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Teach Yourself Photoshop

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I use Photoshop LE for web pages and photo touchup, and having gotten the program as a freebie with another Adobe package, I'm somewhat allergic to paying ( ) for the typical photoshop manual.

Enter Teach Yourself books. This British publisher has been around as long as I can remember, producing simple and useful manuals for, it sometimes seems, every possible human endevor, and now they're doing excelent comuter books.

This slim volume may not be as exhaustive a reference as some of the 500 page tomes out there, but it's complete, it answered all my questions, and at under ( ) it's a steal

I had always wanted to learn design but had no time or money to invest in classes etc. All I had was an iMac and "Teach yourself Quark Express". Although some reviews don't praise this book, I found it to be informative enough to learn my way around the Quark interface and start designing pages. Because large manuals overwhelmed me- not to mention my optimism about breaking into design was not that high, I settled for this cheap little book. Well I'm happy to say that within about six weeks I landed my first design job in NYC and have since mastered Quark and became very skilled in Photoshop and Illustrator. Just six months after reading this book I became a very experienced and employable designer. I have taken many courses in design since then-but my gratitude goes to the author because I never would have done it without this book. This is the only Quark book I've ever owned and believe me, anything a certified Quark instructor has ever showed me I had already learned in this book.

Again, hats off to Christopher Lumgair! Another great book for one who is looking to break into design. I got my start in design with "Teach Yourself QuarkXPress", but actually I use this book more. It's great for those needing to learn how to scan line art and contones quickly and a good all around reference. Yes, there are better Photoshop books-but this little guy has more bang for the buck!