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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS2 in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself)
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by Carla Rose
Sales Rank: 493553
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Discount: 27 %
$9.39
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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Sams; 3rd edition May 23, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672327554
ISBN-13: 978-0672327551
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.9 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Book Description
Create works of art using your computer, Adobe Photoshop CS 2 and Sams Teach Yourself Photoshop CS 2 in 24 Hours. Learn the basics of Photoshop with a minimum of jargon from market-leading author, Carla Rose. Her conversational, friendly approach will make Photoshop seem less intimidating and more manageable to learn. With Carla's help, you will learn to: - Select color modes
- Use paintbrushes and art tools
- Use layers, masks and paths
- Use artistic filters
- Apply special effects to pictures
- Enhance and repair photos
Master the world's leading image editing and manipulation tool with this accessible yet detailed, step-by-step tutorial.
Download Description
Adobe Photoshop is the world's leading image manipulation software. Used by both professional and amateur graphic designers, it is the de facto standard for print and Web publishing. Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop in 24 Hours, Third Edition, is an easily accessible tutorial that uses a friendly, conversational approach to teach readers the basics. Photoshop is an immense tool and can be intimidating for the beginning user, but the book makes it easy to learn the basic techniques involved in creating and manipulating images with Photoshop.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Well, maybe this is not the worst PS CS2 book, since I haven't read all books available on this subject. But I have to say it is a pretty boring one. The authors throw out lots of conceptual stuff before really going into each topic covered, maybe good for pros, but definitely a disaster for beginners. I am not sure what kind of readers the authors had in their minds when wrote the book. Beginners? then the book is sometimes very confusing for a novice without much experience on PS; pros? the whole book talks about very basic stuff not interesting to anyone who has used PS for a while. Overall, the book is very boring and somewhat difficult to follow. If you check out the earlier editions in this series (teach yourself PS in 24 hrs), you'll find out they didn't get a decent feedback except for some comments from the so called Adobe Certified Experts saying 'this is really good'. Well, being Certified Experts only means you have good skills in using PS. When it comes to judging a book, I'd rather trust readers like myself. Actually, I have gone through reviews of most PS (7, CS and CS2) books I could find on Amazon. You know what? This series is probably the only one which got bad reviews consistently. So, think again before you pull out your credit card. By the way, I give the bad rating not because I spent money on the book. Fortunately I borrowed it after I got the software. Instead, I bought books by Martin Evening, Deke McClelland (the Bible) and Jack Davis (wow book). I am also waiting for the Real World PS CS2 coming out. I think all those are much better than this one.
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