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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS one-on-one
Book Review By: Diana F. Arsenault</blockquote>
It doesn’t seem fair to even refer to this book as a “book”. It’s much more than just a book!
Deke McClelland is known worldwide as a Photoshop Master.
The things he does with Photoshop are simply magical and he does them with
such style and grace! He makes things that I previously considered extremely
difficult as simple as saying “1 2 3”. He is truly a MASTER!
This is actually a “one-on-one visual classroom” with two hours of video instruction on the accompanying CD. The minimum requirements for this classroom are:
1. Adope Photoshop CS Software.
2. 256MB of RAM.
3. 650MB of free hard disk space (350MB for Photoshop and 350MB for the One-on-One
project and video application files).
4. Color monitor with 16-bit color video card.
5. 1,024 by 768-pixel monitor resolution.
6. CD-ROM drive.
7. Apple’s QuickTime Player Software version 5.0.2 or higher.
8. PLUS you must install all sample files, total training video training software, One-on-One
Photoshop preference settings, color settings and keyboard shortcuts – (optional but recommended).
One-on-One includes the following 12 Lessons:
1. File management and navigation. File Browser. Contact Sheet II and PDF Presentation.
2. Brightness and contrast. Levels, curves, histogram and shadow/highlight commands.
3. Color balance, variations, hue/saturation and camera raw.
4. Selection tools. Select menu. Paths Palette.
5. Crop and transform. Image size. Canvas size.
6. Painting and retouching. Paint brush and healing brush. Color replacement tools. History palettes.
7. Masking functions. Color range and extract commands. Channels palette.
8. Focus adjustments. Unsharp mask, Gaussian Blur, Median and High Pass filters.
9. Layer functions and palettes. Layer menu and blending options.
10. Text and shape layers. Character and paragraph palettes and warp text.
11. Layer styles and adjustment layers. Drop shadow, bevel, emboss and the styles palette.
12. Print functions. Color settings and picture package commands.
This One-on-One classroom is setup for you to read the lesson, watch the video and then perform the step-by-step exercises which teach you Photoshop’s most powerful and essential functions.
In the words of the Master, Deke McClelland, “This book is here to take you on that journey of pain and reward. Sure, there may be occasional times when you’ll wonder if Photoshop is Adobe’s idea of the Nine Circles of Hell. But just as Dante emerged from the lowest circle by climbing down the very Devil himself, we’ll conquer Photoshop by descending directly into it and coming out the other side. We will make peace with Photoshop through understanding, the understanding borne by knowledge, the knowledge wrought by experience. Take heart, kindred spirit; mastery will be yours”.
It was a great pleasure to review this book and I feel honored to have spent this time with the MASTER!
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS one-on-one
Deke McClelland, Author
Published by: deke Press/O'Reilly
1005 Gravenstein Highway North
Sebastopol, CA 95472
(800) 998-9938
www.oreilly.com
Price: $ 39.95 US
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