Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One

Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One
Authors
Deke McClelland
ISBN
0596521898
Published
28 Oct 2008
Purchase online
amazon.com

How can you master the fundamentals of Photoshop CS4, with all of its incredible features? Deke McClelland's proven One-on-One learning system offers step-by-step tutorials, five hours of DVD-video demonstrations, and hands-on projects to improve your knowledge and hone your skills. Read about features such as Photoshop's new Adjustments panels in the book, and see how they're used first-hand in the video.Author Deke McClelland's Photoshop CS4 One-on-One Top Ten New Features Roundup

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Customer Reviews

G. Lee Shelton said
Typical of Deke McClelland, the video is thorough and understandable. The book text takes understanding to the next level with the exercises using the included files. Highly recommended. Excellent coverage of the features of CS4.

Terrie Lynn Bittner said
Nothing prepared me to find nude women in the book or on the video. They may be bent over or in a blowing towel, but all the same, this is a computer book. A wise author would not risk offending viewers without warning.

If you're buying this for a teen or if you're conservative, you can find a non-offensive book, I'm sure. I'm just hoping I can return it since I opened the video before discovering the pictures.

Abbott Schindler said
In typical DekeMcClelland style, the step-by-step descriptions are detailed, understandable, and precise. This is not your typical Photoshop manual: it really reads like a well thought-out tutorial on how to use Photoshop CS4 capabilities in the context of a logical image correcting workflow. The prose is almost conversational, as though the reader was sitting in a workshop and the book was doing the talking. I think the procedures described and their order (Deke's prescribed PSCS4 workflow) is excellent.

The book comes with an excellent disc containing several hours of video tutorials from Lydia.com. These are very well done and complement the book beautifully. These are real, detailed tutorials and not snippets: you'll learn from them. Between the tutorials and the lessons in the book, I really felt like I'd gotten a "one-on-one" course in Photoshop, and my ability to edit photos was definitely improved. The discussions on masks and the uses of layers were terrific.

One-on-One is more of a series of detailed lessons than a reference book. I appreciated the clear descriptions of how tools worked and why the author chose particular sequences and ways of doing things. A small nit: while all tools and capabilities seem to be represented in the index, some corresponding techniques are not. For example, "free transform" is there, but "transform" is not.

I found many of the "Sidebar" comments--which are often 1-2 pages long--distracting. The problem isn't the content, which is invariably very useful: the problem is where the sidebars fall. Too often a sidebar will be placed between two pages of a detailed procedure or other discussion. I found this placement distracting. At other times, sidebars are politely placed between logical discussions and their pages referenced in the text. After encountering a number of distractingly placed sidebars, I found myself wishing that they'd been appended to the chapters and referenced appropriately.

As a long-time, "somewhere between beginner and intermediate" Photoshop user, I'd readily recommend this book to people new to image editing and to new PSCS4 users, even if you've used earlier versions of Photoshop. The book is written with a friendly, informative, and accessible style and the content should appeal to many beginning and intermediate Photoshop users.

Larry A. Deforest said
First of all, I'm no expert at CS4, but I am far from being a novice when it comes to image editing. I did the first two chapters of this book and decided not to wait to purchase the second volume: Photoshop CS4 Channels & Masks One-on-One. The book, the accompanying DVD and the organization of the lessons, exercises and projects make these books an excellent value for learning CS4. Who better to learn from than someone who makes a good living doing what he loves to do?

Kimberly S. said
Not a computer person. This book is an easey & comprehensive, step by step guide. You MUST read ALL instructions B4 U start. The short cut plug ins for CS4 ONLY. U MUST follow instructions EXACTLY. There REALLY is a right way & a wrong way. Don't just download it anywhere. If done wrong, it can B a nightmare and mess up your PS settings. It's 4 CS4 ONLY. Also, U must open a web browser in background, THEN open C/D & lessons. Have fun! It's one of my favs.(I typed like this bcuz I didn't have enuff room 4 all the letters)

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