New Masters of Photoshop

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Summary: New Masters of Photoshop
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As the name implies, New Masters of Photoshop is a prolific resource that combines the unique talents and techniques of 19 modern masters of Photoshop.

The book contains over 500 full-color pages and is beautifully organized, making it as engaging as it is informative. New Masters of Photoshop is not a manual: it will not teach you how to use Photoshop. It will, however, engage you, inspire you and motivate you. The book is also accompanied by a CD that contains interviews, source files and unflattened Photoshop documents.

Even after you've read the entire book, tried all the tutorials and mastered all the techniques, you'll still find it to be a tireless repository of creative ideas and a great source of inspiration.

This is the book that the Photoshop community has been waiting for! If you buy just one book this year, make it the New Masters of Photoshop.

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Summary: Useful
Review: Good designers + Different style from other photoshop books + useful tutorial. I'm happy with it.

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Summary: this book is awesome
Review: Got to hand to Friendsofed.com they did a good job on this book
well most of it was usefull and very interesting to look at and to try out on your own The best chapter would be about Jens Magnus from chapter3.net and designgraphik.com thanks for your unflataned .psd files ;)

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Summary: BS
Review: I could write a book on how bad this book is. It REALLY is not worth it. It would be a better deal to buy your neighbours garbage.
Basically, many of the images seem like they were pulled off the web and are therefore BAD (duh.) The text is poorly formatted and written. The designers mumble to an excrutiating level (like a bad high school essay.) Oh and the cd that accompanies it, why is it sooooooo useless?
I need to go find maalox.

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Summary: inspirational
Review: ignore anyone who said the people in this book are not masters...people like jens karlsson, mike cina, and derek lea produce some beautifully inspiring art in photoshop and this book is a great guide for anyone seeking a profession or hobby involving the best use of photoshop possible. it is not meant to teach you photoshop, rather, to boost those who know photoshop to push its limits and expand their talents. amazing book, totally worth the money. i spent $[money] on it at borders and dont regret spending that much at all. go out and get this.

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Summary: It's more than just a showcase for Photoshop artists...
Review: In-depth interviews with several Photoshop artists, well-planned tutorials and graphical screen grabs, and source-packed CD-ROM are just but a few of the features this great book offers. I have just scratched the surface, and I am very pleased with purchasing this book. The artists share what and who influence their work in detail, and share their views on how they bring their own voice to their work. I buy many books on Photoshop, and this has to be one of the most useful and inspiring books on Photoshop. Worth every cent.

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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: The Friends of Ed books on Flash are excellent, but this one is a total dud. These people are not even remotely "masters". The tutorials are impossible to follow, and the artwork is second rate.

There is endless blah-blah-blah by each arist talking about him/herself that has nothing whatsoever to do with Photoshop.

The two exceptions are Derek Lea and Gavin Cromhout who do a creditable job of offering useful instruction and interesting art.

Several of the others in this book are not only not masters, they seem to barely know how to use the application. Save your money for a book with real content.

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Summary: Get It
Review: There is really not much to add to the positive comments already posted. This book really is extremely useful. Whatever level you are you can find some inspiration here. There is an assumption you have an intermediate-level knowledge of the app, but that's ok, cos even if you dont you can just pick up your manual/power PS up and work it out. The key to this book is its insight into the processes of seasoned, acclaimed, professionals. If you aint any of those right now, or even if you are, you will benefit from this book.

NB - I'd drop it a half-point as the CD is pretty useless. But that would be unfair - think of the CD as a candy accompanyment. The book is worth its weight alone.

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Summary: Cool Book!
Review: This book is great and will give you inspiration for new ideas.

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Summary: great
Review: this book is great for inspiration and to find out "how they did that"!!!