Adobe Photoshop 5 Productivity Kit [With Sample Images, Adobe Fonts, Photoshop Plug-Ins ...]

by Adobe Creative Team

A book of "recipes", a CD full of "ingredients", and clear, simple techniques to give users immediate productivity. The CD-ROM contains fonts, image samples, templates, and plug-ins for use in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568304641
• ISBN13: 9781568304649
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Adobe Press
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Lives up to its name

I found this book to be extremely helpful, as I tend to use certain of Photoshop's elements on a regular basis, and need a refresher on others at times. The cross-program aspect of the book appealed to me, as I have the graphics suite and need to use it more fully. The instructions are clear and easy to follow, and the templates, etc. on the cd are a bonus. Well worth the money.

Neat and Practical

This book is a color one and is different from the Classroom In A Book series that is all black and white. This little book is a practical one since it goes right into the 26 hands-on projects. It is useful for those who are new to Photoshop. It's very important for one to practice in order to understand and be proficient in using Photoshop. The reason is ideas will automactically come our your mind when you use it very often. It covers masking, color correction and other exercises. This book is like a companion to Classroom In A Book. A newbie can quickly feel the power of Photoshop that helps in creativity and productivity. The 26 projects are enough to help you to do simple graphics for web purpose as well as simple photo retouching. The CD comes with fonts, clip art and other plugins. As a professional designer, I have other resources like these. Therefore I don't find the CD is useful to me. If you are a newbie, you will like this book as well as the CD. It doesn't cover ImageReady 2.0 and I wonder if they will publish a second edition for Photoshop 5.5. The only down side of this book is the price is a bit expensive for such a little book.

An excellent result-oriented book which will fascinate you

A Photoshop novice will have to handle a lot of prose in most of the existing books in the market. Before he can have some of the fun, he will have to go through pages of information about all the menus, commands and tools or about scanning. After that, she will be confrontated with boring selection exercises. By that time, most of her motivation may be over and she will try to acomplish the desired tasks by herself. This user will try to enhance photos by using simple color correction settings instead of levels, by using an error-prone selection tool instead of the quick mask mode. And so on. Until after this book came. Now a novice or beginner's level user can easily jump start with some really powerful tools that Photoshop offers. He/she will find out how wonderful it can be when the motivation and the momentum is kept alive. He/she will also have troubles getting back to the prose-filled, tell-you-all books when she/he wants to get deeper in the subject matter. This is a great book!