Photoshop 7 For Dummies
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Photography & Video
Photoshop 7 For Dummies Details
From the Back Cover Edit and retouch images like a pro - no experience required! Loaded with tips on fixing flaws and creating extraordinary effects The secrets of Photoshop image-editing - explained in plain English! Photoshop gives you total control over digital images, whether you want to correct a minor flaw or liven things up with a spectacular special effect. But how do you get the hang of all those tools, palettes, and settings? Relax! With this fun and easy reference, you'll be editing images for print or the Web in no time. The Dummies Way * Explanations in plain English * "Get in, get out" information * Icons and other navigational aids * Tear-out cheat sheet * Top ten lists * A dash of humor and fun Get smart! @www.dummies.com * Find listings of all our books * Create your own personalized book with Hungry Minds a la Carte(TM) * Sign up for daily eTips at www.dummiesdaily.com Read more About the Author Deke McClelland is one of the world's leading experts on digital graphics. Over 3 million copies of his books are in print. Barbara Obermeier is a graphic designer, university instructor, and coauthor of several For Dummies books. Read more
Reviews
I have been struggling with Photoshop 7, especially the use of the pen tool in creating curved lines. The Adobe Photoshop 7 manual was probably correct, but I could not follow the instructions successfully. After several days of work, I gave up and purchased the subject book, "Photoshop 7 for Dummies" expecting that the pen tool usage would be treated more clearly and simply.Well that didn't happen. In the area of instruction in question, the subject book is basically a copy of the process in the original manual - even using the same figures.It is useless to me. I have many years of product design experience and have built, used, and serviced computers professionally, and it seems clear that the authors did not have the beginner/dummy in mind at all... only wanting to get the required number of pages of copy into print.For now, I am highly dissatisfied with this book. ...and still searching for help with my problem.Edit months later: Well I eventually found the solution to my problem - from a friend. If the authors had the goal of helping "dummies" with this book, they would not have used so much ink and paper trying to be clever. It is clarity and simplicity 'we" need. And from someone who thoroughly understands the computer program - clearly not the people who filled these pages.
