Customer Rating: 
Summary: Photoshop
Comment: The price was right, the book was like new, and delivery on time. I was very satisfied
with the sender.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Photoshop CS2 Bible
Comment: Never received the book. When I went to "Where's My Stuff?" no orders were listed even though I did not receive my order. Could not find a phone number or any other way to contact Amazon about my order. I WILL NEVER USE AMAZON AGAIN!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Keep your copy of Photoshop CS2 Bible always near computer
Comment: Who said that one book can't contain all information about Photoshop CS2? That person just never had "Photoshop CS2 Bible" by Wiley Publishing.
This book is really amazing. But, please, don't die down when you see this book. Yes, it's big, yes it's thick, but it has everything, absolutely everything that you wanted, want or would love to know about Photoshop CS2.
Take a look at content and you will see everything that waits you ahead in this book. But, again, please, don't get heart attack and just remember - don't cry out before you heart. It contains a lot of information, but this book will really help you in any way that you can imagine.
I work with Photoshop from 4th version (and Photoshop CS2 is 9th) and even i discovered new things from this book. It's very hard to describe all interesting things that you will find in this book, but i will give it a shot. In couple of words you will get acquaintance with painting & brushes, filling & stroking, selections, masks, filters, corrective filters, masking, extractions and much, much, much more.
If you intend to get close with Photoshop, then my advice to you is to keep you copy of "Photoshop CS2 Bible" always near you computer. For a couple of weeks i was intensively worked in Photoshop and every time i needed to remember smth of find information quick - this book never let me down. And it will not let you down.
From this book you will take only the newest and most up-to-date information, that was very carefully organized is topic chapters, on pages you will also find very useful print screens and clear explanation of every subject.
Let's also face the fact that not all people who read that sort of a books are real English-speaking people, so people who are not native English will be also surprised how easy they can read and understand information in it. This book is wrote with very simple language and is apprehensible for absolutely everybody.
Also some very small but helpful pull-quotes are presented for your attention as cautions, notes, tip, cross-references and, of cause, new features. In last one explains an options, commands, that is new or have differences from previous version of program. This book also contains 32 pages of full-color examples that highlights the most important moments that you will use in your work.
I know that many Photoshop users are trying to avoid such features as brushes, because from first glance they seems very complicated, but just read Part II: Chapter 5 and you will see that there is nothing complicated. All you need is just a bit of practice and improvisation- because brushes can be used for much more than simply painting with brush tool and can be absolute godsend in your everyday image-editing tasks.
Remember, different pictures call for different solutions, so just take this amazing book (or buy it), take a deep breath and go ahead - you will be wondered how simple and easy it really is, just a bit a patience and you can do everything you want or dreamed about. Enjoy!
Customer Rating:
Summary: It depends on what you're looking for?
Comment: If your goal in buying this book is to learn about every tool, button and procedure in Photoshop, then this 1000+ page book will do a fine job of that for you. If on the other hand you are looking for a book that will get you engrossed and inspired by doing fun creative projects that are unique to Photoshop, then I wouldn't even consider this book.
Despite of what the authors say, I was really disappointed that they didn't include a CD or a download site of the illustrations and examples they used in the book. It would have made it much easier to follow along and try doing the things they were suggesting. One case in point, when they they described how to use the Red-Eye tool, I couldn't find a picture with red-eye in my collection, so I just had to take their word on how it worked and move on.
The Appendix of keyboard shortcuts is the most complete you'll probably see anywhere. One small point, if they were to put in bold print the key stroke commands throughout the book, it would make it much easier to follow and do them as you move through the book. It would also make it much easier to find again when you refer back to them at a later date.
In conclusion, I'm really glad I went through this book; it filled in a lot of the details that I had missed from the first three books I've studied on Photoshop and also up-dated me on a late version of the program. I'm sure it will serve as a good reference point for when I have technical questions in the future. That said, I'm really glad it wasn't my first book on Photoshop or I might have come to see the program as being a bit of a tedious endeavor because of it's almost total lack of real-time projects.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The ultimate resource for photoshop cs2
Comment: GET THIS BOOK! THERE IS NO BETTER BOOK THAT TELLS YOU NEARLY EVERYTHIHNG! GET OVER IT... NO BOOK TELLS EVERYTHING... BUT NO BOOK WILL TELL YOU MORE!
Summary: Photoshop
Comment: The price was right, the book was like new, and delivery on time. I was very satisfied
with the sender.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Photoshop CS2 Bible
Comment: Never received the book. When I went to "Where's My Stuff?" no orders were listed even though I did not receive my order. Could not find a phone number or any other way to contact Amazon about my order. I WILL NEVER USE AMAZON AGAIN!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Keep your copy of Photoshop CS2 Bible always near computer
Comment: Who said that one book can't contain all information about Photoshop CS2? That person just never had "Photoshop CS2 Bible" by Wiley Publishing.
This book is really amazing. But, please, don't die down when you see this book. Yes, it's big, yes it's thick, but it has everything, absolutely everything that you wanted, want or would love to know about Photoshop CS2.
Take a look at content and you will see everything that waits you ahead in this book. But, again, please, don't get heart attack and just remember - don't cry out before you heart. It contains a lot of information, but this book will really help you in any way that you can imagine.
I work with Photoshop from 4th version (and Photoshop CS2 is 9th) and even i discovered new things from this book. It's very hard to describe all interesting things that you will find in this book, but i will give it a shot. In couple of words you will get acquaintance with painting & brushes, filling & stroking, selections, masks, filters, corrective filters, masking, extractions and much, much, much more.
If you intend to get close with Photoshop, then my advice to you is to keep you copy of "Photoshop CS2 Bible" always near you computer. For a couple of weeks i was intensively worked in Photoshop and every time i needed to remember smth of find information quick - this book never let me down. And it will not let you down.
From this book you will take only the newest and most up-to-date information, that was very carefully organized is topic chapters, on pages you will also find very useful print screens and clear explanation of every subject.
Let's also face the fact that not all people who read that sort of a books are real English-speaking people, so people who are not native English will be also surprised how easy they can read and understand information in it. This book is wrote with very simple language and is apprehensible for absolutely everybody.
Also some very small but helpful pull-quotes are presented for your attention as cautions, notes, tip, cross-references and, of cause, new features. In last one explains an options, commands, that is new or have differences from previous version of program. This book also contains 32 pages of full-color examples that highlights the most important moments that you will use in your work.
I know that many Photoshop users are trying to avoid such features as brushes, because from first glance they seems very complicated, but just read Part II: Chapter 5 and you will see that there is nothing complicated. All you need is just a bit of practice and improvisation- because brushes can be used for much more than simply painting with brush tool and can be absolute godsend in your everyday image-editing tasks.
Remember, different pictures call for different solutions, so just take this amazing book (or buy it), take a deep breath and go ahead - you will be wondered how simple and easy it really is, just a bit a patience and you can do everything you want or dreamed about. Enjoy!
Customer Rating:
Summary: It depends on what you're looking for?
Comment: If your goal in buying this book is to learn about every tool, button and procedure in Photoshop, then this 1000+ page book will do a fine job of that for you. If on the other hand you are looking for a book that will get you engrossed and inspired by doing fun creative projects that are unique to Photoshop, then I wouldn't even consider this book.
Despite of what the authors say, I was really disappointed that they didn't include a CD or a download site of the illustrations and examples they used in the book. It would have made it much easier to follow along and try doing the things they were suggesting. One case in point, when they they described how to use the Red-Eye tool, I couldn't find a picture with red-eye in my collection, so I just had to take their word on how it worked and move on.
The Appendix of keyboard shortcuts is the most complete you'll probably see anywhere. One small point, if they were to put in bold print the key stroke commands throughout the book, it would make it much easier to follow and do them as you move through the book. It would also make it much easier to find again when you refer back to them at a later date.
In conclusion, I'm really glad I went through this book; it filled in a lot of the details that I had missed from the first three books I've studied on Photoshop and also up-dated me on a late version of the program. I'm sure it will serve as a good reference point for when I have technical questions in the future. That said, I'm really glad it wasn't my first book on Photoshop or I might have come to see the program as being a bit of a tedious endeavor because of it's almost total lack of real-time projects.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The ultimate resource for photoshop cs2
Comment: GET THIS BOOK! THERE IS NO BETTER BOOK THAT TELLS YOU NEARLY EVERYTHIHNG! GET OVER IT... NO BOOK TELLS EVERYTHING... BUT NO BOOK WILL TELL YOU MORE!