A class but not a manual | Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book

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	• Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book Adobe Creative Team Adobe Press, 2007 - 496 pages average customer review:based on 81 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

great how-to guide

I used this book for my Photoshop class and it was extremely helpful and insightful!

A class but not a manual

I reference this book as a suggested learning tool in another review, but it is not the kind of a book I like to use. The "Classroom in a Book" volumes are exactly that - lessons done a step at a time. If you are one of those people who don't move at the pace of the slowest student, you may get frustrated with this technique.

I find this book to be chatty and rather unhelpful as a reference. One's only choice as a user is to do the exercises one at a time in order. There are some benefits to that, but if you already know what you want to do, getting there is slow. That said, Photoshop is a huge piece of software and you have to start somewhere. At least this course gets the basics out of the way. As a first look at Photoshop, it is OK.

If you really want to understand Photoshop(after getting an understanding of the basics) look at Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC, which gives seven hundred pages of specific how-to advice for photographers who are already in possession of the basic concepts. Don't go there as a first step, though, because you will be lost unless you take a course like this one first.

The real problem after all is that Photoshop is just hard to learn because there are so many concepts and individual, often similar, tools. Also, there are competing approaches that are slightly different, but one is clearly better than the other in some situations. It takes some time to figure all that out, and no book is really going to get you there. You just have to get some experience.

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Fantastic Self Study Program

I would say these are very similar to the Apple Pro series and I really found it (and the other Adobe books) very helpful in self teaching. I hope to actually attend an Adobe live class soon, but this was well worth the money!

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Adobe Photoshop

This is a great book. It gives you detailed information on how to use the software. The step by step directions are great. I would recommend to anyone.

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