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Photoshop 5 for Windows and Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1160723
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0201353520
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.6869
EAN: 9780201353525
ASIN: 0201353520
Publication Date: September 1, 1998
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
This Visual QuickStart Guide to Photoshop 5 for Windows and Macintosh is ideal for computer graphics beginners who need thorough help with even the most basic tools in Adobe's image editor. The authors provide step-by-step instruction for each exercise while offering the exact keyboard and mouse operations, plenty of screen shots and illustrations, extra usage tips, and a bit of technical insight. First, you learn the essential options on the menus and in the palettes; approach the issue of color in Photoshop; and explore the significance of pixels, red-green-blue (RGB) and cyan-magenta- yellow-black (CMYK) models, channels, image and blending modes, and color management. To get you started on some real work, the authors show you how to create, open, and save files; scan images; import files; resize and crop images; and use the Navigator palette. The subsequent chapters guide you through the processes of making selections; creating composite images using layers and the Stamp tool; working with History (undo and redo) options; using Adjustment Layers; choosing, adjusting, and correcting color; and working with the line, paintbrush, airbrush, and gradient tools. In the last, most advanced part of the book, the authors show you how to create interesting effects using layers, masks, paths, the type tool, and filters. Finally, the authors show you how to customize your images for output to the Web, Macromedia Director, and Adobe After Effects. --Kathleen Caster
Product Description
Adobe Photoshop is the application of choice for digital image manipulation. Its complexity can be daunting for beginners, however. Photoshop 5 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide gives users an accessible, how-to reference guide to basic photo manipulation and correction techniques using the latest version of Photoshop. Using this guide, beginners don't need to wander through menus or read a great deal of text. Extensive pictures and captions reassure readers that they are in the correct dialog box, pop-up menu, or entry field to do what they need. Used as a standard textbook in countless classrooms, and as a table-top reference by freelance computer artists everywhere, it's the book that explains Photoshop techniques clearly and quickly. Includes new and revised material on using Photoshop effectively for Web images as well as in multimedia productions. Also covers most of the higher-end changes in this version, including: improved color management, the new History palette, 16-bit channel support, layer effects, History brush, Magnetic Lasso and Magnetic Pen tools, Postscript type layers, and the expanded Actions palette.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Good Buy January 16, 2002
This is a great reference tool to be used in conjunction with other Photoshop References.
 An easy to master, visual approach for the novice user August 11, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Photoshop is one of the most popular and widespread softwares specifically designed to operate on either a Windows or Macintosh platform. In Photoshop For Windows & Macintosh, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas have effectively collaborated to create an ideal, easy to master, visual approach for the novice user that provides an informed and informative tour through what this software can do -- and how to do it. Comprehensive, concise, direct, "reader friendly" and illustrated commentary documents Photoshop For Windows & Macintosh as a truly effective primer and an enduringly useful reference for Photoshop users.
 Terrible April 2, 2001
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was terrible. It is not for beginners. It would be very difficult to teach yourself Photoshop when this book as a reference.
This is NOT the "quick and easy way" to learn Photoshop! August 18, 2000
Don't waste your money on this book if you're new to Photoshop. The authors provide no frame of reference as they immediately delve into the various palettes and toolbox and to other areas that will have you throwing the book down in disgust. There are better books out there for beginners but this is certainly not one of them.
 The book was a waste of money April 15, 2000
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I cant believe either that this book was recommended for my class. It offers no insight om how to blend everthing you learn to make a quality layout. You can teach yourself the same things in the book just by tril and error. Those masterpieces in the middle dont help the beggimer out either.
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