and effects (shadows, distortions, and whatever is important).
I have seen many people who really know Photoshop (guys who work for newspapers), and that stuff can't be learned from this book. They use different techniques, more efficient, while this book wastes your time by showing you how to do a shadow, or use a path for such a simple thing that you would never use path for. Also, the author is paying too much attention for tools like lasso, or some other selection tools, while I was interested into details of displacement maps and other effects, mixing photos and etc.
However, I have seen that marks of this book are really great - and therefore I must be very wrong because I am going to mark this book with only two stars, so forgive me on that. But I would really recommend future readers to try to borrow this book before buying it or compare with some other book, since this book is not organized well and is not leading you properly as the good book should.
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Title: Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 6.0 Web Design by Michael Baumgardt ISBN: 0201721465 Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 05 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team ISBN: 0201710161 Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 28 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Photoshop 6 Killer Tips by Scott Kelby, Felix Nelson ISBN: 0735712093 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 03 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Photoshop 7 Magic (with CD-ROM) by Sherry London, Rhoda Grossman ISBN: 0735712646 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 09 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Deke McClelland's Look & Learn Photoshop 6 by Deke McClelland ISBN: 0764535080 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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