Inside Adobe Photoshop 4: Limited [Deluxe Edition] [Hardcover]

Gary David Bouton (Author), Barbara Mancuso Bouton (Author), Gary Kubicek (Author)

Book Description

Series: Inside | Publication Date: August 1997

Presents easy-to-use tutorials and exercises with the aim of increasing understanding and productivity of Adobe Photoshop. The text explains tools, filters and techniques and the CD-ROM includes exercise files, freeware and shareware texture images and web templates.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

A comprehensive guide to using Photoshop 4, the book teaches you how to create any sort of artwork you dream up. This limited edition includes five additional chapters on advanced techniques. The chapter on animation post-production shows you how to batch-edit still image frames from animations and use animation compilers. "Direct Scanning and Image Resolution" covers professional scanning techniques and shows you how to use Photoshop and Illustrator to create magazine layouts and Web pages. The chapter "Illustrating Metal Surfaces" covers textures such as gold and steel, and "Melding Painting with Photography" shows you how to use templates and Texture Creator, a texture-rendering program included on the book's CD-ROM, to create compelling images. The final new chapter, "Honey I Shrunk the Author," shows you how to place overly large or small objects in your photos. Like the paperback version, this book's CD-ROM comes with project files and demo software. However, this edition also comes with an extra CD-ROM, one that has project files for the new chapters and additional software, backgrounds, and images.

From Library Journal

Neither of these encyclopedic how-to guides is recommended for beginners. But if you have the kind of involved projects that keep you up late at night, these books will get you a few more winks. Bouton's book is really a second edition but includes new and useful material such as information on postproduction, scaling, illustrating metal surfaces, and other effects.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1134 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Pub (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562058002
• ISBN-13: 978-1562058005
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.8 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,834,567 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 Unbelievably comprehensive and thorough, June 23, 2000

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Ron DeStefano, Jr. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inside Adobe Photoshop 4: Limited (Hardcover)

I bought this book after searching through dozens of Adobe Photoshop 4.0 titles. This particular book is an incredible compendium that really turns the novice Photoshop user into a pro. Each chapter covers a different Photoshop task, making it easy for the reader to personalize the tutorial to his/her needs. And each little mini-tutorial is incredibly thorough, with dozens of examples and lots of step-by-step exercises that make each procedure second-nature. After only a few days, I moved from Photoshop ignoramus to website developer! ( )

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is the BEST for beginners AND advanced users!, February 27, 2000

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MSlady (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inside Adobe Photoshop 4: Limited (Hardcover)

Gary David Bouton writes in the most logical, effective manner I have ever seen in this type book. This is a COMPREHENSIVE guide to Photoshop 4. It is a large book, filled with hands on tutorials (not to mention two CDs packed with lessons and extras) that begin with the very basics, build on them...and take you well into advanced techniques. At no time are you left hanging... every step in each technique is not only covered, but the logic behind it is explained. This book is written so skillfully that both beginners and Photoshop veterans will find Mr. Bouton's explanations and comments fascinating and invaluable. You will pick up REAL SKILL and a lasting foundation in Photoshop from this book... not to mention hundreds of cool effects to show off with!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I can't thank the Boutons enough, February 28, 2000

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Paul Simone (Fayetteville, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inside Adobe Photoshop 4: Limited (Hardcover)

I have been using books written by Gary Bouton and his wife Barbara for awhile now. I'm looking back at this particular book as a milestone in my Photoshop education. I took this book, and for a month I slowly read, re-read, underlined and executed the lessons until I truely understood what I was doing. By re-reading and trying the lessons I was able to overcome the stubborn paradigms I created which normally keep me from understanding what is being said.

This effort has paid off. I'm currently using Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and it's no problem. Thank you Gary and Barbara for taking on a task this immense. If any of you have ever written technical lessons you can appreciate the monumental effort it would take to create an 1134 page textbook with two associated CDs. Thank you, but no thank you.

I have since purchsed their "Inside Adobe Photoshop 5" book and am enjoying it as well. I must admit that I haven't read it with a fine tooth comb as I did this Photoshop 4 book. Shame on me. I have been perusing it of late and notice that it has some good stuff to try.

For those of you who don't know it, the Bouton's keep a website that is full of information and any corrections that their books need. That's a very nice feature; www.TheBoutons.com

I've been using Photoshop for fine art, severely damaged photo restoration, logo creation, brochure creation and web graphics. It's still the greatest. Try it, you'll like it. :-)