Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop 6 [Paperback]

Mike Wooldridge (Author)

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Read Less, Learn More
Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something—and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle scores of Photoshop 6 tasks, from adjusting colors, merging layers, and applying effects to working with filters, rendering type, and optimizing images for the Web.

• "Teach Yourself" sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
• Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
• Succinct explanations walk you through step-by-step
• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

About the Author

Mike Wooldridge has worked as an independent Web developer, technology writer, and educator since 1995, and has been using Dreamweaver since version 1.0, and because of its exceptional support for handling large web sites, uses it as his primary tool for maintaining client web sites. He's written about Web technology for various publications, including Macworld, CNET and MacHome Journal. His articles have covered Web design, graphics and multimedia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Visual; 1 edition (January 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764535137
• ISBN-13: 978-0764535130
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 7.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,245,980 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mike Wooldridge is a user-interface designer and Web developer. He has authored more than 20 books for Wiley's Visual series.

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for beginners!, April 1, 2001

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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop 6 (Paperback)

If you want to learn the basics of photoshop and do something and get results then this book is for you. I have had photoshop for quite awhile now but chose to use Paint Shop Pro and other programs because they seemed much easier. My old photoshop book (a Dummies Book) would bore or distract me by the time I got to the good stuff. I have learned more about Photoshop in the first few chapters than I have in trying to "read" other books. If you really need to know the ins and outs of Photoshop then maybe another book is better since this book has very little details in the whys of doing something. Most topics take up about two pages each. However, if you want to touch up and play with a few pictures you have scanned or whatever and you dont have time to read then this book is very helpful. This book also helped me better understand and use similar features in other photo editing programs.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great way to grasp what PhotoShop does!, January 8, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop 6 (Paperback)

With absolutely no experience with PhotoShop, I tried to read other books to teach it to myself. Especially with a graphics program, seeing it done sure beats reading about it--and this book does it well! Gave me the confidence to use the program.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best Book To Start Off With Using Photoshop, July 1, 2002

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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop 6 (Paperback)

This is another one of my 5 Photoshop books that I bought for my Introductory course to the program. It helped me a great deal when I was starting out and needed to learn everything. The visuals are great. There isn't much text to bog you down. Everything is in full color. The one and only problem is that when you exhaust what this book can do for you, you will still need to learn a lot more in order to fully implement Photoshop. If you are a beginner, buy this book first and realize that you will have to buy another book as soon as you are done with it. You might also supplement this book adequately with online tutorials and Photoshop Magazine. If your goals are modest in Photoshop, then this book may do it all for you. My goals, being an artist and using it, were not modest.