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Inside Photoshop 7
by Gary D. Bouton, Barbara Bouton, J. Scott Hamlin, Daniel Will-Harris, Robert Stanley, Mara Zebest Nathanson
Product Group: Book
Publisher: New Riders Press (2002-07-22)
ISBN: 0735712417
EAN: 9780735712416
UPC: 752064712411
Dewy Decimal #: 006.6869
Paperback: 1056 pages
SKU: C139CXH
Condition: New
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Inside Photoshop 7 is as much a work of art as the art it teaches. Like never before, it's accessible and simple to shorten your learning curve and conquer the features you need most. The new organization in this edition focuses on a hub system--a solid core of reference material and hands-on examples organized by areas of interest. Lead author Gary Bouton called on industry leaders to help flesh out every area of Photoshop interest from art to the web. Inside Photoshop 7 is your one-stop reference for understanding the concepts you need. Dozens of mini-tutorials and real-world assignments will make reading and learning from this book as much fun as the authors had creating it. - Explore new Photoshop 7 features, such as the Patch tool, the totally customizable brushes, and the Photoshop scripting language.
- Check out the Type tool functions and get a comprehensive lesson or tow on the art of typography-this book even covers typographical special effects for the web, such as text wrapping and using the Styles palette.
- Refresh your knowledge of color profiling and calibration with examples from experts in the filed of printing and proofing.
- Retouch and restore photos you thought couldn't be saved
- Get in touch with your otherworldly side and create out-of-this-world art in the Photoshop for Artists section.
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Amazon.com Review
If you're looking for a book that just about covers it all and does it in an approachable way (even when tackling nerdy topics like "bilinear interpolation"), you've found it in Inside Photoshop 7. This edition varies from previous ones in that it offers standalone chapters that address the specific needs of photographers, artists, and Web designers, along with a core of "fun, learning-based tutorials" that cover the basics.An exhaustive array of material is covered here: customizing preferences (including dealing with Scratch Disks and sufficient RAM), learning expert selection skills (including loading selections to the alpha channel), working with layers (including the powerful clipping groups), using channels and paths (with more on alpha channels), and learning the "healing tools" (like the clone stamp, healing brush, and the patch tool). Inside Photoshop 7 does an exemplary job of explaining the realities behind sticky issues like color management and input/output resolution. The task-specific sections cover, among other topics, color correction and retouching ("...for Photographers"), drawing and painting tools ("...for the Artist"), using ImageReady for rollovers and animations ("...for the Web"), and a lot more. There's even a chapter with "recipes" for various effects and tricks like compositing a man with two heads. Despite the small color gallery, the illustrations are all black and white. Not to worry: all the project files are included on the companion CD-ROM, along with clip art, stock photography, demo and freeware/shareware applications and plug-ins, and more. The authors presume "practically nothing" on the part of the readers. Among other pursuits, the Boutons write textbooks for children, which isn't surprising given the slow and enthusiastically cheerful (sometimes silly) style here. For many people, though, a friendly, painstakingly thorough, handholding approach is the only way they can learn new software. The book seems especially well suited to nonprofessionals who need or want to learn Photoshop. The fact that, unlike most Photoshop books, the screen shots are all from the Windows environment makes it even more accessible. Also, the images used as examples in the book have a homey, cartoon quality about them (alien creatures, the author dressed as a wizard) that may also appeal to newbies. --Angelynn Grant
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Customer Reviews
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Simply awful
Rating  (1)
Date: 2005-04-29
This book was simply awful. While I am very computer literate, I was completely new to photoshop 7 (and to photo-type software in general). This book decided to start by throwing me into the deep end of the pool and hoping that I could swim. I couldn't.
Not only were the explanations completely unclear, they make you do exercises without telling you why your're doing them; you can't learn when to take a specific series of actions if you don't understand when/why they would be appropriate.
Finally, the index was completely useless, at least to a beginner (perhaps if I had used prior versions it would have been more useful).
Overall, I found this book to be completely worthless. It's been sitting on my shelf gathering dust since about a week after I bought it (which was how long I tried to muddle my way through it). There MUST be better books on the subject out there. Try one. Any of them!
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simply unbearable
Rating (1)
Date: 2005-03-05
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
The author of this book is the classic example of the fact that someone who is an expert in a particular field is sometimes a terrible tutor for it. Writing style is unbearable, explanations are totally unclear and this book ends up being unapproachable for newbies and useless for experts. I am sure wheter the newer CS edition is any better but I think I will stay away...
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Inside Photoshop 7
Rating  (3)
Date: 2004-10-25
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I was entirely new to Photoshop 7 and so I decided to go thru the book page by page. The first chapter led me thru steps, but I wasn't sure what I had done when I was thru. I was instructed to select tools that I had no reasonable way of knowing where they were located, many hidden behind tiny icons which I have come to realize is Adobe's M.O., but very frustrating to a new user. The cutsie humor is lost on a frustrated reader trying to locate a tool. Some of the time he describes in detail step by step how to do an exercise but you're not sure what you are trying to achieve. The next time he assumes you know how and you don't have a clue where to start. After the first few chapters he surprisingly starts to tell you more detailed step by step instructions. Once I figured out on my own where many of the tools, option bar selections and palettes were I got a lot of information out of the book and have gone on to enjoy it.
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Not as advanced as I hoped it to be !
Rating (3)
Date: 2003-10-05
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I read all the reviews about this book and was sure I hit gold - but This is a very big book with very little to offer in tricks and knowledge. The best example would be the lack of any important info regarding Layer Sets - I searched the book and found that it does not tell you how to avoid the effect adjustments layers ,when applied to nested layers, have on the external layers below them (the answer is to avoid the pass through blending mode which is not even mentioned in the book). All I know about PS is from FREE video tutorials you may find on the net and some written ones. Save the money and get some Pizza.
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Best I've seen
Rating  (5)
Date: 2003-09-03
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Granted I'm just starting to get my feet wet but this is the best book I've come across so far. The Classroom in a book series is good to start out with but to get really in depth, this is where to go. Unlike the Bible series, it gives you excercises and shows you what the tools are supposed to accomplish. I've talked to old pros of photoshop and they swear by it and as a rookie, I swear by it. I just wish a book like this existed for the other programs I'm working on. Can you tell I like it?
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