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Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills (Photography Essential Skills) Author: Mark Galer, Philip Andrews $34.25 |
Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills (Photography Essential Skills) |
Editorial Review:
An inspirational and user-friendly guide to creative image editing, this book provides direction for photographers and designers alike who have ventured into the realm of the 'digital darkroom.' Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills offers a progressive curriculum to guide you through Photoshop with a series of clear, step-by-step projects designed to place knowledge into a practical context. You will build a useful and essential set of skills for creative and professional image editing and, whether you simply want to retouch an image, create a glamour makeover or create a highly sophisticated montage - this book will give you the essential skills to complete the work to a professional standard.
The accompanying CD-ROM and website, www.photoshopessentialskills.com, offer additional teaching and learning support materials which form a library of indispensable supporting resources including: All of the images used in the text * Over four hours of QuickTime movie tutorials to support the practical projects * A range of presets (including layer styles, curves, shapes and gradients) * Camera RAW files * Free extra chapters in e-book form.
* Packed with beautiful color images and covering Photoshop 7.0 up to CS2
* Includes practical projects to put theoretical knowledge into a creative context
* CD-ROM and website, www.photoshopessentialskills.com, offer additional teaching and learning support materials
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
Photoshop CS2 Essential Skills: 
This is such an excellent "basic and beyond" book for this Photoshop Program. Only problem is that it needs to be about twice as long. Anytime Mark Galer and/or Philip Andrews authors a book--BUY IT. Their books are always to the point and understandable
the date of the book arrival: 
the date of arrival should be make it more clearly coz last time I thought the book will arrive on 21st Aug but it actually comes on 8th Aug it make me feel nervous coz last time I need to use the book quite urgent.
Review CS2 essential Skills:
As an amateur that has spent countless hours slaving over graphics hobbying, I can say this book has extreme value for me. In spite of instances wherein I'll nod my head and babble "yeah, yeah, I know, I know,..." it does present items which I did not know and that have had a direct and positive impact on what I do. Thorough industry gurus may not see any use for it, but the rest of the planet should have a copy and actually read then use the thing. What I appreciate most of all is the attitude. I detest...more info
spotty instructional quality: 
From a designers perspective, what a great book-looks fabulous. From an instructors point of view, well it can be frustrating to use. The editor didn't catch many ambigous sentences and the editor needs to hire an instructor with strong teaching skills to review and revamp the instructions in this book. For example, if a task requires 5 steps, the book will often only mention 1,2,5. An example of a ambigous sentence: "Duplicate the layer you are working before starting the extraction process as the...more info
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