Photoshop 6 for Windows Fast & Easy | 
 enlarge | Author: Lisa A. Bucki
Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
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Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0761528504
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.6869
EAN: 9780761528500
ASIN: 0761528504
Publication Date: October 1, 2000
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Product Description
Relax. Learning Photoshop is now a breeze. You're holding a book dedicated to one simple idea: You want to solve problems and get to work as quickly and easily as possible. Now you don't have to wade through endless pages of boring text. With Premier Press best-selling Fast & Easy series, you simply look and learn.
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 Ugh! July 15, 2006
I spent the first 15 minutes reading this book, beginning with chapter one, only to discover that you could not relate to any of this information of "Taking charge of your tools" until you had created an actual image (described in chapter two) to use these tools on. Ugh! Why give us all this information before we are ready to use it? We're not planning to fly a 747 here. We just get some graphics work done.
But I plowed ahead anyway into chapter two, only to get stuck on page 30, where the book describes how to import an image. I was thinking at this point, "I don't want to import no stinking image. I just want to learn how to WORK with images!"
But it got even worse. By page 32, we are introduced to the topic of grabbing a digital camera image. At this point I thought I was dealing with a truly scatter brained author. But I plowed ahead to chapter three. And that's when things truly got bad.
I got to the part about setting an existing image's background color using the eyedropper tool. I followed the book's instructions exactly as described, only to find out that every time I held down the ALT key and clicked a color, it deleted that color from my color chart! And I have no way of knowing how to get these colors back!!
This is truly a poorly written, if not a dangerous book, for a Photoshop beginner. And if the rest of the Photoshop tutorials are no better than this one then it's back to Paint Shop Pro for me. Why bother with a technology if nobody can explain to you how to use it? At least with PSP I (despite its kludgey interface) I can get some work done.
Impressively Bad July 8, 2002
This is truly a poor book. Unhelpful. Badly Organized. Wrong information. Ignorant of keyboard shortcuts. Repetitive. Here's just one of my favorites (from page 82):
"If you see the phrase Alt+click in the rest of the book, it means you should hold the Shift key while dragging. Release the mouse button before you release the Shift key."Go figure.
Not a good instruction book or reference book December 6, 2000
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If I wanted to know where the blur effect is, I would just use Photoshops help. This book does not live up to its title, unless by "fast & easy" they mean the amount of time it would take to get through this book.I wish authors would stop creating beginners books that don't explain concepts. If anyone needs to know the difference between a motion blur and a Gaussian blur it is a beginner. Just showing a person the menu commands does the same as the manuals. I looked at this books because I have been forcing myself to transfer from Corel Photopaint to PhotoShop. I found this book to be a waste of time.
 Exposes features . . . November 19, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not as helpful a book as i hoped. I am rather new to Photoshop, but expected something at least a bit more in-depth. This book merely exposes features. I was very disappointed at first; but a second look did yield more useful content. This book is full of screen snapshots which take up most of every page -- with text on the remaining bit of space. This book may be more suited for those who have never seen any version of photoshop. (Actually, thumbing through this book, the introduction states this book is geared for novices of digital image creation or photoshop [newbies].)Chapter 1 begins with Starting Photoshop, and the steps : Click Start button on the windows taskbar. Point to Programs, Adobe, Photoshop 6. It takes one full page and a half (3 screen-shots) to cover opening Photoshop. The next page in the book finally gets Photoshop OPEN. If that is the help you need, then this is the book for you ! I don't want to sound too critical of the book itself. I want to help others make an informed decisions.
Great if you don't have a clue on how to use menus November 4, 2000
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Tells you how to access the features, but not why you would want to or what to do with the features after you access them. Basically teaches you how to use menus. No help in teaching how to improve your digital photos, with the features of Photoshop 6.
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