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The Adobe Photoshop 7 Wow Book (Wow! Books)
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Product Description
Jack is back with the update to his best-selling, award-winning Photoshop Wow! Book! Readers have hailed previous versions of Jack Davis¿s landmark book as the "most useful Photoshop book ever" because of its practical, real-life solutions and its value-packed CD-ROM. The The Photoshop 7 Wow! Book simply ups the ante with even more time-saving techniques—completely updated for Adobe Photoshop 7.
In the The Photoshop 7 Wow! Book, the focus is on the visuals: Using beautiful, full-color pictures of professionally designed Photoshop projects, this volume clearly lays out the steps required to re-create these spectacular results in your own projects. To work visually, you need to think visually, and this book allows you to do just that. As with all of the titles in this popular series, the emphasis here is on results—how to produce the best work in the fewest steps possible. And sometimes that means using techniques even Adobe hasn¿t thought of, such as the Wow! Media Painting and Layer Style techniques introduced here.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #602322 in Books
- Published on: 2003-03-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 471 pages
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Jack is back with the update to his best-selling, award-winning Photoshop Wow! Book! Readers have hailed previous versions of Jack Davis¿s landmark book as the "most useful Photoshop book ever" because of its practical, real-life solutions and its value-packed CD-ROM. The The Photoshop 7 Wow! Book simply ups the ante with even more time-saving techniques—completely updated for Adobe Photoshop 7.
In the The Photoshop 7 Wow! Book, the focus is on the visuals: Using beautiful, full-color pictures of professionally designed Photoshop projects, this volume clearly lays out the steps required to re-create these spectacular results in your own projects. To work visually, you need to think visually, and this book allows you to do just that. As with all of the titles in this popular series, the emphasis here is on results—how to produce the best work in the fewest steps possible. And sometimes that means using techniques even Adobe hasn¿t thought of, such as the Wow! Media Painting and Layer Style techniques introduced here.
About the Author
Jack Davis is author of the award-winning and best-selling guide to Photoshop, The Photoshop Wow! Book, as well as the Web Design Wow! Book and Adobe Photoshop 7 One-Click Wow! For almost 20 years, Jack has been an internationally recognized creative spokesperson on digital imagery and the visual communication process. He routinely teaches as part of the "Dream Team" at the National Association of Photoshop Professional's Photoshop World Conferences, and monthly at his own national Wow! seminars. Jack was recently nominated to the NAPP Photoshop Hall of Fame.
Customer Reviews
a minor update
I was disappointed to find that this was just a minor revision of the previous excellent Photoshop 6 WOW book. I was expecting a whole new lot of examples and tutorials but the same stuff is rehashed but on a smaller scale. If you've already got the last book, don't bother to get this.
Almost worth a WOW!
A very useful resource book which has the added advantage of being basic enough to get the beginner started. Lots of very useful goodies although some that are of less obvious use.
Lots of examples that can be easily adapted to your own work although it is not always easy to follow what the author is doing which is why I say it is almost worth a WOW!
I found it worth the money and would recommend it to anyone as a 'keep handyon the shelf' when your own inspiration fails.
Disorganised. Not for new users.
I was hoping this book would take me from casual familiarity with Photoshop to a more advanced level but I found the book to be hopelessly disorganised in the crucial early chapters. Invariably assumptions were made relating to material in later chapters and there were too many references to items in later chapters breaking the flow of comprehension. In Chapter 1 I found there was far too much bold text crowding each page. Bad signal-to-noise ratio which impedes learning. The book needs more worked examples but the quality of the grphics in the sidebars was excellent.
