Photoshop CS / CS2 Wow! Book, The, 1/e (WOW!) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Linnea Dayton, Cristen Gillespie
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
List Price: $64.99
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 39682
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Dvdr
Pages: 800
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.5 x 1.8
ISBN: 0321213459
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
UPC: 785342213454
EAN: 9780321213457
ASIN: 0321213459
Publication Date: October 22, 2006
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Product Description
Ever since Photoshop version 2.5, The Photoshop Wow! Book has enlightened and inspired graphic designers, illustrators, and photographers around the globe. This newest edition delivers the familiar award-winning mix of explanations and step-by-step tutorials for creating both commercial and fine-art images, with tips and beautiful galleries that distinguish this book as the most inspiring Photoshop resource around. Redesigned for easy reference, Photoshop CS/CS2 Wow! also includes new short features in which professional photographers and designers let you in on their creative secrets for quick solutions. The DVD-ROM includes hundreds of before-and-after tutorial files, Layer Styles and Patterns, as well as Actions, gradients, custom tools, and other goodies. You’ll learn the most innovative techniques for creating and enhancing images, graphics, and type, including:
• How and when to use the new features in Photoshop CS and CS2, including the Spot Healing Brush, Lens Correction, Lens Blur, Vanishing Point, and Variables
• How to build your skill with familiar Photoshop features such as blend modes, adjustment layers, channels, and filters
• How to focus attention on the subject of a photo, retouch a portrait, tint an image, or convert a color image to black-and-white
• How to bring out your inner artist with Photoshop’s sophisticated brushes and vector-drawing tools
• How to create dazzling special effects for type and graphics?from custom textures and realistic materials to animation and rollover for the web
• How to build a striking layout or a seamless composite, including the little details that make a big difference in the art of creating illusions
• How to keep your creations organized with layers, layer set or groups, layer comps, and Smart Objects
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Colorizing B&W photos help May 27, 2008
G. rush (Boston, MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you need help, this is where you'll find it.
The CD that comes with it is a lot of help too.
Worth the price.
Great photoshop tool March 7, 2008
Ace909 (Highland Park, IL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is another in the WOW series and even though it's for the last interation of photoshop (CS2) there is a wealth if info here. It's all in color, clearly explained. It gives you an overview of how much you can do in this amazing program and helps you develop the chops to put it to use. Nicewly structured so you can pick and choose what you need at the time if you don't want to read it cover to cover. You won't need every technique here but it gives you the tool to apply in other ways for whatever you want to do. One of the easily accessible and useful books on the subject.
Thorough; fun January 14, 2008
Gary L. Sprung (Denver, CO USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is to me the bible of Photoshop. It's so thorough and thick, and it's large number of illustrations, screen shots, and photos make it work whether I am carefully following a book example on my computer, or sitting and reading without the computer.
A Book for the Newbie and the Expert November 11, 2007
S. C. Anderson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Let me begin by saying that this book is BIG, slightly bigger than a hard backed dictionary or textbook. If you plan on carrying this around in a backpack or ferrying it between school/work and home, don't.
This book has a humongous, colorful wealth of information. I guarantee that this book will show you how to do ANYTHING you could possibly want to do in Photoshop. Whether you plan on reading it straight through or using it as a reference book (I recommend the latter), you will appreciate the collection of tips and tricks this book has to offer.
Covering everything from picture touchups to full fledged graphic design, this book is artfully written and painstakingly thorough in its design. With pictures demonstrating everything, along with the helpful and easy to follow text, this book is great for those wanting to really get into Photoshop. If you're a graphic artist or have a job that requires the use of Photoshop, this book will expand your knowledge and understanding of Photoshop. Whether you're new to photoshop or a professional, this book is definitely a wise investment to help further your Photoshop skills.
Top Notch July 26, 2007
Renee Wester
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is your Photoshop Bible that you should keep with you at all times! I just hate that I paid $65 for it at Borders, when I could have gotten it here for MUCH less!
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