Customer Review: This book is excellent for beginners and intermediate users,shows you all the tools and how to use them, in a step by step, simple way. This book is expensive but it is worth it.
You will not be guessing your way through Photoshop CS3 if you go through this workbook.
Customer Review: I was teaching myself Illustrator and this is a great beginner's book. Definitely going to be a reference on my shelf. Easy to follow instructions and lessons included with excerpts of skilled designers and outside links to review.
Customer Review: Over the years, I have bought a pile of "How to" books on After Effects,Première Pro, Photoshop and Illustrator and I did not feel any urge to write anything about these books before buying Ms Hartman's Illustrator guide. I liked the writing : unpretentious, simple with a warm tone that... more info
Customer Review: I find this book to be very helpful thus far. As an older Graphic Design student I've noticed many software books are written for a younger crowd. A lot of steps are left out because the author assumes I've learned them in high school. We didn't have computers when I was in high school! This book... more info
Customer Review: I use Adobe After Effects. I needed to get up to speed on basic Illustrator in order to "feed" vector graphics to AE. Although I have only had this book for a short while ... it allowed me to get to that point very quickly. I am finding it fun to read and am astonished by what Illustator CS2 can do.... more info
Customer Review: Good book for beginners. I use it to teach a community college introductory Photoshop Class (along with the Illustrator equivalent). It has exercises for each chapter that are outlined step by step. There are a couple of "design" exercises which provide a more creative opportunity for students... more info
Customer Review: If you are a working professional in this field, much better is Interactive TV Technology & Markets by H.O. Srivastava. If you are a consumer getting your feet wet, some of the WebTV or AOL TV books are a better bet. However, if you enjoy pre-internet-crash style needless boosterism combined... more info