BOOK REVIEW - Adobe Photoshop cs Down & Dirty Tricks
BOOK REVIEW - Adobe Photoshop cs Down & Dirty Tricks
- Subject: BOOK REVIEW - Adobe Photoshop cs Down & Dirty Tricks
- From: Victoria Maciulski <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:52:59 -0800
Adobe Photoshop cs Down & Dirty Tricks
By Scott Kelby
ISBN: 0735713537
336 pages
$39.99
Here is another great book from the legendary Scott Kelby,
Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User Magazine. For those of you who bought
his Photoshop 7 Down & Dirty Tricks, this is not a repeat. He says he
trashed every technique from the Photoshop 7 version and started from
scratch with this one.
I really like the layout of it. Its like two books in one. The pages
are white with tan vertical strips almost two inches wide. In the white
sections are the step-by-step, how-to instructions, with plenty of
images that show the progress of each step. The tan sidebars contain
Quick Tips.
I love the one on page 74. It says, Want some cool metal gradients?
Youve already got em! Then it goes on to explain how to access them.
There are some really cool lessons, such as the one on popping out of a
photo on page 23, Edge Collage technique on page 39, the one on making
a filmstrip template on page 192, and the one on how to make a photo
cube on page 230. There are multiple lessons on different 3-D effects,
lots of cool type effects, and Advertising effects, like fancy product
shot backgrounds, adding a window to another place and dividing a photo
into puzzle pieces.
This book is fine for beginners, as the first time he has you do a new
task, like create a layer, he tells in detail how to do it. But he
doesnt tell you how to do it in every lesson, so the more advanced
folks wont get bogged down and bored. And the Quick Tips in the
sidebars alone are worth the price of the book.
) copyright 2004 Victoria Maciulski, Newsletter Editor, Conejo Ventura
Mac User Group (CVMUG)
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