The Photoshop 6 Wow! Book [With CDROM]

by Linnea Dayton and Jack Davis

This title includes examples of Photoshop artistry, with coverage of filters, photoenhancement, layers, painting, special effects, and using Photoshop with the Web. The CD-ROM contains before and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201722089
• ISBN13: 9780201722086
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 471 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Work of Art

Linnea Dayton and Jack Davis have done it again. The Photoshop Wow! series of books just keeps getting better (and thicker) with each new version of Adobe's Photoshop. Found on the shelves of most Web designers the Wow! series has become a standard other books can only hope to match. The latest v6 edition outdoes the previous series with over 200 stunning full-color before/after tutorials.Designed to help you get the most out of Photoshop and Imageready, this book covers the gamut from what's new in version 6, to fancy special effects, filter use, handy shortcuts, scans and color corrections, and Web graphics optimization and animation. The photo retouching chapter alone is worth the price of admission.One of my favorites is chapter 8, where you learn how to make special effects for type and graphics. Learn how Apple got that cool clear plastic look, how to do neon, glass, and custom chrome.The companion CD-ROM comes chock full of matching tutorial files, 300 preset layer styles, 50 automated rollover styles, improved actions, gobs of ready to use artwork, and more.Unlike the earlier "blow-them-away-you-already-know-Photoshop" editions, this one shows you how to work more effectively with Photoshop, *and* blow them away with your graphics expertise. The book is a wonderful way to improve your Photoshop skills, and an inspiration with its example artwork from top designers.

WOW! Buy this book FIRST.

I'm an amateur photographer. Initially, all I wanted to do with Photoshop is crop a scanned picture and maybe change a bit of its background. After several weeks of searching three other books for what I wanted to achieve, it became patently clear that 1) Photoshop was an extremely deep and complex program, and 2) I would never be able to accomplish simple tasks unless I dedicated my life to the study of Adobe. Then one day, The Photoshop 6 WOW! book's colorful presentation caught my eye. One hour later, I had not only cropped my photo and given it an entirely different background, but I fully understood what I had done and learned some additional tricks along the way. This book's graphics are delicious and the accompanying text clearly explains each step required to reproduce them. You will be compelled to try everything.

Simply the best for beginners, reference or advanced effects

For learning and mastering an impressive package like Photoshop 6 I usually say that you need 3 kinds of materials: 1. A beginners guide to show you the framework and teach you how the basics work; 2. A detailed reference volume for when you need to research the solution to a problem on your own; 3. A selection of impressive advanced effects to give you inspiration and solutions to common advanced problems. If you have access to these 3, all you need is sweat and time. Few books have it all, since many of these functions seems to contradict with each other. Another common flaw is that many books show you very impressive effects, and how to carry them out, but after doing so, when the initial "Wow! Look what I just made!" fades away, you have learned almost nothing and understand very little about how the effect was made.Based on these criteria, I have to conclude that The Photoshop 6 Wow! Book has it all. This is definitely not my first book on Photoshop 6, but I wish it was. It would have saved me quite a few bucks, and taught me more in the same time.My personal interest is creating illustrations, not so much applying effects to photos or making web graphics. But still the Wow! Book covers it all to a very satisfying degree, in fact with so much depth and detail, that this book doubles as my reference volume. Also it patiently takes its time to make sure beginners understand all the key concepts in Photoshop.I am impressed. Very impressed. My verdict will have to be the old cliché about, "this is the only book you'll need". But it can easily be the only book you'll need for a loooooong time. Feel free to mail me if you have questions.

Dayton and Davis Do it Again with WOW 6

This is one of the most anticipated books of the year... Linnea Dayton and Jack Davis didn't rush to the bookshelves to get the latest WOW when Photoshop 6 launched... but rather took their time to produce a blockbuster collection of the best before/after tutorials in the industry -- 200 of them! Photoshop WOW 6 will prove to be a treasured addition to any Photoshop users bookshelf. Owners of WOW 5, 4, and 3 books won't be disappointed either... the CD with WOW 6 includes dozens of new Actions, Custom Presets, and more than 300 knock-out Layer Styles, PLUS more than 50 all new automated Rollover Styles. __ I've reviewed a lot of Photoshop 6 Books in the past year -- some of which deserve the coveted 5-Star rating. But Linnea and Jack's new WOW 6 definitely takes the cake! Is there a 6th Star? __ If you ever actually learn everything in this book, it also makes a superb coffee-table book for hours of visual treats! ___ This one earns Dayton and Davis the Designer's Bookshelf EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD for August, 2001.

The Bible of Photoshop: no more, no less...

When I first started using more seriously Adobe Photoshop, I went shopping for a book which I could have next to me when I had a challenge I could not find my way out of. After a few hours browsing through the tons of options out there for books on the topic, I came to the conclusion that this book had it all: well laid out, comprehensive, self-explanatory, printed in color... you name it! After I checked with some designers friend I have, they confirmed my choice: WOW! is the book of choice to cover all Photoshop stuff you can think of -web, print, etc.