The Photoshop 6 WOW! Book

The Photoshop 6 WOW! Book
by Linnea Dayton, Jack Davis

The Photoshop 6 WOW! Book
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Author: Jack Davis, Linnea Dayton
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-07-12
ISBN: 0201722089
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Peachpit Press

Book Reviews of The Photoshop 6 WOW! Book

Book Review: Still the Best!
Summary: 5 Stars

Jack Davis never ceases to amaze me. He has outdone himself again! I don't think there is a man on the planet that has a more in-depth, and complete knowledge of Photoshop, not even the people who developed the app or the manual writers at Adobe.

I had the opportunity to see Jack at the Photoshop Wow! Seminar for the 5.5 book. His methods of teaching are concise, intelligent, extremely well-thought-out, and easy-to-follow and understand. His pacing was so perfect, no one really lost him at all, even the beginners in the room, yet he intrigued and fascinated the experts. I learned more in a day than I had in my 4 years as a Web Designer.

The Photoshop 6 Wow! Book is a "must have" for anyone who uses Photoshop. Period. Even if you own the 5.5 Wow! Book, you still need this book. Some authors tend to "sell-out" from version update to version update, in an effort to milk the sales of a book, by offering a mildly reworded volume of useless pap. No such practice from Jack! He has extensively expanded upon an already legendary tome. I merely bought the book because I am a fan and wanted to "support the team" regardless of book content. When the book came, I realzied I got more than my money's worth, once again. The layer styles on the CD are alone worth twice the price. The chapter on "painting" will have you buying a Wacom tablet the following day [I did]. He does things that no one ever knew Photoshop could do. The gasps of astonishment in his classes are proof. And no wasted pages. Jack dives right in! Page ONE [1] actually has a useful tip on it! - making star shapes with the Polygon tool. And it's blast into orbit from there on out!

I agree wholeheartedly with the awards - "Most useful Photoshop book" ever - hands down. A vast amount of work went into this book to offer the most brilliant Photoshop book in the world. Maika'i Hana, Jack!

Summary of The Photoshop 6 WOW! Book

Photoshop users of all levels know where to look for cutting-edge examples of Adobe Photoshop at work: The Photoshop Wow! Book. This award-winning Photoshop bestseller, fully updated for version 6, features stunning artwork and time-saving techniques of professional artists who work in Photoshop every day. The latest in the inspiring Wow! series, this guide offers basic information on how Photoshop's tools and functions work, as well as step-by-step instructions, helpful sidebars, useful Photoshop shortcuts, and galleries of inspiring Photoshop creations. The companion CD-ROM contains Layered Images, Layered Effects, dozens of ready-to run Photoshop Actions, and helpful "before" and "after" tutorial files for readers wanting to follow the examples shown in the book.
Effective whether you're a Photoshop pro or a demanding amateur, The Photoshop 6 Wow! Book contains the widest selection of useful projects, tips, tutorials, techniques, and examples of professionally produced work you're likely to find in one place.

What's remarkable about this book is that every page contains something worth knowing. While other Photoshop books have their strengths, be it Web production, photographic retouching and repro techniques, or illustration, The Photoshop 6 Wow! Book provides in-depth knowledge on just about every aspect of Photoshop 6.

Tutorials covering techniques you might already be familiar with often provide better ways of doing things or additional related information. Where they cover new ground, the results are so stunning you'll want to try them out and add them to your repertoire.

Along with the staples--framing with masks, fixing problem photos, quick masking and blending, filters, and so on--you'll find gems like focusing attention with color, blurring backgrounds while retaining grain, hand-tinting black and white photos, applying images to textured surfaces, and painting with the art history brush.

The book focuses strongly on new Photoshop 6 features such as layer styles, vector shapes, and fill layers as well as improved text handling. This makes it ideal for getting up to speed on the new features and interface enhancements in Photoshop 6, but anyone using older versions would do better with The Photoshop 5/5.5 Wow! Book or The Photoshop 4 Wow! Book by the same authors.

Screen shots, before and after examples, and galleries of professionally produced work in full color throughout make this an easy book to dip into as well as a good foundation for a structured course. --Ken McMahon, Amazon.co.uk

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