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Photoshop 7 Killer Tips

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If you are looking for a 'How To' book, you may want to pick up one of the other fantastic Photoshop books recently published (my current favorite is Bert Monroy's - Wow! a must have for anyone looking for in depth Photoshop tips!).

This book is a real treat! Even advanced users will find tips in here that will make them slap their heads and say 'Jeesh, I wish I had known that years ago!'

I admit that at first, going through the very first few pages, it seemed there would not be much for someone already familiar with Photoshop. Then I read a tip about finding the center of any document. This is something that can be done fairly easily, but it takes a few minutes and time wasted is money lost!

It turns out (as some of you probably know) all you have to do is have snap to guide turned on, create a new layer, fill it with your foreground color, drag a guide from the horizontal ruler - it automatically will snap to the center - and finally, drag a vertical guide - it too will snap to the center. Time saved and a perfectly positioned center of your document has been created in less then 30 seconds!

Photoshop 7 Killer Tips is FULL of what I call Golden Nuggets just like this. It is a lot of fun to pick up the book and open it randomly. It never takes more then turning two or three pages before one of those slap your forehead tips presents itself.

Have fun while you build your PS skills! Leslie

PHOTOSHOP 7
Killer Tips
AUTHOR: Scott Kelby and Felix Nelson
PUBLISHER: New Riders
REVIEWED BY: Barbara Rhoades

BOOK REVIEW: Photoshop 7, Killer Tips is a wonderful book chock full of quick tips on using Photoshop. Each is given half of one page so the information is in concise form. You won't have to read a chapter to find out how to do the tip. Also, each tip contains at least one graphic to visually explain what is going on.

The down side of this book is the way the Chapters are named and the tips indexed. If you are looking for a specific topic, you better know how the authors think because the Chapters have such names as Greased Lightnin' and Fast & Furious. While these names are cute, they do nothing to help a reader locate what they need.

Also the names of each tip in the Chapters are not listed in alphabetical order. For example, the first tip in Chapter 5, Fast & Furious is Zoom Out for Sharper Web Images and the second to last is Exercising Your Influence on GIFs. Neither Zoom or Exercising tells you what the tip is about; you have to read the whole name. So even if they were in alphabetical order, it wouldn't help.

The bottom line: Get the book if you want to do some reading to locate your needs. It has all kinds of wonderful tips; it is just not labeled well.

All we can say for Photoshop 7 Killer Tips is... GET IT NOW! Do not hesitate, do not wait. Just go out and buy it now - PERIOD!

This book will teach you tips that will save time on your very next project. The book is for both beginners and advanced users, however advanced users will be heard frequently saying "DOH!" while reading, as the book covers things we now do the hard way (aka bad habits) every day in Photoshop.

I think Photoshop is a software that is best explained with tips and tutorials. And this book does exactly that. It gives you lots of screenshots and lots of tips. And that makes it different from other books. I think it is one of the must have books for photoshop user. New Riders have other Killer Tips series for other softwares, but I think among them Photoshop KillerTips is the best.

I think software books are often set apart by the quality of their authors, and scott kelby has impressed me with his passion for Photoshop in previous releases.
The tips books are just crammed full of useful tips tricks and techniques, its is ideal for dipping in and picking up some goodies every now and again. As a very experinced photoshop user im usualy familiar with the tips and shortcuts which have been in the product for a long time, but occasionally theres one im amazed i didnt know, the real benefit is the insight it has given me to making Photoshop 7 work for me. Im amazed how many of the production shortcuts ive already incorporated into my own Photoshop work.
I have read enormous ammounts of Photoshop and design books, this one definately rates a place on any level of Photoshop users shelf.
Very nicely designed as well.

There aren't many things cooler than tips... and there is nothing cooler than photoshop. Put them together and you have this stroke of genius. Felix is a wizzard, Scott is an amazing teacher. If you want to pick up tips that will speed up your work and make you more money get this book.

Great book of tips and techniques for Photoshop 7 users. Scott Kelby and Felix Nelson did an outstanding job of compiling these tips. They are to the point with good screen shots. Scott keeps his cornball jokes to the very bare minimum in this one which is a huge plus. PS7 might be six versions old compared to CS5, but it still does a hell of a lot and the bonus is that used books on the software are a bargain. I got a like new edition of this book for $4 including shipping.

But buy this book - the concept is fun (sidebar book), it is well written and easily understood. Photoshop 7 is a monster of a program and unless you are one of those that was born knowing computers or are some kind of Photoshop Rainman, well, you need some help. This book is like having a friend to ask everytime you get stuck in Photoshop or wish you knew a shortcut for something. I don't need to know how everything works, I just want to do my work faster and better and this book helped!

If you are an absolute beginner with no knowledge of online resources for tutorials and tips, then perhaps this book is for you. However, if you find yourself at an intermediate level, it is a waste of time and money. I was disappointed.