Customer Review: Really good book, follows workflow and takes you through all the steps from set up to advanced features. So far any questions have been answered by this book. I highly recommend this book.
Customer Review: I have only used the book a few times, but things are easy to find, easy to read, easy to follow. There is a website for your comfort where you can go to get help and more information. Love the Book. I have often bought books for Elements, this one is the best.
Customer Review: Fantastic book for digital photographers with a beginner to intermediate understanding of photoshop. Gives a ton of great pointers on how to make your shots look good. Covers topics from special effects, to color correction (great work flow for amateur color correction process), resizing... more info
Customer Review: Every 18 months Adobe issues a new version of Photoshop. Every 18 months Ben Willmore produces a new version of "Up to Speed", describing the new features of the newest version of Photoshop. Every 18 months I write a review saying that, for experienced Photoshop users, upgrading from the prior... more info
Customer Review: This book did not highlight the new features in CS4 enough. It primarily was a book on how to use photoshop which I am already familiar with.
Customer Review: My college class uses this book.
The instructions, overall are good, but the tool icons are way too small to identify easily .
Some instructions will tell you to close such a tool out of the blue, but the instruction to open it was never given in the first place. Trying to see what the... more info
Customer Review: I own an Imac. I've found this book, especially instructions related to printing, close to useless. Why is this so? Because the book is essentially designed for PC users, and details that a Mac user would need are offered as an afterthought. Which is to say they're cursory, poorly organized and... more info
Customer Review: The book is all it is advertised to be. If read carefully, one can be doing usable work with Photoshop CS3 or 4 within half and hour. I consider this a good addition to my reference materials.