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Hacking Photoshop CS2
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by Shangara Singh
Sales Rank: 155970
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List Price: $29.99
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Paperback: 454 pages
Publisher: Wiley October 21, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764597884
ISBN-13: 978-0764597886
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
Product Review
"…newcomers could benefit from some of the tips." (Advanced Photoshop, October 2006)
Book Description
This is absolutely the ultimate guide to hacking Adobe’s wildly popular graphics software, written by an Adobe Certified professional photographer and designer.
This is serious, down and dirty, tweaking – blowing away the default settings, customizing appearance, optimizing performance, customizing tools and offering readers total control over Photoshop like never before. With these 300+ hacks, readers will find their work with Photoshop faster and easier than ever.
Roll up your sleeves, and dive into these hacks including: - Faster Photoshop startup
- Customizing the Photoshop interface
- Hacking Photoshop’s Tools
- Access hidden dialog buttons
- Hacks for Masks, Layers, Paths, Curves and Selections
- Camera Raw tricks
and so much more.
Customer Reviews & Comments
With a title like "Hacking Photoshop" you'd expect the book to have all sorts of hidden, undocumented secrets to customizing Photoshop. Sadly, this isn't the case. A more appropriate title might be "Using Photoshop" because I'm not sure where there is any sort of "hacking" involved. This book focuses mostly on settings and using tools. For example, there is a whole chapter on making selections and using masks. The chapter is called "Hacking Masks" - but it doesn't break any ground or shed new light on masks. There are some useful tips here and there, the most helpful chapter may be the very first one, which points out the preferences to adjust in order to make Photoshop perform better on your machine. While helpful, these settings are hardly unheard of or undocumented. I'm not sure who this book is for. It doesn't offer any tips on creating images, so I can't see a beginner using it. The techniques are something any intermediate user already knows, so I can't see them using it either. The full color printing is nice, I just think this book misses the mark by not being a complete reference guide.
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