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by Scott Kelby (Author)

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: New Riders; 1st edition (1 May 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0735712379
ISBN-13: 978-0735712379
Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 20.3 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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If you're the kind of person who never takes the stairs (even for one floor) when there's a lift, loves filter coffee, but always makes instant and never eats their crusts, then Photoshop 7 Down & Dirty Tricks is the Photoshop book for you.

Scott Kelby shows you how to create all those visually stunning effects you see, get excited about and want to emulate, before coming back down to earth and saying to yourself, "that would take far too long", or "I just don't have the skill/talent/knowledge..." And here's the good bit--it's not difficult or time consuming and anyone can do it, even if the only thing you've ever done in Photoshop 7 is spend 10 minutes making your boss look absurd with the liquefy tool.

The effects are explained in four to six easy-to-follow plain-English steps, accompanied by colour screen grab. If you've been impressed by a particular technique--Apple's Aqua-gel effect buttons and type, distressed type, metal effects, water drops, TV scan lines, texture mapping--there's a good chance you'll find something like it in these pages.

There are a few more involved projects, a single-image montage, movie poster and 3-D packaging and an entire chapter is devoted to producing a high-tech interface of the kind that has proliferated on the Web in the last couple of years.

Scott's boundless Photoshop knowledge, friendly style and an abundance of quick tips--one on every page--keep the pace moving fast. If you want to produce stunning effects such as these, but don't have the time to make a decent cup of coffee Photoshop 7 Down & Dirty Tricks is instant gratification. --Ken McMahon

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Updated for the latest version of Photoshop, Photoshop 7 Down & Dirty Tricks is packed cover to cover with step-by-step tutorials on the coolest Photoshop 7 effects. The book is not another rehash of masking, pixels, and file formats or resolution--it's nothing but the cool stuff that will make your client's (or boss's) jaw drop.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Great for beginners, poor for more advanced users, 25 Jan 2003

By	CodE-E (Vienna, Austria) - See all my reviews

I bought this book because I thought it would teach me some l33t things about Photoshop 7 which one doesn't find on every Photoshop tutorial site on the Internet.

Unfortunately, it didn't. There are tutorials on typography, interface design, image manipulation and enhancement etc. everywhere on the Internet which are just as good, if not even better, as the ones in this book.

The tutorials in "Photoshop 7 Down & Dirty Tricks" are clear, easy to understand and well illustrated. The only other PS book I have is "Photoshop 6 WOW Book", which did teach me quite a lot of new stuff, but definitely wasn't as easy to understand as this book.

If you are an advanced Photoshop users, don't get this book, as you most probably won't learn anything new. However, if you are a beginner, and you prefer having your resources on paper than on your screen, or if you don't want to search the web for tutorials and compile a collection of them, then I do recommend this book. If I would be a beginner, I would probably give this book 4/5 stars. From my perspective as a more advanced user, I only gave it 3/5.

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect guide for new and experienced Photoshoppers...., 29 Oct 2002

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I have been using Photoshop from v3 and I thought I was a competent user. This book has opened a whole new Photoshop world for me - Alien Skin not required!
Take a look at the finished product then follow the step by step instructions, adapting for your own needs along the way, and you have some pretty hot graphics for web or publishing.
This is not a Photoshop manual but does cover keyboard shortcuts and some complicated techniques that encourage further experimentation with the bundled tools.
New to Photoshop? This is the book to start with.
Experienced user? Still worth having - you're bound to find a mass of new techniques in there!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent guide, 26 Jun 2002

By	Mr L Peck (Pershore, Worcestershire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This is a great book! The examples cover a very broad scope of instances where they may be applied. Even as a complete novice to Photoshop 7 (like me) the reader will be able to achieve the effects demonstrated by Scott, some of which are very dramatic indeed. It is not always obvious why some of the steps in the examples do what they do, so it can take several attempts to apply a technique to ones own work to achieve the desired result, but that's all part of learning how to use Photoshop, I guess. I noticed that in some of the examples that there are some omissions and/or inaccuracies in the list of instructions. I am not sure if this is intentional but it certainly caused me to study harder to try to understand exactly what was supposed to be happening at each step of the process, so intentional or not I felt I learned more by their existence. Another nice feature of this book is that it does not need to be read from beginning to end before any of the techniques can be used, a reader can just flick through the book till he gets to the effect he wants and just follow the instructions.

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