Customer Review: This book has helped me alot, as I'm a student at Tri-C college and we have Apple computers and I have Vista at home and there's a vast difference in the operation systems for photography, although they bring you to the same results.
Customer Review: I am taking a series of courses on the Adobe CS3 design programs. These books are the required texts. I am extremely pleased with the content and support they provide for me to learn the programs. They are a mix between "techbook" and "textbook" - they are NOT as dry as other technical... more info
Customer Review: The Visual Quickstart Guide for QuarkXPress 7 is an excellent manual. I recommend it for folks at all levels of expertise.QuarkXPress 7 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Customer Review: This is voluminous, but quantity does not make up for quality. Some chapters are sketchy, so I found much better tutorials on the net, and in other books. Shouldn't have to be this way. I'm glad I'm used to working with Photoshop, to do ok with the book. IF I was getting one or two books... more info
Customer Review: This volume made a great addition to the first Visual quickstart guide. Its concise, picture-oriented style makes for easy learning. It has some great tips and ideas for usage. It also has some great recipes to try and goes through them step by step.
Customer Review: In learning any complex program, I always order at least two training manuals. The reason is a simple one that I've learned over the years - If you don't understand a particular explanation by one author, there's a good chance the other writer will cover the topic so you can figure it out. I have a... more info
Customer Review: i bought this book as a recommended text for a beginner's course on photoshop. the first time i cracked it open, i was trying to get a jump on my 2nd or 3rd class, and i was reviewing "how to draw a path using the pen tool." the instructions in the book were so thoroughly useless to me, they may as... more info