* Picks up where the classic Photoshop 7 Bible (0-7645-3694-X) ends, with bonus color pages and topics for highend users * Graphic artists and Web designers will flock to this special Bible edition-a peerless professional resource from a bestselling Photoshop guru * Includes 320 color pages of exciting images and instruction for the experienced user * Provides expanded coverage of advanced topics such as creating and optimizing Web graphics, using filters, convolution kernels and displacement maps, actions and batch processing, ImageReady, and more
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Photoshop 7 Bible:
Well structure for the professional or novice. You'll find yourself looking trough it every chance you get.
I love his human side of technology:
I must say, as much as this book takes VERY LONG to get through, because I have to stop, try the stuff out myself and really try to understand it, I find myself motivated by Deke's humor. As much as he contradicts himself after saying that he'll be concise in the beginning but half the time he's talking nonsense (funny nonsense that is), you can't blame him. That's his style after all! I have found myself loving the book because I'm always curios to see what silly thing he's going to say next? I love it how... more info
Use this as a reference book once you already know PS:
This book describes the fine intricacies of all the tools, the filters and the features of Photoshop. Where other books lead you through lessons and tell you to set X tool preference to Y, and you may happily use the Y preference for years without even knowing there is also a Z preference, this book explains all the preferences for all the tools and gives illustrated examples of what the various settings produce. I wanted to force myself to sit down and read this thing cover to cover to get an in-depth... more info
I'm still a beginner but I love this book:
Those who criticized this book as being a poor choice for beginners were unfair. (Why did they buy the Professional Version anyway?) Teaching those first steps to people who are not too familiar with computers in general is a book in itself. This book is perfect for anyone who has mastered even the most basic steps and wants to move far, far beyond.
I was first exposed to Photoshop only a few weeks ago and after about 2 days of learning the basics using a popular beginner's manual found that the "how to"... more info
