Product Details

• Actors: Jim Zuckerman
• Directors: Gregory McKean
• Format: NTSC, Widescreen
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Master Photo Workshops
• DVD Release Date: March 13, 2009
• Run Time: 168 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001T5EM6I
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,537 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Photoshop techniques made easy, March 20, 2009

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Carlton Ward "redjelly39" (Portland, Or United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Be a Photoshop Guru - Unlocking the Hidden Genius Behind Photoshop's Tools (DVD)

Jim Zuckermans "Be a Photoshop Guru" DVD is a wonderful training tool for people who edit & enhance images in Photoshop. Jim shows you how to create actions, use selection tools, easily replace skies & backgrounds, make composites, add reflections, simulate polarizers & many other editing tools.
I have been using Photoshop for 8 years and have taken a couple of Photoshop classes with Jim (through Better Photo) so I already knew many of these techniques (I consider myself an intermediate/advanced user) but I still learned new tricks and better ways to accomplish editing tasks more efficiently after watching this DVD.
If you are a beginner/intermediate PS user and are not familiar with the tools & editing techniques listed in these lessons, you will be using these tools with ease very quickly. They are essential tools for everyday Photoshop users and will elevate your image editing capabilities. You will be able to transform that dull/flat photo with a white sky into a rich, vibrant work of art in just a few easy steps.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very educational, February 4, 2010

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Very educational DVD.

Be aware, it is a DVD disk with computer files for viewing on a PC, not a DVD movie for watching on the TV.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Help, but Can Only Run In Quicktime, December 11, 2009

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Della M. Robinson - See all my reviews
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I love the way Jim Zuckerman go through the different procedures and demonstrates everything in a simple manner. He touched on a couple of these in his DVD New England Color - Field Techniques for Great Pictures after following his suggestions there I decided it was a good idea to get this DVD for a more complete instruction. It is. Layers, selecting just certain parts of the photo, replacing things like Sky or a background and much more are covered in good detail, that even someone compleatly new to Photoshop can learn. In Photography school I had to pay a couple hundred dollors on books to learn Photoshop as part of the class. I think they should scrap them and just have a person buy this DVD. Much simpler to learn and covers most of what the books do. It is by far the better deal.

The one thing that does annoy me is I had to move the files from the disk to my hard drive and use Quicktime to watch it. This is easy, all you have to do is open it from "MY Computer" and drag and drop the listed files into a Folder and run it through Quicktime. If you use a Mac it should be similar or even easier since Quicktime is a Apple program. It will not run in a regular DVD player or Windows Media Player. I have never really liked Quicktime as I don't think Apple ever came out with a version that worked yet. Xbox360 reads it as a mixed disk so it even failed. I would of much prefer it to run like a regular disk so I can relax on the couch when watching it instead of sitting at the PC.

This is still a great DVD and well worth getting. I have already watched it twice in the past day I have had it, and am having a blast going through all my photos on the PC thinking of all the things I can now do with them. I plan on also buying his other Photoshop DVD and hope it is more regular player friendly.