Customer Reviews

The Photoshop 4 Wow! Book with CDROM (Wow Books)

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I bought this book as a gift to teach my father how to use Photoshop 4, in the end, i found it so facinating and useful that I kept it for myself. The CD-Rom was great as well. It showed me how to produce neat effects that I was able to use in the workplace and home - Step by Step and with automated actions. One of the best photoshop books I've ever bought.

This book was more than incredible, being a professional designer I envy the creators of this book. With a simple and easy to follow layout, the book describes amazing techniques which will astonish anyone. It effectively describes every aspect of photoshop and how to use it. Even for beginners, this book is a smash hit! It features images by people from intustrial light and magic (Made Star Wars) and it has great details on rotoscoping quicktime movies! If all else fails, there is a CD included that contains over 50 actions, filter demos, and images, A definite MUST BUY!

I bought this book on it's graphics alone, and I was rewarded by my choice. The only reason that I didn't give it 5 stars is that the tutorials could be a little less confusing. As well as a couple of mistakes that I had to write in the book to remind myself of. Other than that, the price of the book is almost worth it just to get the cd. The actions included are unstoppable. Plus the tutorials, which as I previously stated could be a little clearer, compliment the actions on the disk. Giving you the step-by-step to mimic them(actions). Plus you can amaze and astound your friends with the techniques learned from this book. I definitely recommend it.

I was not able to use this book. I found it confusing and overly technical.

This book provides examples of how to do certain special effects.

It was definitely more of a "tips and tricks" book than it was a learning resource. Just follow the steps, and go "WOW" just like the title.

It doesn't really explain in detail how the trick was done and why you're doing a certain step. Most photoshop gurus will just scoff at this book, and most newbies will walk away amazed, but no smarter about photoshop than before they read it.

The latter portions of the book was nothing more than a summary of the different photoshop filters found in commercial filter packages. I question why thoese filters were even in the book; it seemed like advertising that does not benefit the readers.

If you are looking for a beginning or intermediate book for Photoshop 4, don't buy this one. As a long time user of Photoshop, I was looking for some hints in making better graphics. The layout of the book was a wasteland, meaning it was difficult to find info and not layed out well.

Although this book is somewhat daunting for the beginner, it is an excellent resource once you get your Photoshop feet wet. The WOW CD is simply great, so many special effects in an instant. I have read it over and over and in some cases dissected each section by writing out each step of the process before actually trying it on my own projects. It helped me immensely to "ace" my Photoshop class this semester. I would only recommend it however, for the "tenacious" beginner. You really need to know the basics of the software...it isn't a beginner's guide.

The moment I saw this book, I fell in love with it. It's a superb book with clear pictures and good tips. The examples are explained in a guided way. I wish they had icluded few more examples in the book.

Overall this is a great book, but only if you have been using photo Shop for quite a while. If you are a novice than I suggest you skip this book, or read it a get a HUGE headache figuring it out!

For Print or web use this book has some nifty tricks to apply to your work, I found it easy to follow but I can see where newbies or (ahem!) people without a manual could get lost quick.

If you are looking to add something special to your portfolio but dont have any ideas this book might be the one for you!