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Official Kai's Power Tools® Studio Secrets®

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This book is a shamelessly flattering puff piece for the Kai Krauss line of MetaCreations products. The products are good, but this book provided little assistance on how to use them. The enclosed CD-ROM has all kinds of goodies for the Mac, virtually none for the PC (other than a few video interviews). There's a lot of pretty color images, but little help for anybody trying to duplicate them. It's a shame it's marketed as the official book because it comes off as nothing more than an extended commercial advertising Kai's product line.

This book is so useless! It shows you all the cool things you can do with these programs, but it doesn't teach you how. No wonder they called it "Studio Secrets." How they made these graphics were kept a secret.

I agree with all the reviewers on this site! Although full of glossy, full-colour illustrations, this book is little more than an advertisement for various products and the programmers who developed them. It tells you nothing about how to do things with the software, it merely flaunts the capabilities of the programs and shows off examples of images created by experts, without any guidance. There are plenty secrets in this book, unfortunately none of them are revealed so you can produce your own images. Having paid the full UK price for this book (twice as much as the US price), I think I should have bought a coffee-table book instead, as it's all pretty pictures and not practical info or tutorials

Do you think Kai's Power Tool's interface is confusing and need help? Well, this is NOT the book.
It has no information at all, every subject lacks substance and depth. It only flatters the Kai's production team in a disgusting way.
Maybe you should try the cheaper Kai's Power Tools 3 for Windows (Visual Quickstart Guide).

I must agree with the above comment. The book did not cover any topic well and was more an over-view than a learning tool. The included software mostly suited a mac platform. Any included software should be of the same quality for both platforms. Better luck next time people.

This book covers too many programs too lightly. I was looking for help learning the program and using the filters. Also most of the CD was in the Mac format. The tutorials, which were primarily what I was looking for were all in the Mac format. I'm still looking for help for KPT's, Convolver, and Kai's Photo Soap for the PC.