Easy Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 6 [Paperback]

Kate Binder (Author)

Book Description

Series: Easy ... | Publication Date: October 31, 2000

Easy Photoshop 6 uses a simple and friendly approach to teach you the basics of Photoshop 6. This book is based completely on visual learning. The book is focused on the topics and tools that are most frequently used for the most common Photoshop tasks and avoids the complex tasks of higher-level users. Some of the tasks covered include interface basics, selection tools, color, editing and manipulation, filters, printing and using Photoshop for the Web.

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Easy Photoshop 6 uses a simple and friendly approach to teach you the basics of Photoshop 6. This book is based completely on visual learning. You don't have to read text in order to complete a given task. In addition, the book is focused on the topics and tools that are most frequently used for the most common Photoshop tasks and avoids the complex tasks of higher-level users. Some of the tasks covered include interface basics, selection tools, color, editing and manipulation, filters, printing and using Photoshop for the Web.

About the Author

Kate Binder is a publishing specialist who has written about print and electronic production techniques for a decade. She is the author of Easy Adobe Photoshop 5 and Teach Yourself QuarkXPress in 14 Days, coauthor of Photoshop 4 Complete, and contributor to Using QuarkXPress and other books as well as articles for Publish and Desktop Publishers Journal.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Que; 1st edition (October 31, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789724235
• ISBN-13: 978-0789724236
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,432,090 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great quick reference, September 21, 2001

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Richard H. Graham (Fishersville, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 6 (Paperback)

The trouble with Photoshop is its just too complete for recreational uses to remember even most of its capabilities. It is therefore an overkill for all but daily, probably commercial users. This book is the perfect solution. Open a favorite image file, and flip through the book until you find something that looks interesting and fun. Do what it says..click click click Shazaam! Hey look at this honey! Now I actually use some of the vast power of this amazing software. Most of it works with PS 5 or even 5LE as well so if you have those but are thinking of upgrading, this is a good way to learn the improvements in PS6. Opps - can't do that with 5 - humm nice enhancement. This is not however a good tutorial for learning photoshop from scratch. It doesn't give any explanation of why something works nor does it connect one process to another. You need at least a basic understanding to get started. Any of really abbreviated books will work for that, my dog eared copy of Photoshop for Idiots was enough for me. This book is great for digital darkroom hobbiests as it opens a nearly endless set of ways to amaze yourself on how creative you can be. And I haven't melted my hard drive with it...yet.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A crystal-clear presentation, March 4, 2002

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donald rapp (So. Pasadena, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 6 (Paperback)

I have at least ten books on Adobe Photoshop and eight of them (including the ones supplied by Adobe) are unintelligible. "Photoshop 4 Complete" by Kate Binder and others was the only book that I could understand. So I was happy when Kate Binder recently came out with "Easy Adobe Photoshop 6." (Actually I was not so happy because I was thinking about writing a simplified pictorial book on Photoshop and this pre-empted me totally.) This book is well worth the investment to anyone who wants to learn Photoshop, particularly for editing and retouching digital photos. It is completely pictorial with very extensive clear pictures that show you diagrammatically what to do and what to expect to see on the monitor when you do it. I learned a great deal from reading this book and it is also a valuable reference. I highly recommend it to others. The only criticism I could make is that it is weak on matters pertaining to file size, file formats and JPEG options vs. JPEG quality.

Donald Rapp

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for beginners, November 30, 2000

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Todd Giaquinto (Cranston, RI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 6 (Paperback)

This book provides excellent visual guides for many popular Photoshop functions. Definitely useful for a beginner who is new to graphic design and Photoshop.