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Title: Photoshop 5.5 and ImageReady 2.0 Hands-On Training by Lynda Weinman ISBN: 0-201-35467-5 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 24 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.81 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Easy to Use, Easy to Remember
Comment: First, I really liked this book. It is easy to read, easy to use, well-designed, etc. Second, this book emphasizes web design graphics. If you are looking for a generalist book on Photoshop this isn't the book for you -- it is almost entirely geared toward web application, and most of the book diverts attention toward the aspects of web graphics processing that are addressed by Imageready and replicated in Photoshop 5.5. It is pretty much the standard stuff you need to know how to do to make the programs work. If you're slightly beyond beginner level like me, it does a good job of wrapping up loose ends and putting away some worrisome details by giving clear details. The author has a very easy-going narrative style but she also gets her point across in ways that are not highly technical. The book also includes useful tables and templates. Sure you could make these yourself...after you cut your nails, and take out the trash, and feed the hamster, and oh, watch TV... In other words, it also provides you stuff you will find really useful in understanding or using these programs that you will NEVER get around to putting together until you really understand this stuff at which time you won't need it anymore. The design of the book is quite beautiful and everything is in full color. There is no "filler" like you find in other so-called Bibles where the images are displayed and don't serve any purpose. The CD tutorials are easy to find, on-the-mark and don't waste your time with bloat. The downside to the book is, in my opinion, it should have a chapter or two on a few advanced methods, so intermediates have a place to go. Is it worth the price? Given that the CD actually has a purpose in life and the amount of time it will save you fiddling around these two programs on your own, yes. But if you can get it on sale...
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book, oh, and by the way, it's "lynda.com"
Comment: This is a great Photoshop/ImageReady training or hands-on resource. It really should be titled "Lynda's ImageReady training, co-starring Photoshop." The book is geared for those who know the basics of Photoshop, but it focuses on ImageReady, not Photoshop. It gets a little repetitive, but my biggest problems with the book are a.) all the blatant advertisements built into the lessons, and b.) the fact that their tech support is completely un-responsive.
Every other exercise in the book contains a graphic with a marketing ditty for Lynda.com. I hope her upcoming Dreamweaver 3 HOT book is less obnoxious.
My CD came with a scratch that made the files for one of the lessons inaccessible and I e-mailed her "tech support" for help. That was over a week ago, I have still not received a relpy, and I don't expect to. Why offer to help if you don't do so?
Other than that, it is a very well written learning aid for how to apply ImageReady (and Photoshop) to the Web. I recommend it for anyone who already knows basic image manipulation.
Rating: 4
Summary: Absolutely Beautiful Book
Comment: I'm not exactly a novice at graphic development, but my skills are not exactly professional, either. This book is great for showing you how to do things in Photoshop (and ImageReady).
I do think the order of programs should be reversed in the title header; this is not really a Photoshop book. It's more of a "Photoshop for the web" book.
Highly recommend it.
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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: Dreamweaver 3 Hands-On-Training (2nd Edition) by Lynda Weinman, Garo Green ISBN: 0201702762 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 12 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Photoshop 5 & 5.5 Artistry (OTHER NEW RIDERS) by Barry Haynes, Wendy Crumpler ISBN: 0735709947 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 5.5 and Illustrator(R) 8.0 Advanced Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team, Adobe Creative Team ISBN: 020165900X Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 27 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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