Rating: 

publication of great value

Photoshop is an essential, powerful, and sometimes a bit overwhelming imaging manipulation tool. O’Reilly’s Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One clears the fog, taking you from graphics newbie to Photoshop warrior, under the watchful, easygoing guidance of Photoshop master Deke McClelland. This full-color book, which is accompanied by nearly two hours of video tutorials on CD, is an up-close and personal training experience. Deke's classroom approach takes you step-by-step through real-world projects that help you gain Photoshop proficiency. Along the way, you'll get a good dose of graphics theory, best practices, and tips for avoiding Photoshop disasters.

This one-of-a-kind approach fills a gap in the available literature and delivers a unique learning experience.

After reading many of the easy-to-understand chapters and looking at the very well done CD, I felt that my personal skills had definitely been improved substantially. At the outset of each book-based lesson, it was very helpful to play the accompanying video lesson from the CD, which I would highly recommend to anyone trying to learn this program.

Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One

By Deke McClelland

February 2004

ISBN: 0-596-00618-7

500 pages