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How to Do Everything with Photoshop CS

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I can't stress enough how pleased I am with this book. It covers everything. If you are a beginner or advanced user with photoshop this book is for you. I have learned so much!!! Cover to cover this book explains every tool and how to use it effectivly. Packed with step by step tutorials explaining how to reach different effects.
If you use photoshop for print or web, this book explains the methods(ex. use of cymk vs rbg, optimizing images for web publishing) even goes into the use of imageready so you can get your page on the web. The behind the scenes section is great! Shows work from the pro's and some of their techniques. I will be looking for more books from this author.

How to do Everything with Photoshop doesn't teach you "everything" but does show some of the key components and techniques in Photoshop that you would most commonly use. First of all, the book is in full color, which makes reading much more interesting. I love how every tutorial has a picture guidance to help you see and visualize the author's techniques. Most of the tutorials are straight to the point, easy to understand and a great stepping stone to get you up and running in Photoshop. I wish the book would show you more photo effect techniques but otherwise, the book is very colorful, vibrant, easy to read, covers the important aspects of Photoshop and pretty cheap at under $20. I would say this is a great beginners book.

As a professional graphic designer I know quite a bit about Photoshop - or at least I thought I did. Colin Smith covers it all, from the preferences on up. Everything is explained in a clear, no-nonsense manner. I highly recommend this book to everyone, novice to expert. You're never too old to learn new tricks.

I am a kind of collector of Photoshop books, from beginner's level to advanced. I found this book one of the best Photoshop books ever-made, also because the author has succeeded in explaining in simple and clear way advanced topics such as for example channels (p.136) and layer blending modes (p.126). The book (contrarily to many other Photoshop books) is full in color, and I recommend it for beginners and even for advanced users (thanks to the bonus section at the end " Behind the Scenes - a gallery with techniques from the pros"). Suggestion for the next edition: please made the photos showed in the book available on a Web site or on an attached CD !

This books serves as an excellent teaching tool and all around great resource for Photoshop users of any level. It's well structured, with easy to understand content. What I like the most is that the book is filled with full color images and screen shots for easy reference. It's very hands on. Excellent value for the price.

I must say, after I got PSCS I was looking for "That Book". I Noticed that Colin Smith had released his version on PSCS and I had to have it. I read the book from cover to cover and I must say Colin makes things very easy while reading the book. I have been in Graphic designs for almost 10 years now and upgrading to CS was the best thing I did, and now that I have the book things are easier..thanx Colin for making things less complicating :)

Colin does it yet again... Although this book at first glance appears targeted at beginners to the software, Colin steps things up a few notches by delivering sound information and quality techniques that intermediate and even advanced users of Photoshop will find useful and informative. Colin is not only an exceptional teacher of all things 'graphic', but check out his forum and website at www.photoshopcafe.com and you will find he is a heck of a nice guy to boot. 4000+ members to his forum alone can't be wrong!

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I learned abotu so many features in photoshop, that I would have probably never ever explored! Really gives you insight to things you never thought neccesary.

You don't need images to have this book teach you, the instruction is perfect as is.

It's obvious that the author was thinking of the reader when writing this book. He quickly gets to the point on the most important issues a Photoshop user needs to know. I wish this author would write a similar book on Adobe GoLive CS.

Finally one that helps you understand the whole picture! Great book for any level. I have learned more in a few days with this one than from all the manuals and other PS Books that I have purchased. This book tells it so you can understand it and keeps you well entertained at the same time.