Sams Teach Yourself Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 5 in 21 Days [Paperback]

T. Michael Clark (Author)

Book Description

Series: Sams Teach Yourself... | Publication Date: June 25, 1998

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 5 in 21 Days shows you the fundamentals of Photoshop 5 and helps you build a strong foundation of its most important concepts and techniques. With this complete tutorial, you'll master all of the new and advanced features that Photoshop 5 offers, such as the History palette and editable text. Then learn how to effectively use the latest tools and features by following practical, real-world examples. This book is designed for the way you learn. You may go chapter by chapter through the lessons or just choose those lessons that interest you the most.

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Amazon.com Review

This guide targets users who want a classroom approach to learning Adobe Photoshop 5 but need a good overview of the basics. The book assumes that you don't have much time to learn the program. You can study the 21 lessons, which build upon one another, over any length of time you'd like. Lessons include instructions on and discussions of a variety of essential tasks, lesson summaries, quizzes, and suggested workshop activities. The book targets both Windows and Macintosh users.

Your first seven days are devoted to the very basic elements of Photoshop: you learn the interface; set preferences; find out what's new in version 5; import, export, save, and print files; choose file formats; and calibrate your monitor. In the second seven days, you learn the various editing features, such as the toning, focus, and stamp tools, and you create selections and define paths. You also use the painting and drawing tools and work with layer masks, quick masks, layering and layer modes, channels, and type tools.

In the third seven-day chunk of lessons, you apply built-in filters and learn about third-party filters. You work with color-adjustment tools and photo-retouching and -repairing techniques. You also use Actions, create composite images, and apply a variety of special effects. Finally, you learn how to fine-tune and output your images for the Web. A full-color section shows the results of selecting various filters and color-adjustment options. Appendices list keyboard shortcuts, tool documentation, and troubleshooting advice. The accompanying CD-ROM includes project files for the book's exercises and sample images, filters, and fonts. --Kathleen Caster

From the Back Cover

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 5 in 21 Days shows you the fundamentals of Photoshop 5 and helps you build a strong foundation of its most important concepts and techniques. With this complete tutorial, you'll master all of the new and advanced features that Photoshop 5 offers, such as the History palette and editable text. Then learn how to effectively use the latest tools and features by following practical, real-world examples. This book is designed for the way you learn. You may go chapter by chapter through the lessons or just choose those lessons that interest you the most.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Sams (June 25, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672313006
• ISBN-13: 978-0672313004
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,836,608 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Introduction to Photoshop, January 2, 1999

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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 5 in 21 Days (Paperback)

This book is set up with lessons in each chapter and lengthly step by step how to's. It contains a lot of content for the size of the book and even a newcomer will gain a strong comprehensive skills at Photoshop. One of the best resources for learning Photoshop. Will shave years off the average Photoshop learning curve. The book allows the student to really see the true power and depth of the program, as well as introduction to special effects. All the matrial is presented in a light fun manner, by the books author. The down side is that the files are not always where there supposed to be or what they're supposed to be, but that's true of most of the lesson books from this publisher. At least this book has most the files even if they're not in the right folder, try the other folders and they'll turn up. There are also several Web sites and resources mentioned in the book that are helpful, including the author's Web site(where he features tutorials described in the book) Definately a great tool for learning Photoshop and there are also resources in the that offer guidance on where more advanced skills can be aquired. Photoshop doesn't have to be as scarey as people claim it is. OK it may take a little longer than 21 days, but a book like this one invites you to take the time and explore. It's worth every minute spent.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Learn using photoshop quickly, March 20, 2000

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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 5 in 21 Days (Paperback)

A very good book to star your journey into Photoshop. Teaches you the basics and some neat tricks too. It gets you start using Photoshop quickly, but if you want to go to a more of an advance level, you will need another book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A lot of useful information, but carelessly presented., January 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) 5 in 21 Days (Paperback)

This is a very disappointing book and not recommended for someone who has not worked with previous versions of Photoshop, or anyone who is easily frustrated by poorly presented information. Although Mr. Clark appears to be knowledgeable about the content, he and his editor were very careless about the development of many of the lessons. Topics do no flow in a logical progression. References are made to tools or techniques that have not been covered in earlier lessons. References to tools are not easy to follow and are not supported through repetition or consistent visual clues. Several demonstrations are made without file references which makes it very difficult for the reader to follow along. Some files are in the wrong folders, some are missing and others are defective. There is a great deal of useful information in the book, but it was obviously rushed to press before it was ready for publication.