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Coming from Adobe press you can assume that this book will be the essential Photoshop tutorial, especially with its "Classroom" title and the fact it's part of Adobes official training series. The cover features Photoshop's familiar eye graphic that's used on the supplied manual and outer packaging. The book is laid out like the manual supplied with the program so it is disappointingly dull with lots of monotone images and just a small colour section in the centre. That said, the info provide...

Eighteen lessons writen by Adobe as part of their official training series. As it's writen by the team who produce the program you can expect an insiders knowledge. The book is greyscale throughout with a small colour section up front and a CD. It looks very much like the official handbook that comes with the program but has a different structure with review questions and answers at the end. If you already own the User Guide you won't really get great value from this. If you have a trial version...

When you first look at this book you may be a little confused over how the book actually works. But if you stick with it you'll find it's a really useful tool to have on your shelf. The book's written in alphabetical order so you can easily find a particular technique or lesson. Each topic has a summary which tells you where the feature can be found, what shortcuts work and which Photoshop has that feature. There's a colour tab system which will let you thumb-through the book quickly and...

Image specialist expert, Richard Lynch, shows us how to successfully use Layers in Photoshop. Simple, step-by-step instructions illustrate how to correct, enhance, fix and manipulate your images using layers. The language is easy to understand, the text is easy to follow and the images illustrate the book well. The accompanying CD also gives you the chance to work through the lessons taught in the book at ease and with practical images. If you're a beginner looking for advice or a...

Elements is a cut down version of Photoshop but no less satisfying to use and although the interface has been designed for beginners theres still plenty that needs good explanation and thats what Philip Andrews intends to do with this 246 page book. Colour throughout the book is heavily illustrated some examples are overkill but many are excellent visual aids to areas of digital imaging that are often talked about but rarely illustrated such as artefacts that occur when an image is saved as a J...

With a very brief introduction and a few pages on input this book flies straight into a series of step-by-step techniques - the first one is about Sepia toning. Its let down by huge screengrabs which have been displayed too big and over-sharpened, making you wonder how that happened when we have a book about the one program that can avoid such problems! The five-page technique could have easily been covered in two and that sets the flavour for this book - not much content spread thinly over t...

Even bigger than previous versions with new pictures and some completely rewritten areas making this as essential as earlier versions. Some fantastic info from a professional photographer who's been using the program since its early days. Has a large section on colour management and some top techniques to make the most of your images. Not for the beginner, but destined to be a best seller in this genre.

128 page A4 book with some very easy to follow information to help newcommers get to grips with Photoshop. The information is very user friendly and works, I noted in the acknowledgments that a guinea pig was used to try out the lessons and this shows in the helpful info. Some of the screengrabs of palettes are enarged to big so they look a little fuzzy but overall a good book. It doesn't have a section on how to print pictures which seems like an oversight. Shame also that it came a little late...

An updated version of the popular Elements book has an extra 50 pages with some new illustrations and a self contained project section which was split through the book in the earlier version and badly laid out. It's colour throughout and heavily illustrated with toned down graphics compared with the original that we criticised. They are excellent visual aids and Philip does a great job of making things clear. The book covers the basics first and then guides you through more advanced stages as i...

This book is laid out in a very easy to follow format with colour coordinated chapters and lots of step by steps. It's written in an easy to grasp language with lots of help and no assumed knowledge. The step by steps occasionally do not show a final result so you're left wondering why you would bother and some of the points don't explain why you would do something. For example, in the early stages there's an explanation of preferences and one about cache, in particular, explains how you adjust ...

This A-Z format was introduced by ePHOTOzine editor, Peter Bargh on Photoshop V5.5 and has since been expanded upon by Philip Andrews, a professional photographer, digital photography teacher, magazine editor and international author. The dictionary format makes it easy to quickly find items that you are struggling to get to grips with. Where Peter placed techniques along with the specific tool Philip brings a set of 28 concise step by steps to the front of the book enabling the A-Z aspect t...

Photoshop's layers feature is one of the most useful tools to grasp but most of us just scratch the surface. This book's aim is to drill right down to the core, covering masking, layer effects, blend modes and much more in its 250+ pages. Colour throughout and extremely well illustrated it does the job well. If layers is something you're struggling to get to grips with, then this is the book to consider. It comes with a CD and has a collection of "Try it Now" lessons through the book.

A visually bright book written and illustrated by one of Photoshop's Gurus. There's a good logical structure with 12 in-depth lessons, backed up with two hours of video tutorials on the bundled DVD. Each lesson has screengrabs photos and step by steps so you can follow along. The only downside, from a photographer's point of view, is some of the photos, and what Deke does with them, make you ask ...why? Look beyond that though and you can apply the same technique on your own ( probably better) ...

Does what it says on the tin - provides an in-depth look at Photoshop for photographers and written by Photoshop guru and professional photographer Martin Evening. As a member of the Adobe Photoshop Alpha team, Martin understands more about the intricacies of Photoshop than most and now on his 5th or so issue of this book he's fine tuned it along the way so it's become the bible for digital photographers. Wonderfully illustrated and incredibly detailed to help you master all aspects of the progr...

The 344 page book is split into three parts with 12 chapters in all. It covers topics from the basics of Lightroom through to the separate modules that make the program. Pro Tips scatter the pages and there are diagrams describing workflow patterns alongside plenty of screenshots. The book is informative, clear and concise. Rob explains the features of Lightroom with a lot of enthusiasm which makes it easier to understand and learn. The three parts are: I) What is Lightroom all about? Thi...