Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks
by Scott Kelby
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Author: Scott KelbyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-15
ISBN: 0321563174
Number of pages: 360
Publisher: Peachpit Press
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- Adobe Photoshop CS4: Mastering Camera Raw DVD
- Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Boxed Set, Volumes 1, 2, and 3
- The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers
Book Reviews of Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks
Book Review: Some reviewers should just watch TV instead
Summary: 5 Stars
I usually don't trash other reviewers, but this time some of them wrote reviews that really annoy me.
If you bought a wrench and used it to fix a nail sticking out of a dresser, but found it didn't work, would you blame the wrench? Would you write a review saying what a lousy wrench it is? Or, would you quietly return it and get a hammer instead? It seems to me that several "reviewers" here are blaming the wrench!
As another example, if you like mysteries and buy a romance book by the same author, it isn't fair to say that the romance title is a bad mystery.
When the covers of a book clearly describe what it is about and who it is for, and the editorial review on this page says the same thing but someone buys it withoug reading any of that, hoping for totally different content, it isn't fair to blame the author. Giving a 1-star review says more about the incompetence of the reviewer that it will ever say about the book. Unfortunately (and unfairly) it kills the book's average review. This book deserves a 5-star average. It meets and exceeds the needs of its audience. If you're not in that audience that's OK; it means the book isn't for you, not that it is a bad book.
The covers say that this book is about special effects. Want to learn how to make type appear on fire, look here. Want to figure out how to make a special layout or design, then this book will show you how to do it in photoshop. Kelby has been teaching this stuff for years, both in books, on tours and online. Naturally, that's all written in Kelby's humorous, self-deprecating style and it makes learning fun. It is yet another great book from one of the industry's best authors.
The fact that this author has also written many best-selling books about camera raw, workflow and sharpening, and has built a loyal following for such content is great. If that's what you need, then run to get one of those titles.
However, if you've bought several of his "better pictures" books and liked them but bought this one without reading the editorial material and were then disappointed that is wasn't for you, just return it quietly and tell the bookseller "my mistake". Don't make an online fool of yourself by telling everyone you can't tell the difference between a wrench and a hammer.
Summary of Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks
UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF THE HOTTEST TRICKS, AND MOST REQUESTED PHOTOSHOP EFFECTS IN ONE AMAZING BOOK!Scott Kelby, co-host of Photoshop User TV and the world?s #1 bestselling Photoshop author, is back to unlock the secrets of an amazing new collection of the latest eye-popping, jaw-dropping, Photoshop special effects?the same kind that made Scott?s previous editions of this book one of the top selling Photoshop books in history.
You?ll learn some of the most closely guarded Photoshop CS4 special effects?the same ones you see on TV, in magazines, and on the Web. Using Scott?s simple step-by-step method, with hundreds of full-color images, you?ll see exactly how it?s all done. The book is written so clearly, and it is so easy to follow, you?ll immediately be able to create all of these effects yourself. You?ll learn:
? The latest photographic special effects
? How to fake studio shots (you?ll be amazed at how it?s done)
? The latest cutting-edge type effects
? The most popular effects used by big movie studios
? The most-requested advertising effects
? Commercial effects that clients go crazy over!
? The most asked-for current Web effects
? Amazing 3D effects using Photoshop Extended
? Plus loads of effects that look hard, but are easy once you know the secrets
And not only that, but the whole book is packed with creative ideas, layouts, and design techniques that will help you unleash your own creativity. It?s all here, in the only Photoshop book of its kind. You're gonna love it!
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