Photoshop Elements 5 for Dummies (For Dummies) |
| Authors: Barbara Obermeier, Ted Padova
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Category: Book
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Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0470098104
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780470098103
ASIN: 0470098104
Publication Date: January 26, 2007
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Customer Reviews:
Rather Boring ! October 1, 2007
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
Unfortunatly we read 2 others excellent books (purchased here on Amazon) on Photoshop Elements v5.00 prior to reading this one. I think that reading the other slightly more advanced books spoilt us. This book is designed for getting very basic knowledge of all the buttons and tools, but you would get that anyway but simply exploring the software. No tutorials to read, just basic information that appears to go on and on. Around about half way through it's 370 pages it just got very repetitive. This does that and that does this. There are examples written in the book but not a lot of detailed explanations as such. The section on 'Gradients' (a very powerful Element 5 tool) was a prime example of a powerful section lightly skipped over. There was not a lot of pictures either come to think of it, just thumbnails. It's really all about written comments that only just touch the surface. Can't really say that we would recommend this book at all.
As you would expect with this type of book it's well presented but just so boring. For digital photograph novices such as myself when you own such a powerful piece of software such as Photoshop Elements 5 you need to be told 'HowTo' do things as the software is just so versatile. It needs to be explained how the Authors arrived from this to that. A 'before and after' thumbnail picture view is simply not good enough for this software. Never learnt a single thing from this book at all. All IMHO of coarse.
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