- Paperback: 576 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (25 Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201713098
- ISBN-13: 978-0201713091
- Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 17.8 x 2.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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- #22 in Books > Computers & Internet > Digital Photography > By Series > Visual QuickStart Guides
- #27 in Books > Computers & Internet > Software & Graphics > Desktop Publishing > Macintosh
- #71 in Books > Computers & Internet > New to Computing > Graphics & Publishing > Desktop Publishing
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The authors of Photoshop 6 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide have many years' experience in writing, and their experience shows. This latest volume is one of the longest QuickStart Guides (as befits such a complex application), each page chock-full of screen shots of images, palettes, toolbars, and option panels. Photoshop's work environment has changed significantly since version 5.5, having added, for example, a new options bar. Right off, this guide maps out the landscape, with callouts and captions that define each and every item you might see when Photoshop is running. A "6.0!" icon marks every new item.
The strength of all QuickStart Guides is their abundance of black-and-white screen shots laid out in one column on the page, and the step-by-step instructions and concise explanations that appear on the adjacent column. These are not tutorials that simulate a classroom experience by taking one project though many stages (although sample images are shown). Rather, this book is more like a fix-it manual--you have a problem in your own work, you look up the appropriate keywords in the index, and then you apply the steps to work out a solution.
As would be expected, the book takes you through all the many parts of Photoshop, from pixel basics, like resolution, to selections, layers, history, masks, paths, type, filters, actions, and preparing images for print or Web. Also covered is using ImageReady to optimize images for the Web and make slices, rollovers, and animations. Features that are new to ImageReady 3.0 are also highlighted with a "6.0!" icon, making it easy to find just those topics that will be new to readers already comfortable in version 5.5. There's also a lengthy list of keyboard shortcuts for both platforms, followed by an impressively detailed index. --Angelynn Grant
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Adobe Photoshop is the application of choice for digital image manipulation. However, its armada of palettes and tool bars can be intimidating to Photoshop newcomers. Photoshop X for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide gives users an accessible, how-to reference guide to basic photo editing, manipulation, optimization, and correction techniques, all referencing the latest release of Photoshop. Beginners don't need to wander through menus or read a great deal of text when using this guide. Extensive pictures and captions reassure them that they are in the correct dialog box, popup menu, or entry field as they do their work. Used as a standard textbook in countless classrooms and as a desktop reference by print and Web graphics professionals everywhere, this is a book that explains Photoshop techniques clearly and quickly.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Very clearly and systematically laid out, amply illustrated for all the main points of the program. You will not need any other book for Photoshop.. more useful than the original manual.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This books contains most of the common creative activities that you perform with Photoshop. It tells you how to do them, not why you would do them. Throughout it uses the Mac user interface, which can be confusing for a Windows user. I used it to learn Photoshop Elements as there weren't any Elements specific books when I bought it (apart from the User Manual that is). Plenty of good examples and some colour pages by similar artists. A useful book with plenty of pages, well written and put together at a good price. I'm happy to recommend it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I found this book extremeley helpful to me, as i had no prior experience in photoshop. It helped me to feel confident in dealing with, and charging clients, as i now had the knowledge.
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