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Discover the wonders of Photoshop as you learn how to create humorous images and art. I've Got a Human in My Throat: Create MORE Optical Delusions with Adobe® Photoshop® uses hands-on tutorials to teach you specific Photoshop tricks and techniques. Each new Photoshop skill that is taught is showcased through comical images, making the useful and easy-to-learn tips fun and interesting. Organized into three sections, basic through more advanced Photoshop tools and capabilities are introduced and source images are included on the accompanying CD so that you can follow along with each tutorial. Impress your friends--and yourself--as you build up your Photoshop skill arsenal while you distort, render, and create amazing and funny images.


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Worth1000.com is a highly-popular, Photoshop-based graphic design web site that sponsors numerous Photoshop art contests, many of which feature humorous, spoof, and surreal images. It was recently chosen as one PC Magazine¿s top 100 websites online, and its images has been featured in USAToday, on CNN, Good Morning America and even the cover of the New York Post, amongst other major media outlets. Worth1000.com receives over 200,000 visitors per day and boasts more than 100,000 registered members.

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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (January 19, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1598630709
  • ISBN-13: 978-1598630701
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #354,234 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Tutorials, January 27, 2006
First off, a huge congrats to anyone involved with this book. It shows how much time and effort went into the making of this book from the sheer about of tutorials it offers. There is a different Photoshop technique on just about every other page.

I've Got a Human in My Throat has three sections: Getting Started, Exploring Photos and Effects, and Impressing Your Friends. On the included CD are all of the source images required to create each of the pieces in the book.
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Pleasantly Surprised By This Book!, April 23, 2006
By East Coast Mommy (East Coast USA) - See all my reviews
I was VERY skeptical about buying this one because I was so dissapointed with the last book Worth1000 put out (ISBN: 1592005241) ....So I finally checked it out at our local book store and was surprised to find out they improved A LOT from the last one.

For one, they actually include the source images, then they even tell you how to create them...instead of the last book where they SHOW you lots but only let you in on a few of the more boring techniques....LOL

I like that they include most of the effects used in the contests on thier site...sorta like a handbook for entering contests on Worth. They don't bog the book down with all the boring "how to use Photoshop tools" steps (which you should either know already before creating these things or be able to find out instantly on the web or in the MANUAL)...They give you enough info to know how to do the effects but still leave it flexible enough to use on your own images and ideas.

I am technically still considered a newbie to Photoshop and image manipulation but I can understand the info given in this book and it helps me create all the things I've been wondering about....but if your like the previous reviewer that has trouble unless EVERY single step is explained in detail and only want to create exact duplicates of an effect, then you might be better off with another type of book first. This book is definitely for the "creative" mind.

I have always looked around hoping for even just a peek into the minds of these creative people on Worth who make such unbelievable images....and now thanks to this book, I have a lot more than a peek! Soon I'll be "wow'ing" others!
Thanks for the creative nudge Worth!
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36 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Very poor documentation, April 10, 2006
By P. Smith (Northeast) - See all my reviews
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When I first thumbed through this book, I was very impressed and excited by all of the special effects covered in this book. I was really wowed by this book. However, when I actually began reading through the instructions for the examples, I realized just how poorly written the instructions are. Multiple steps are left out. For those who are not advanced in the use of Photoshop, this book is going to go right past you. In the example of putting a giraffe's neck on a zebra's body the reader is told to clone out the zebra's neck (a step)then use the Edit>Transform command to place and manipulate the neck of a giraffe on that of the zebra (another step) and then to clone on stripes to the giraffe's neck (that's a step). Those are your instructions- that's it folks. No explanation of how to use the Transform tool (not a beginner's tool) in this situation or how the author carried out the cloning (which cloning tool, what size/type brush, where he cloned from on the zebra back end, how he got the stripes to line up on the neck and blend into the body, etc.etc.) Very, very poor. For the advanced Photoshoper who can read between the lines, this isn't a problem but then if you already know how to do it as I did, what's the point of owning the book?. For the beginner to intermediate user, this is not the book for you.I feel sorry for the person who wowed and excited and is expecting actual step by step explanations of the examples in the book from the great reviews here at Amazon. I can't help but think other reviewers were drawn in by the wow factor like I was at the beginning. If someone really wants to see just how poor the examples are, check out Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook by Tim Shelbourne (O'Reilly) and compare it to I've Got a Human In My Throat. Shelbourne's book covers most of the same effects but actually gives true step by step examples including screenshots of Photoshop menus and dialog boxes which are rare in I've Got A Human in My Throat. Put the two books side by side and then decide if you really want to buy I've Gota Human In My Throat. Tim Shelbourne's book is a much better choice if you want to purchase a special effects book. There are other good choices out there as well. I've Got A Human in my Throat is just very nice eye candy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I've Got a Human in my Throat
Everything such as shipment, condition, etc. were just as portrayed. Book was protected well in shipping.
Published on August 30, 2007 by Geraldine Gl Lucas

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantanstic & Fun
This book is fantastic. I am a student in Photoshop, and found this book very easy to use. I had great fun with it. A must have.
Published on March 13, 2007 by Michael Meuser

5.0 out of 5 stars "I've Got a Human in My Throat"
"I've Got a Human in My Throat" is crammed with fabulous Photoshop projects that are fun to do and great learning tools. Read more
Published on January 22, 2007 by tiskab

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy tutorials teach cool effects
Although it is not a beginners book on Photoshop, I've Got a Human in my Throat takes readers from basic tasks in photoshop to more complex and impressive tricks. Read more
Published on November 6, 2006 by Steven Williams

3.0 out of 5 stars Worst. Cover art. Ever.
This crappy cover (and its non sequitur title) serve only to frighten Photoshop enthusiasts from the completely usable content within.
Published on June 29, 2006 by Jeremy Sale

5.0 out of 5 stars so many tutorials
even though I wrote 3 of the tutorials, I was amazed at how much I learned from the other gazillion of them in the book, holy cow! What talented people there on at worth1000.com
Published on February 16, 2006 by Craig Musselman

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding mix of tutorials and eye candy!
The Worth1000.com team has done it again... another excellent example of a self-organizing community of creative people producing a collaborative work of art. Read more
Published on February 9, 2006 by C. Ross

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