Photoshop Elements 7: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals) by Barbara Brundage
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Book Reviews of Photoshop Elements 7: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals)
Book Review: Missing Manual is Still Missing
Summary: 2 Stars
Photoshop Elements 7: The Missing Manual
1-It's full of interesting information about all the capabilities and functions.
2-Does it instruct about how to go step by step to perform functions?
3-Can you go to an index of "how do I do this"?
Interesting book but it's very little help to the first time user. No real screenshots.
No display list of the drop down menus and " where you must be" to NOT have them grayed-out.
Answer to 2 and 3 is NO!
I'm going to have to read the WHOLE book first to be able to really run the software. Ridiculous!I may look for a Photoshop 7 Elements for Dummies if one is available.
Sorry to say but it's the least useful software manual since I began PC computing in 1982!
Guess I'm too dumb to use computers.
Book Review: review Missing Manual for Photoshop Elements
Summary: 2 Stars
There must be better books around to learn Photoshop Elements. The pictures are HORRIBLE. There's a ton of information, but doesn't make learning the program any easier- ie, "you can fix an amazing array of problems simply by adjusting the level of each color channel".. great, but HOW do I do this? It never really tells you how to do anything. It just drones on and on about how great everything is. I took another book out of the library that told WHY you might want to do certain things, and tried to use the Missing Manual to bring me step by step through the processes to get the saught after result--- no luck. I've read the book cover to cover and I still don't know as much as I need to to really get going with any skill. I think I have to take a class to learn what I want to be able to acheive with Elements, this book stinks.Book Review: Not for Sequential Learners
Summary: 2 Stars
I am a very sequential thinker that moves from specific to general. I like step-by-step instructions that allow me to complete specific tasks and thereby over time gain a general understanding. This book moves from the general to the specific. It presents a series of overviews explaining what the program can do and covers all the options before diving into specifics. Even the specific step-by-step instructions are disjointed and seldom run from start to finish. The reader must jump about the book in order to patch together a complete process.
If you learn by moving sequentially through examples, I think you will prefer a book like Scott Kelby's Photoshop Elements 7 Book.
Book Review: Photoshop Elements 7 Review
Summary: 2 Stars
Previously I had only used Photodeluxe. Photoshop Elements 7 is considerable much more difficult to understand. One must plan on a lot of more study to understand this program. So far I have not had the time to do it justice and I wonder if I ever will. There are a few things I don't like about it.
a) The straightening device is not easy to understand. Picasa 3 straightening device is much easier to use.
b) The clone or blemish stick is not nearly as good as the old Photodeluxe.
I DO LIKE the cropping system where it automatically goes to right ratio. That is as far as I've got. MEMorrison
Book Review: It's a manual
Summary: 2 Stars
Must say I am pretty disappointed with this book. It does read as a manual and, honestly, given the level of explanations, I'd rather read the actual help file in the software - it has hyperlinks. Print quality is pretty poor for a book that teaches you how to work with pictures. So, if you are looking for a book that just covers the help file in paper format, get it, it will cover that task admirably. If you want the ease of learning of Photoshop Elements, or pick up some tricks of the trade, it's not going to help you.