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 : Photoshop Finishing Touches

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780321441669
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0321441664
Label: Peachpit Press
Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: July 15, 2006
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Studio: Peachpit Press




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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
If you're primarily interested in finishing touches--the million creative ways you can use your favorite software to improve, polish, and add pizzazz to your images--this is the book for you! The first book devoted exclusively to the topic, Finishing Touches for Photoshop CS2 offers a treasure chest of creative finishing techniques. With chapters on frames and border effects, color and artistic effects, presentation, sharpening, and printing, this full-color guide covers everything from creative cropping to dramatic lighting, stock photos, collage ideas, combining black-and-white and color, selective blurring, storybook layouts, PDF presentation, and more. Each technique is a stand-alone tutorial, so you can jump in at any point without weeding through a lot of info that's not relevant to the task at hand. Even better, author Dave Cross' two-column format--with simple instructions in one column and lavish, full-color photos and artwork running alongside--makes the techniques instantly accessible. You'll also find several variations for most techniques as well as instructions for creating reusable templates.






Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Photoshop CS2 Help Desk book
Author: Dave Cross
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press (June 27, 2005)
ISBN-10: 0321337042
ISBN-13: 978-0321337047

Review by Karen Stansel
June 23, 2008

I know the book states CS2, and since the only version of Photoshop that I own is CS3, I was a little leery of buying a book that was written specifically for another version of this software. Was I going to end up with a book that made no sense to me? After all, I am a ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Photoshop Finishing Touches
This book is a really good learning tool. I have others that are my instant "go to" books when I've forgotten how to do something....but this one has things in it that aren't in my other books that are a definite PLUS!



Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Very Disappointed with redundencies
My primary disatisfaction with the book stems from the repetition throughout the book of the identical 2 pages of content to illustrate a particular feature. If it were better organized it would have eliminated at least 20 pages of redundency. The space would have been better used to illustrate additional photoshop solutions. Also, a traditional index in the front of the book would have better served the reader. Very much overpriced for the content provided



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent Photoshop instruction
This was my first exposure to Dave Cross - he is a consumate educator! I found PHOTOSHOP Finishing Touches to be chocked full of great tips, techniques and approaches to image manipulation. Dave's Finishing Touches goes far beyond the mechanical keystrokes to produce results - even though he does this exceedingly well. Gently nestled between the lines of names of Layer styles and menu bars Dave delivers critical information of great value to even the most advanced Photoshop users.

Finishing ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Step up your images!
Fabulous book! I will keep right by my computer for continued reference! Excellent, easy to understand techniques to move your images to the next level! Throughly enjoyed the book and the author! Highly recommended!







 






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