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 enlarge | Author: Steve Caplin
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
List Price: £25.99
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 79840
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 7.1 x 1.8
ISBN: 024051985X
Dewey Decimal Number: 771
EAN: 9780240519852
ASIN: 024051985X
Publication Date: August 11, 2005
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Fantastic Book July 12, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Squeezed between the covers of this book is an enormous amount of essential information about how to do just about everything with Photoshop with a little bit of Illustrator thrown in for good measure. The author starts the book off with one of the best visual demonstrations of how to use Photoshop to make selections, replace colours, and many more. Using commercial illustrations he has created for national magazines and newspapers he shows how he achieved the effects with just enough information to allow you to be able to create a similar photo treatment without making it so complicated that it puts you into a comma reading it. While the latest edition doesn't cover all of the new CS2 tools, it covers the ones necessary for those that do photo clean-ups or manipulation. He even explains how the 3D model feature in Photoshop works - a topic most authors neatly avoid.
The quality of the book is great. The colours in the examples are vibrant and it is visually appealing enough to warrant just sitting down and flipping through the book to get ideas for a project.
Excellent May 7, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is absolutely fantastic. Easy to follow, hard to put down.
It's techniques are applicable regardless of which software you use.
The King of the castle! More to this book than meets the eye May 7, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having spent an entire afternoon sifting through 50 photoshop books (many using poor quality black and white postage stamp sized photos with pages and pages of forgettable text!)in the two massive Waterstones' bookshops of Birmingham, I found one that was able to deliver dozens and dozens of stunning professional images and effects each with their own easy and quick to use step-by-step tutorials.
There is advice on getting free very high quality photos from listed sites. There are also detailed illustrations of some truly remarkable "plug-ins" sites that will not cost an "arm and a leg." And lastly Steve Caplin has an active website where he and others are willing to help.
This book (How to cheat in Photoshop)give you a never-ending highly desirable "eye candy" appeal which makes it a hugely enjoyable experience.
If you think the above is pure hyperbole, then watch it evaporate when you get the book.
Superb Photoshop Book October 9, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is perfect for anyone wanting to create great looking affects on photoshop, without having to know everything. Though by reading it to the end you probably will, the best computer book i have ever bought. A***
One of the best out there! November 6, 2004
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've purchased many 'how to'books on Photoshop, and Steve Caplin's 'How to cheat in Photoshop' is the closest book to hand, when I'm using PhotoshopCS. I've followed many othertutorials in the past, but this book shows you how to do effects in just a few mouse clicks, rather than trawling through pages of instructions. The book also comes with a CD Rom with all the tutorial and image files to help you, plus step by step videos and much more. This book is highly recommended.
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