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Summary: Buy this Book Now!!!
Review: And I thought I was already Photoshop Guru 'til I bought this Book! It gave me tremendous amount of tips and tricks that I would never discover in a lifetime. I'd highly recommend this to anyone who'd want to master the program, and would like to impress people with their graphic manipulations.All-in-all, this is a very nice investment, you can't afford to pass. I would have bought this for any price. Every penny was well spent!
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Summary: Buy this Book Now!!!
Review: And I thought I was already Photoshop Guru 'til I bought this Book! It gave me tremendous amount of tips and tricks that I would never discover in a lifetime. I'd highly recommend this to anyone who'd want to master the program, and would like to impress people with their graphic manipulations. All-in-all, this is a very nice investment, you can't afford to pass. I would have bought this for any price. Every penny was well spent!
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Summary: Great book if you have a solid understanding of PS.
Review: Awesome book im not a begginner, but im not advanced either. The book opened my eyes and was pretty inspiring. Some of he techniques it teached are things you would actually use when designing a image. All in all its a awesome book I highy recommend it to Middle range or higher Photoshop users.
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Summary: Great book if you have a solid understanding of PS.
Review: Awesome book im not a begginner, but im not advanced either. The book opened my eyes and was pretty inspiring. Some of he techniques it teached are things you would actually use when designing a image. All in all its a awesome book I highy recommend it to Middle range or higher Photoshop users.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Being a part time photoshop user of not much more than beginner status I still enjoyed this book. I learned a lot and there is much more in there to grow into.
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Summary: Buy an up-to-date edition
Review: Fine book, but the edition on sale by Amazon is not the current edition. If you own, or intend to buy, Photoshop CS, buy the current edition, ISBN 0240519531. Or, like me, you'll waste time and money buying and returning the wrong edition, then buying the new one somewhere else. Hope this helps.
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Summary: This one is not a keeper
Review: How to cheat in photoshop
First let me state that: This is not a bad book.
I have bought a lot of photoshop books, but I have so much storage place on my shelves, so I have to choose which ones I want to keep, and this one is not a keeper.
It's too basic and at the same time a beginner would be lost trying to complete the images!
The sub title of this book is: The art of creating Photorealistic Montages. I guess that if you want to achieve his style (Steve Caplin), maybe this book is for you. But Steve's images are far from realistic. They look like photomontages "Kitschy" style!
You are never going to achieve realistic montage using quickmask and a brush to draw a mask. If you want to learn how to draw a mask, buy a Deke McClelland book (if you are serious with photoshop buy Deke's DVDs).
Steve is overusing the Burn & Dodge tool and I am not sure that he knows what the displacement map is.
Not a bad book but not a good one.
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Summary: This book is excellent!
Review: I must say that this book is definitely one of the best Photoshop advice books I have see. Steve Caplin is very thorough and addresses topics everyone can relate to. Many questions of mine about how to produce clean edges, make perfect selections, and wrap text were presented very straight-forward. There is so much content in this book, along with the HOT TIPS in the margins of about every page.
At the 36.99 list price, no Photshop user should be without it.....
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Summary: The Best
Review: I was surprised to see a book sensibly written and illustrated for a change. Usually these books are interesting enough to buy but then after you sit down and try to follow the lessons they're either boring or worse, you have to repeat an operation ten times to find out what the author 'meant' to say. This book is not the case, this book is exciting and very well presented so that you can glide through it with ease without getting shrouded in that dull envelope of boring figuring-out repetitiveness that other books and lessons grind you down with. I was, actually, quite disliking the cover and not liking the taste of the illustrations used in the lessons, oddly enough. I would have preferred pictures for the lessons more to my liking, even the coffee cup looks unappetizing, but for the purpose of the lesson its perfectly fine. What makes this book better is that he explains how to use the pen tool simply and efficiently in little cartoon box examples on two pages before you put it to use on the coffee cup. That is what makes this book different. He recognizes that you needed something about the tool AMPLIFIED before you started the lesson, THE PEN TOOL. I read that part at the book store downtown and went home and tried it and realized I needed the lesson as well, .... It would be difficult to follow if one were unfamiliar with PhotoShop, so I would take a 'one-day' course on PhotoShop if necessary to get up to speed for this book, this is comfortable for intermediate level users. After all, you would have to know it first, certainly, before you attempted to cheat, wouldn't you? Can't cheat at cards unless you know how to play cards, right? I'm waiting for the Cheat Illustrator book now. Buy it, you won't regret it.
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Summary: The Best
Review: I was surprised to see a book sensibly written and illustrated for a change. Usually these books are interesting enough to buy but then after you sit down and try to follow the lessons they're either boring or worse, you have to repeat an operation ten times to find out what the author 'meant' to say. This book is not the case, this book is exciting and very well presented so that you can glide through it with ease without getting shrouded in that dull envelope of boring figuring-out repetitiveness that other books and lessons grind you down with. I was, actually, quite disliking the cover and not liking the taste of the illustrations used in the lessons, oddly enough. I would have preferred pictures for the lessons more to my liking, even the coffee cup looks unappetizing, but for the purpose of the lesson its perfectly fine. What makes this book better is that he explains how to use the pen tool simply and efficiently in little cartoon box examples on two pages before you put it to use on the coffee cup. That is what makes this book different. He recognizes that you needed something about the tool AMPLIFIED before you started the lesson, THE PEN TOOL. I read that part at the book store downtown and went home and tried it and realized I needed the lesson as well, .... It would be difficult to follow if one were unfamiliar with PhotoShop, so I would take a 'one-day' course on PhotoShop if necessary to get up to speed for this book, this is comfortable for intermediate level users. After all, you would have to know it first, certainly, before you attempted to cheat, wouldn't you? Can't cheat at cards unless you know how to play cards, right? I'm waiting for the Cheat Illustrator book now. Buy it, you won't regret it.
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