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The Photoshop 4 Wow! Book: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Adobe Photoshop 4 : Windows...
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by Linnea Dayton and Jack Davis
Sales Rank: 1382677
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$0.15
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Paperback: 329 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press; Pap/Cdr edition January 26, 1998
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201688573
ISBN-13: 978-0201688573
Product Dimensions:
9.3 x 7.6 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Product Review
If you're looking for guidance on creating excellent effects in Photoshop 4.0, this is a great book to get. As with a lot of other Photoshop books, The Photoshop 4 Wow! Book teaches you how to paint; use filters; create special effects; manage selections and layers; correct photos; create montages and collages; work with Illustrator and Photoshop together; and output your work for 3-D, multimedia, and Web applications. But here, each chapter is broken down into discrete tips, and each tip is highlighted on one, two, or three well-laid out, full-color pages, so it's easy to find exactly what you need. For example, you might jump from the tip on "using images to make selections" in the second chapter ("Selections, Masks, Layers, and Channels") to "chiseling" in the eighth chapter ("Graphics Special Effects").
Everyone from beginner to advanced users can glean plenty from this book. The initial chapters are pretty basic, offering an introduction to Photoshop's interface and various digital-imaging and memory-management issues. Besides lots of screen shots you also get thorough instruction, so there's not much room for messing up or being led astray. At the same time, most of the tips include suggestions for producing your own variations on the artwork presented. Galleries show artwork produced by several Photoshop experts, along with explanations of how each artist produced his or her effects.
The bundled CD-ROM has stock photos; demo versions of filter software; demo versions of Adobe packages, such as Photoshop PageMaker, Premiere, and Illustrator; and ready-made Actions (Photoshop's batch processes) that run special effects. There's also a Macintosh edition of this book, which is identical except for keyboard commands and the platform-specific advice in the first chapter.
Book Description
This hands-on guide provides "click and drag" presentations of painterly, photorealistic, and special effects techniques. Hundreds of time-and work-saving tips are covered as well. An all-new chapter on Web graphics and techniques explores the special considerations that this new medium entails. The book is heavily illustrated throughout showing real-life projects created by top Photoshop artists. The book's CD-ROM is cross-platform, and contains new filters, photos, work sessions, and other goodies. Pevious editions of the book have won top honors in two prestigious competitionss tnd has become the top-selling Photoshop book (238,000 currently in print) .
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book provides examples of how to do certain special effects. It was definitely more of a "tips and tricks" book than it was a learning resource. Just follow the steps, and go "WOW" just like the title. It doesn't really explain in detail how the trick was done and why you're doing a certain step. Most photoshop gurus will just scoff at this book, and most newbies will walk away amazed, but no smarter about photoshop than before they read it. The latter portions of the book was nothing more than a summary of the different photoshop filters found in commercial filter packages. I question why thoese filters were even in the book; it seemed like advertising that does not benefit the readers.
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