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Adobe Photoshop CS Artistry
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Author: Barry Haynes, Wendy Crumpler
List Price: $55.00
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ISBN: 073571374X
Publisher: New Riders (20 January, 2004)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 2,695
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Great start for Photoshop
As a Photoshop newbie this book is a clear winner. The coverage of the software is comprehensive; it makes excellent use of color illustrations (surprisingly many don't) and the exercises are well chosen. First of all this is not a PS cookbook. Cookbooks have their place and can be excellent resources. This book has a nice balance of discussion, what's what in PS and some exercises. There are numerous small examples about how to use Levels, Curves etc, but the serious exercises don't start until chapter 18. As I said... comprehensive and well balanced. Heartily recommended!Why not 5 stars? The book need some serious editing. There is too much carried along about how things were done in previous versions, what features were added when, etc. Get rid of it. This is a CS book, not a history of PS. Use the extra space for better layout and bigger fonts. The pages are so crowded for space as to be hard to read. Margins are used for the numerous screen shots, but when a page has none, fill the white space. These are editing criticisms and should not deter the reader from buying the book!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Don't buy this book if you already own the previous version
If you want an update to CS, then this book has very little new. The author does not seem to have much experience using much of CS's new tools like RAW conversion or the Lens Blur filter. The Lens Blur filter is only mentioned in the intro of the book. Barry, why do you put out a new version of your book when you still seem to have very little insight into using the new features of CS? Were you just trying to be the first one on the block with a new Photoshop CS book? Shame on you! The bottom line is: Save your money if you own the previous version of this book. If you want to learn how to use the NEW tools in CS, wait for another book like "Real World Photoshop CS" to come out.
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