Adobe Photoshop 5.0 Productivity Kit [Paperback]

Adobe Development Team (Author)

Book Description

Series: Adobe Development Team | Publication Date: January 1999

Adobe Photoshop 5 Productivity Kit is a collection of recipes and techniques with step-by-step instructions on how to achieve professional-quality, immediate results. Written in simple language, the recipes make use of Adobe Photoshop's most accessible and instantly creative features. By providing templates and other ingredients like fonts and clip art, users can work within established design parameters to create their own projects with flawlessly exciting results.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This interesting, step-by-step discussion is completely oriented toward very practical Photoshop projects, e.g., "using photographs in newsletters," "creating postcards," "creating posters," "creating videotape covers," and "creating an animated web page banner." There are 26 projects in all, plus 30-day trials of Adobe software.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Back Cover

Adobe Photoshop 5 Productivity Kit is a collection of recipes and techniques with step-by-step instructions on how to achieve professional-quality, immediate results. Written in simple language, the recipes make use of Adobe Photoshop's most accessible and instantly creative features. By providing templates and other ingredients like fonts and clip art, users can work within established design parameters to create their own projects with flawlessly exciting results.

Product Details

• Paperback: 190 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Pr (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568304641
• ISBN-13: 978-1568304649
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,918,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

64 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent result-oriented book which will fascinate you, April 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Adobe Photoshop 5.0 Productivity Kit (Paperback)

A Photoshop novice will have to handle a lot of prose in most of the existing books in the market. Before he can have some of the fun, he will have to go through pages of information about all the menus, commands and tools or about scanning. After that, she will be confrontated with boring selection exercises. By that time, most of her motivation may be over and she will try to acomplish the desired tasks by herself. This user will try to enhance photos by using simple color correction settings instead of levels, by using an error-prone selection tool instead of the quick mask mode. And so on. Until after this book came. Now a novice or beginner's level user can easily jump start with some really powerful tools that Photoshop offers. He/she will find out how wonderful it can be when the motivation and the momentum is kept alive. He/she will also have troubles getting back to the prose-filled, tell-you-all books when she/he wants to get deeper in the subject matter. This is a great book!

44 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Should Have Been Called PageMaker Productivity Kit, January 17, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Adobe Photoshop 5.0 Productivity Kit (Paperback)

Unless you have Adobe PageMaker, you won't be able to complete sixteen of the twenty-six examples in the book. In addition, the book does cover PhotoShop 5.5 so those of you with version 5 won't be able to try the ImageReady examples. Other than a very misleading title and sparse PHOTOSHOP activities, the book was just okay.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing waste of money., March 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Adobe Photoshop 5.0 Productivity Kit (Paperback)

This book wouldn't be so disappointing if it would have been titled the "Adobe Productivity Kit." Nearly every example ends up taking you into PageMaker or in some instances into ImageReady. There are better books for learning Photoshop tips and techniques that stick specifically to PS.