Customer Reviews

Photoshop 7 for Windows & Macintosh

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I like how the Visual Quickstart series features a plethora of images, and I truly enjoyed how they had pictures for all the filters. This book covers many aspects of photoshop and is great for reference, or if you want to find out how to do something, but there are many better books out there, and this book is just average at best compared to others. It doesn't really TEACH the program as much as it explains it. I do think the book is useful and is a great quick reference and is good for those who are just learning photoshop.

I had been using PaintSho Prop, but I knew I needed to use Photoshop. I bought this book because I wanted to know how to use the majority of the tools, I didn't need to know how to "WOW" or do special effects. I read every chapter and did every example. I immediately uninstalled paint shop pro. I don't claim this to be the best book in the world. But if you just need to learn how to use Photoshop, this is the book for you. This is not a "WOW" book, it shows you how to use the tools and that is how you want to start out. This is worth every penny. TRUST ME! I don't usually give good reviews!

All in all this book's title and description on front page is misleading,and for that they deserve a poor review

Its cover claims that you can teach yourself Photoshop the quick and easy way and that it is a visual quick start. This book is not for beginners, unless you have used other bitmap editors and are therefore familiar with concepts and terms in bitmap editing and are now interested in learning Photoshop.If I were a beginner, I would be completely confused during the first few chapters and would never have made it past that.The first few chapters spew out all these terms that are for intermediate and advanced users. Generally speaking, if you did know a thing or two about image editors, but not everything, you might find the explanations to be fair to average and could use clearer explanations;perhaps with an example here and there.

I have used Photoshop for a couple of years and was comfortable with the book, but I remember what is was like when I was first learning it. This book would have scared me and greatly underminded my confidence in taking on a program with such a high learner's curve. While reading this book and introduced to methods that I did not know,I sometimes found myself surfing the net for better explanations.

There are better books out there for beginners and even intermediate users

If you are just starting out in Photoshop then don't buy this book, it will confuse you. But, if like me, you've dabbled about in Photoshop and really wanted to get to grips with the basics through to intermediate then definitely buy this book. I've been using Photoshop for several years ( self taught) in the beginning a friend showed me how to use layers etc but I got lazy and tried to cheat. A few weeks back I decided to get a book and start from the beginning.
I already know all the tools etc so I didn't want a complete learners book.
This was perfect, I'm more than happy and I've learnt tons.
Right now I'm reading Real World Photoshop 7 which is fantastic.
Anyway, as I said, this is NOT a book for the absolute beginner.
Hope this helps

This book, as well an several other Peach Pit Press books, did a great job of immediately losing my interest. The layout doesn't seem to flow from one section to the next. It seems like the author thought of a new topic at random, and dumped that information in the book with no consideration for logical order. In general, it seems that most of the Peach Pit Press books that I've read follow this "shuffling of information" approach.

This book is not for beginners. Very confusing and poorly written.

I don't know if it makes a good reference because I'm new to Photoshop, but I do know one thing, this book does not teach a beginner anything.

I am taking it back.

OK you're still using PS7 and want to get up to speed.
You want all the technical details and tips and even some background on print design.
You want a couple of exercises and clear examples.
You want to go from beginner to a confident intermediate level.
And you want a shelf reference to PS7.

Note: You also acknowledge PS7 to be the greatest
image editor this side of the milky way(!)

Get this book.

Content is informative. Book condition is marginal, but it was only 90 cents or so. Got the bang for less than a buck!

The book looks brand new and arrived in record time. Thank you so much!

Learn the easy way? Give me a break..Although I'm a beginner to Photoshop, I've done quite a bit of web oriented work using Dreamweaver/Fireworks..I became so disoriented reading this book, I just closed it up and returned it..Not for beginners at all..