Photoshop CS2 Killer Tips
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Photography & Video
Photoshop CS2 Killer Tips Details
Scott Kelby and Felix Nelson (the creative team behind Photoshop User magazine) take their best-selling Photoshop Killer Tips books to a whole new level with their update for Photoshop CS2. Okay, why a book of nothing but tips? Because that's where all the really slick, really useful, and really fun stuff is. It's true! If we're looking through a book and we see the word "Tip" we're all immediately drawn to it, because we know we're about to learn something great. Maybe it's an undocumented keyboard shortcut, a hidden inside secret, or just a faster, better way to do something we do every day. The only problem with the tips in these books is that there are never enough of 'em. That is, until now. That's because this book is packed cover-to-cover, wall-to-wall with nothing but those cool Photoshop CS2 sidebar tips. Every tip is designed to make you work faster, smarter, and have more fun using Photoshop CS2. There are no detailed descriptions of CMYK separation set-ups, or long boring discussions on color management theory. It's just tips--short, sweet, and to the point. But we've done the "tip" idea one better, because every tip has a full-color graphic to make the tips even more accessible, even more fun, and even easier to use. Most importantly, to get in this book they've got to be "Killer Tips." The kind of tip that makes you smile, nod, and then call all your friends and "tune them up" with your new status as Photoshop guru. If you've wondered how the pros get twice the work done in half the time, it's because they know all the tips, and all the tricks. Now with this book, so will you.
Reviews
This book reads like an encyclopedia of random shortcuts of keystrokes to cut down your use of clicky buttons. I found it very difficult to just read from chapter to chapter because of the format the information is published in, an assembly of brief descriptions of tasks, one after the other. I couldnt just start at page 1 and read to the back cover.I'm not sure if the Mac verson of photoshop shows the shortcuts in every menu and mouse-over like the PC does so I cant speak for them. But pretty much every function that has a keystroke shortcut on the PC has that keystroke noted. The tips in this book were for the most part useless to me because over time, I've learned the shortcuts that were the most used by me.I dont recommend this book to anyone but a beginner with photoshop. The cover price of the book does not justify the few tips that could be useful. Replace this book instead by memorizing the shortcuts as you see them in the menus and try the help function in the program itself.EDIT: I purchased this book because I loved the authors book titled "down and dirty tricks". I definately recommend that book instead.