Photoshop CS2 Killer Tips

by Felix Nelson and Scott Kelby

Packed cover-to-cover, wall-to-wall with Photoshop CS2 sidebar tips, this work is designed to make you work faster, smarter, and have fun using Photoshop CS2. There are no detailed descriptions of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321330633
• ISBN13: 9780321330635
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: New Riders Publishing
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Quick Tips

If you like straight to the point tips, this book is for you. It helps speed up your work flow and learn all the misc stuff associated with Photoshop.

Photoshop CS2 Killer Tips

Awesome book. Full of amazing tips-could not use the program to it's fullest without this book.

Good for Reference

I loved this book but it took a lot of effort to read it. That may sound funny but the format of this book is nothing but tip after tip after tip and that can get old pretty quick. If you can stand it, read through the whole thing. Then you'll find yourself either using the tips you've learned, or like me stopping and saying to yourself, "Uh, wasn't there a tip about how to do this faster?" at which point you refer back to the book and find the quicker way to do what you were doing. Did you know that you create a flattened layer from your whole layered document without flattening the image? Yep, Mac: command-option-shift-E, Win: cntrl-alt-shift-E. Something I learned from the book that has changed my life with Photoshop. Cool.

Just the tips

Some Photoshop books purport to teach you how to use Adobe's flagship image editor. Others help you sharpen your skills. This one simply presents an array of useful and unusual tips, and it's hard to argue with that. The techniquews are clearly presented, and should appeal to any level of expertise. Whether you are still attempting to scrabble up the learning curve, or are already a Photoshop veteran, you'll find something to use within the pages of this book.

What You Need to Move Up in Skill

After you are familiar with Photoshop you can get a lot done. But then you meet someone who is a true pro and you learn that what you did works, but what he does works better, faster and easier than your approach. He (or she) just happens to know a shortcut, a tip if you will, that is specifically oriented to just what he wants at that exact time. Here the Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine (Scott Kelby) and the Creative Director of the magazine (Felix Nelson) have combined to bring several hundred of these tips to your attention. As such, these are not for beginners, many of them are simply short cuts for things that you could do using other more standardized techniques. The authors suggest that you read this book in front of your computer ready to jump in and try new things. I'd suggest instead that you don't. I suggest that you read through the book rapidly, from front to back, covering the whole thing before you start experimenting. The reason is, I find that I learn best when I actually have a need to do something. So, read it quickly, then just remember the concepts. Then when you need to do something, go back to the book. There's even a convenient couple of pages in the back of the book to make some notes to make it easy for you to find what you need. Then, every few months go through the whole book again. You'll have forgotten all the tips, and the next time you'll be working on a different project, needing to use different tips. These are the tips, the information that enable you to move from say intermediate level to advanced.