Welcome to the first and most far-reaching training on the latest version of Adobe’s flagship image editor, Photoshop CS3. Hosted by award-winning author and Photoshop Hall of Famer Deke McClelland, Photoshop CS3 One-on-One is your opportunity to delve headlong into the new Photoshop with a seasoned, knowledgeable guide by your side. Complete with task-based projects and work-along sample files, this is the ultimate insider’s guide to Photoshop CS3.

Organized into 27 logical chapters, these 360 movies will load you up with the essential information and skills you need to become comfortable and competent with the standard edition of Photoshop CS3. Everything is here, from the newest enhancements to the reliable classics, from the absolute essentials to the most advanced techniques. As Deke says, "Photoshop CS3 One-on-One is about in-depth instruction, real-world projects, and an informal while at the same time detailed and painstakingly accurate approach. It s your chance to go from 0 to 60 in a single series. I hope you ll agree, this is one-on-one training at its best."

Photoshop CS3 One-on-One covers the following topics, with an eye toward addressing techniques in the order that they are best employed:

• Understanding what Photoshop is and what it can do
• Zooming, scrolling, and getting around an image
• Making the most of the new-and-improved CS3 interface
• Using Adobe Bridge to organize and manage images
• Saving workspaces for maximum comfort and efficiency
• Correcting colors using the Variations and Hue/Saturation commands
• Taking on the professional-grade luminance editors, Levels and Curves
• Resampling an image and selecting an interpolation setting
• Cropping and straightening a photograph
• Using the selection tools, including the new Refine Edges command
• Retouching and image and healing away blemishes
• Understanding masking, layering, and layer comps
• Sharpening, blurring, and averaging the details in a photograph
• Working with transparency and blend modes
• Working with transparency and blend modes
• Cloning and healing in perspective using Vanishing Point 2
• Creating and editing text
• Using layer effects and styles to correct photographs and achieve special effects
• Making the most of adjustment layers, smart objects, and smart filters
• Working with the wealth of new features in Camera Raw 4, including its ability to open photos saved in JPEG or TIFF
• Stitching multiple photographs seamlessly using the new and improved Auto-Align, Auto-Blend, and Photomerge
• Recording actions and printing your images

It’s a lot, to be sure. But thanks to Deke’s wit, encouragement, and charm, it goes by quickly. His promise: "Give me 7 hours a week for a solid month, and I ll turn you into the most capable Photoshop user you know." Who could say no?

Click here for the complete DVD content that accompanies this title.

Pioneering computer graphics author Deke McClelland updates his bestselling hands-on tutorial for Adobe Photoshop CS3, the latest version of this industry-standard image editing and production program. As with previous editions, Photoshop CS3 One-on-One guides readers step by step through the program’s features and functionality. A key appeal of the One-on-One series is the two hours of DVD-video material included. Once you read about a particular technique, you can see how it’s done first hand in the video. The combination is uniquely effective. And hugely popular.

Whether you’re a first-timer looking to learn Photoshop, or a seasoned user interested in the groundbreaking features of CS3, Deke’s conversational style and carefully structured lessons guide you through everything you need to know to get up and running, and then takes you well into mastery. You’ll learn to:

• Grasp fundamental and advanced concepts and theory
• Use best practices, and techniques for making the most of Photoshop CS3
• Build relevant, real-world projects
• Use Photoshop’s workflow and file handling features
• Use the combined power of Bridge + Camera Raw to process your digital photos
• Choose the right technique for converting your images to black & white
• Create beautiful multilayered documents including posters and flyers
• And much more

A Photoshop expert, sought-after computer graphics and design lecturer and author of over 70 books, Deke creates a classroom environment in Photoshop CS3 One-on-One with written instruction and video training -- except that you get one-on-one attention as you proceed from lesson to lesson at your own pace. It’s like having private lessons with the author.

Whether you’re an enthusiast, prosumer, creative pro, technical pro, or newcomer, Deke’s book will have you speaking fluent Photoshop CS3 in no time.

The complete DVD content that accompanies this title can be found here on this page.

Pioneering computer graphics author Deke McClelland updates his bestselling hands-on tutorial for Adobe Photoshop CS3, the latest version of this industry-standard image editing and production program. As with previous editions, Photoshop CS3 One-on-One guides readers step by step through the program’s features and functionality. A key appeal of the One-on-One series is the two hours of DVD-video material included. Once you read about a particular technique, you can see how it’s done first hand in the video. The combination is uniquely effective. And hugely popular.

Whether you’re a first-timer looking to learn Photoshop, or a seasoned user interested in the groundbreaking features of CS3, Deke’s conversational style and carefully structured lessons guide you through everything you need to know to get up and running, and then takes you well into mastery. You’ll learn to:

• Grasp fundamental and advanced concepts and theory
• Use best practices, and techniques for making the most of Photoshop CS3
• Build relevant, real-world projects
• Use Photoshop’s workflow and file handling features
• Use the combined power of Bridge + Camera Raw to process your digital photos
• Choose the right technique for converting your images to black & white
• Create beautiful multilayered documents including posters and flyers
• And much more

A Photoshop expert, sought-after computer graphics and design lecturer and author of over 70 books, Deke creates a classroom environment in Photoshop CS3 One-on-One with written instruction and video training -- except that you get one-on-one attention as you proceed from lesson to lesson at your own pace. It’s like having private lessons with the author.

Whether you’re an enthusiast, prosumer, creative pro, technical pro, or newcomer, Deke’s book will have you speaking fluent Photoshop CS3 in no time.

Pioneering computer graphics author Deke McClelland updates his bestselling hands-on tutorial for Adobe Photoshop CS3, the latest version of this industry-standard image editing and production program. As with previous editions, Photoshop CS3 One-on-One guides readers step by step through the program’s features and functionality. A key appeal of the One-on-One series is the two hours of DVD-video material included. Once you read about a particular technique, you can see how it’s done first hand in the video. The combination is uniquely effective. And hugely popular.

Whether you’re a first-timer looking to learn Photoshop, or a seasoned user interested in the groundbreaking features of CS3, Deke’s conversational style and carefully structured lessons guide you through everything you need to know to get up and running, and then takes you well into mastery. You’ll learn to:

• Grasp fundamental and advanced concepts and theory
• Use best practices, and techniques for making the most of Photoshop CS3
• Build relevant, real-world projects
• Use Photoshop’s workflow and file handling features
• Use the combined power of Bridge + Camera Raw to process your digital photos
• Choose the right technique for converting your images to black & white
• Create beautiful multilayered documents including posters and flyers
• And much more

A Photoshop expert, sought-after computer graphics and design lecturer and author of over 70 books, Deke creates a classroom environment in Photoshop CS3 One-on-One with written instruction and video training -- except that you get one-on-one attention as you proceed from lesson to lesson at your own pace. It’s like having private lessons with the author.

Whether you’re an enthusiast, prosumer, creative pro, technical pro, or newcomer, Deke’s book will have you speaking fluent Photoshop CS3 in no time.

good book... great price

looked in several book stores for a good ref book on Photoshop. have several o’reilly ref books already and was glad to find this one at a reasonable price... and received it in 3 days with standard shipping! nice...

Adobe CS3 One-One Tutorial Book

This is the second Photoshop tutorial by Deke Mcelland that I have purchased and well used. The first was on the CS version of Photoshop. He is easy to read and has an easy to follow format. The CS3 book is well illustrated and comes with sample photos and a very helpful "show-me" video tutorial disk. Altogether, I highly recommend the book (and the author) to anyone who is seriously interested learning PhotoShop. : - )

Great Product Condition, Fast Shipping!

I am very happy with how quickly this product got here! Thanks Amazon. Would order directly from Amazon again. But not their used/independent dealers. (The used dealers are not worth the tie and trouble they put you through).
Amazon did a great job.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 one-on-one

This book reveals how to use many valuable tools in Photoshop. I’ve been using Photoshop for many years, but this book surprises me chapter after chapter with all the hidden tools I never knew existed, or tools I didn’t know how to use such as the variations tool in adjustments and the quick select tool. Adobe Photoshop CS3 one-on-one is a "must have" reference book for photographers.

Photoshop CS3 Enhanced

The book comes with a disk that contains videos and lessons, very helpful. However it is still difficult to do the lessons. I would be lost if I were not taking a college course with an instructor and lab assistants for help.

Great Book!!!

A great book for anyone who is learning Photoshop, either at home or at school. I recommend it to anyone who is new to Photoshop.

very helpful

Only reason I don’t give it 5 stars is there is little content on graphic creation. There is a chapter dedicated to it, but I was hoping for a little more. The chapter is very helpful though. As far as learning how to edit photos with Photoshop- it could not be more helpful- it covers everything! And the CD that comes with the book is incredibly helpful as well.

Adobe InDesign CS3 "illustrated"

Deke McClelland has provided much needed details on "how to" that Adobe does not. The book’s illustrations are very clearly explained, concise and the examples are great. This book is the answer to anyone’s questions about InDesign. It is well worth the money and the illustrated DVD is an added bonus plus. I would recommend this book to anyone just starting out learning InDesign.

Essential Tutorial

A very effective tutorial for learning a complex system, Adobe Photoshop CS3. Thorough and easy to follow exercises--learn by doing.

Everything you need to know aboutg CS3 -- and more.

Deke has long been the #1 Photoshop guru in the world, and I’ve depending on his sage advice to introduce me to each new version as they are introduced. This one is especially good at showing you how to manage color, which has always been one of my weaknesses. Highly recommended.

CS3 one-on-one, A-one!!!

I have bought about ten CS3 help books, most are good, this is the best. I don’t think Deke has missed anything, and I use this as a handy reference. I don’t think you will be disappointed here.

detailed & comprehensive

This book is very detailed and easy to follow. The videos before each chapter ease you into this great learning curve.

Jump right in

It didn’t take long after installing my new copy of Photoshop for me to feel a bit overwhelmed with the software. I kept finding myself saying things like "I KNOW Photoshop can do this, but I can’t for the life of me figure out how." I visited various web sites, read little blurbs here and there, and picked up lots of good tricks, but I still didn’t feel like I really knew how to use this tool. I decided to get this book. I LOVED it. There’s still plenty of Photoshop functions that I haven’t explored yet, but all of the really useful ones are covered in this book.

There are a few things in this book that even an experienced Photoshop user may not have known, but only a very few. Most of the book is for people like me who need to start from the ground up.

Deke is a great technical writer--his instructions are easy to follow, there’s lots of information packed into each lesson, and he still manages to be entertaining. If I had any complaints about the book, it would be these two things: 1. I enjoyed the lessons so much, I want to know more--500 pages is a good start, but let’s have some more (even if it is less useful)! 2. This book came from earlier versions of Photoshop and as such, every now and then there will be a screen shot or a picture of a button or something that looks slightly different than what shows up on my screen. Not a big deal, but it threw me off for a few seconds. Despite these 2 things, I still rate the book 5 stars for a beginner audience, like I used to be.

Excellent Way to Learn Photoshop CS3

I thought this book was fantastic and worth every dollar. The book is a "you-do-it-yourself" tutorial book covering navigation and Bridge, adjusting contrast and color balance, making selections and masks, cropping and sizing, filters, how to paint and heal, using text and shapes, along with chapters dealing with layers and layer adjustments and effects. And that’s just some of the topics. It doesn’t cover every tool and feature in CS3 - just the most useful - and thank goodness or it would be a massive undertaking to get through!

I spent well over 80 hours watching the 3+ hours worth of high quality video, reading the text and explanations, and following through all the detailed exercises. A DVD accompanies the book and includes the videos and all photographs that are used in the exercises. The DVD worked for me with no problems. The full color book includes photos of what your work should look like during various stages of the exercises so it’s easy to get positive reinforcement that you’re doing it correctly. All my exercises were successful in the end.

I probably loved this book so much because it was just what I was looking for: a hands-on method for a Photoshop beginner to learn about the tools and features in Photoshop CS3 as a whole. Those who are interested in looking for a step-by-step workflow to, say, touch up digital photos will probably want to look for a different book. This book definately covers some of those techniques, and you’ll know how to do it in the end (plus a lot more), but it’s goal is to cover the entire gamut of Photoshop software features.

The full color book is well organized and easy to follow. I went in order from Chapter 1 through Chapter 12, starting with how to navigate through Photoshop and finishing with how to print your images. At the end of each chapter is a written test to see how much you learned. Also throughout the book are many keyboard shortcuts which really speed things up. In the dozens of hours of exercises and detailed explanations, I found only 2 or 3 typos/errors and these were in the keyboard shortcut commands and I easily figured out the correct ones.

I highly recommend this book for anyone that has taken a quick look at Photoshop and doesn’t know how to start learning it.

Disjointed, confusing, and

I’ve been playing with Photoshop for a couple years now, but not really understanding what I was doing.
The book started out strong, and I even learned a few things about what makes an image work in the first place. I also like how he walks you through everything step by step.
But then it starts to fall apart.
The first place I had issue was with the chapter/section on coloring and painting. The basic exercise was to color a line drawing of a butterfly which is fine.
The problem starts when he wants to make the butterfly more interesting. He has the reader going through all sorts of other steps that make use of very powerful (and often complicated) Photoshop featuers (layers, masks, etc). This does absolutely nothing to enhance the lesson and just made the thing feel tedious. In his defense, the images you load do come reasonably pre-set for all this. But the introduction of a new feature only serves to muddy the waters and delay the reader from getting on with things.

It gets worse when we get to quick masks. At this point, the step by step exercises start to degrade in quality and clarity and take on a random feel to them.
At this point (around half-way through the book), I just got tired of the whole thing.

The fact is that many topics in Photoshop require actual explanations, not simply walk-throughs. While his videos do some of that, the further you get in the book, the less actual information is given.

I am now using the chapter organization to find online tutorials. There’s a number of video tutorials out there that will serve you MUCH better than this text will.

It is possible, I suppose, that in the later chapters, where he introduces some of the more artistic aspects of Photoshop, he gets his act together. But I’m not going to waste my time on that hope.

I seriously suggest making use of the FREE online resources out there and not paying for this book.

1 to 1

A clear and well-presented book. Easy to follow and every step is clearly defined.
I am sure would suit beginners (with some experience) and professionals alike
J.R. UK

Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-On-One by Deke McClelland

I found this book interesting but not of much use for a photographer. His exercises were too unrealistic and delved too much into art rather than photography for me. Where he did use real life work, he offered specific settings without sufficient underlying explanation or information to allow me to generalise them into my work.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 One on One

Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-On-One
by Deke McClelland
Published by O’Reilly
ISBN-13: 978-0596529758
March 1 2008
First let me say I’m not a writer.But Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-On-One by Deke McClelland is the best book I’ve come across. I have of other books that teach you one on one but no other one teach in a simple clear out line. first we read the lesson, then we which the video presentation(10-15 mins.). Then we work through the lesson. The best part of it is you can do the lesson at your own pace(a hour or a day).
Deke has also given you the same art for you to follow along and to see if yours look as good as his.
These is one book that you need for you library.
Its Great

Great

Its a great book. Im taking an online photoshop class but you dont really need to with this book. It can teach you everything you need to know without any outside help. The videos provided with the Disc are great also.

Experienced user

I have been using Photoshop since version 5.0 and have taught classes to small groups for the last 4 years. One-on-One has given me some new insights, especially to the new tools that CS3 has added, but I wonder how effective the book will be to new users. Perhaps I am a bit prejudiced but new students need to go a bit slower and I would say that a slightly different approach would work better. The book would definitely be an excellent reference for classroom lessons however.

Rehash or new

Can anyone tell me is this a rehash of McClelland’s CS2 one-on-one with updates for CS-3 or does it include all new illustrations and excercises?
TIA

Best CS3 book out there!

I have tried many cs3 books to use to get started in the photoshop world. This book is the only one that introduces it and teaches it in a way that is perfect for one who has never used photoshop before. But, it also has great advanced techniques for the virtuosos out their. The vidoes included with the book help out a lot as well.Great Buy.

Extremely helpful book

I have longed for a book, with tutorials, just like this one. It is chock full of information that is organized well and presented in a way that I, a non-expert, can understand. I think that I have never rated a "textbook" this highly and I am not one to lavish praise, but this is a REALLY excellent book

Not the Best Beginner Book but that’s not why I bought it

I bought this book because I liked the focus on special effects for the beginner level. To learn how to fix your photos in Photoshop, get Kelby’s 7-Point System, to learn what you can do once the picture is where you want it, use this book. He teaches some fun effects as well as photo touch ups. Great collection of photos in the book and on the CD. I like the video training. He has a completely different approach than other training books so it is very useful to me when I want something explained a different way to help me learn.

Absolutely The Best Intro to CS3

I’ve used several photo-editors such as Elements, Photo Impact, and the like, and read instructional books on these programs because frankly I was intimidated by the prospects of dealing with a massive photo-editor such as PhotoShop... However, after purchasing this book, I not only learned a wealth of background information on subjects such as histograms, color wheels and the like that other books just glossed over, but I gained a comprehensive ’way’ to process my photos thru Photoshop. His grasp of the subject is incredible, pointing out the original darkroom origins of many of the photoshop functions he addresses. His instruction is not reduced to click this, then that, but moving thru many well-designed lessons that give you the REASONS why you use this function or that one, and WHY it does what does, and why you should make this change or that one based on a base understanding of the RGB origins of your photograph..

The three hours of video are tightly integrated into each lesson, then he walks you thru each of those areas step-by-step in the associated lesson.

Cannot adequately explain how impressed I have been with his attention to detail, how well organized his approach, how comprehensive are his lessons, and the depth of instruction interwoven in so well-conceived a lesson plan. This book simply ’ROCKS’.... But let me point out that of the many books I’ve purchased thru Amazon this is the FIRST book for which I’ve been moved to write such a glowing recommendation.

No book can you teach you everything, but his knowledge of the subject focuses your attention on the areas within Photoshop where most amateur photographers will spend the majority of their post processing time.
Cannot recommend this book too highly. Deke McClelland clearly is an expert in his field.

Pretty dang good

This is perfect for those just starting with CS3. I’ve been using photoshop for a while now and its nice to learn more while refreshing what I have forgotten.

Great Way To Learn PhotoShop

I love this book. Lessons are presented well. Deke is an excellent teacher, and he makes the lessons engaging and fun. Accompanying DVD-Rom with excercise files and introductory videos makes for an excellent approach to learning this sometimes daunting program. Book includes a free trial to the Lynda.com website where you can find a ton of additional video tutorials featuring Deke. I definitely recommend this book to both the Photoshop newbie and experience user.

Great Resource Book!

Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-On-One
by Deke McClelland
Published by O’Reilly
ISBN-13: 978-0596529758
Reviewed by Donna Sellers, member of the Eureka Photoshop Users Group, Nov 17, 2007

Topics covered:
Open and Organize
Highlights, Midtones, and Shadows
Correcting Color Balance
Making Selections
Crop, Straighten, and Size
Paint, Edit and Heal
Creating and Applying Masks
Focus and Filters
Building Layered compositions
Text and Shapes
Styles and Specialty Layers
Printing and Output

I can fully appreciate why this author was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Not only does he know his material backwards and forwards but he has the gift of writing in a way that is easy to understand. He includes many colored images that demonstrate what he is teaching. His book is appropriate for both the beginner and the more advanced user of Photoshop.

I loved how he organized the book, chapters and topics and made it so user friendly. Each chapter number and name is located on the bottom left side of each page and the specific topic is named on the bottom of the right-hand page. At the end of each section he has a review page of what the reader learned in that chapter and a way to test what concepts have been understood.

While I have been using Photoshop for a number of years, I found his review of Photoshop and all the additional improvements added with the latest CS3 version to be exciting and immediately applicable to increasing my work flow.

I found the examples the author provides on the CD, and the way he walks you through each exercise, easy to follow and helpful in translating what he is teaching to the practical level. His Chapter on Correcting Color Balance was my favorite and worth the price of the book. Within this section he gives the reader a great tutorial on using camera raw images, the most effective ways to colorize images, and explores the advantages of High Bit Depths (24 bits). He reviews how powerful and fast the Variations command (under adjustments) can be to correct color casts and shift saturation levels.

I find in my use of Photoshop that I have often used the same approaches over and over again and haven’t always taken the time to discover newer, faster and more effective ways at getting to the results I am seeking. I fully appreciate having a great resource book available to quickly remind me of more effective and/or efficient ways of getting the results I want.

Generally a satisfactory introduction to Photoshop

*Overview*

I had zero experience with Photoshop when I opened this book. However, I had used restricted aspects of PaintShop Pro, so some of the concepts were no doubt a bit easier for me. In general, though, I approached this text as a total beginner.

Calling this a book is a misnomer. It is an integrated teaching system, including images stored on your computer, settings loaded and saved into Photoshop, and videos. In the Preface, you set up and learn how to use the non-book elements. Especially critical are the included image files; the lessons require that you be able to open the included images into Photoshop. If you skip or skim the Preface, "you’ll be sorrr-ry..."

The teaching is linear. You can’t skip around, and in fact (if you are a newbie) you can’t skip a sentence or even a word without risking total disorientation.

After the Preface/setup phase, there are 12 chapters called "lessons", although they would more accurately be termed chapters or sections, as there are a number of discrete (and sometimes only tenuously connected) lessons in each one.

*Summary Rating*

I rate the book 4 stars, "very good", as an introductory text. I feel quite satisfied to have used it as my introduction to Photoshop and it was worth the price I paid for it and the time I invested in it. I have completed the entire book (although I just skimmed the last chapter, on printing, because I don’t currently need to print graphics to paper).

I hope you’ll keep the four-star rating in mind when reading the criticisms, so that you can put them into an overall context.

*Approach*

Deke (Deke McClelland, the author) is very personal in tone. The lessons begin by loading one or more images (copied from the DVD). Deke then leads you through a series of steps to accomplish a result, such as a) selecting part of one image and moving it into another, then cleaning up the composite to make it look more realistic, or b) creating adjustment layers or layer masks to change the appearance.

This basic approach takes up about 80% of the book. There are a considerable number of sidebars or bordered paragraphs to explain tangential points, some of them comprising several distinct pages.

There are also an abundance of illustrations of both the image you are manipulating, and the Photoshop controls you are supposed to be using, to make sure you are up to speed at any given point. If the book errs, it is on the side of too many rather than too few illustrations, probably a good thing for beginners. Photoshop is huge and complex, and on the rare occasions when you get disoriented, you can just go back a few paragraphs, study the text and illustrations, and get back on track.

The 12 chapters at least touch on all the basic concepts and actions in Photoshop. In all, it gives you a good springboard for advanced learning.

*Criticisms*

1. My biggest gripe about the book is that it too often leads you through the steps too fast, learning "how" to accomplish a very specific task without a sufficient explanation of "why". For example, one of the blend modes you are supposed to use repeatedly is "Multiply". Information about how Multiply works and what it accomplishes are scattered rather randomly among the instances when it is used. The book would benefit from a single explanation of how it works, with perhaps a simple example and a comparison to the closely-related "Darken" mode.

Similarly, the various sections where masks are made (which are mostly quite good) would benefit from a page of introductory "why", rather than scattered bits and pieces of information. I spent at least five minutes wondering "why in the h____ is the thumbnail for this vector mask gray".

2. At the worst, I was unable to accomplish a couple of lessons. There are one or two lessons that are just not very good, especially "Using the Vanishing Point Filter". Following the steps does not get you to the result. I really would have just thrown up my hands in despair, except that there is an excellent sidebar -- really a separate lesson -- called "Enhanced vanishing Point 2.0".

A related, less serious criticism, is that often the lessons bite off too much in one segment.

3. The O’Reilly website has an "errata" section that is completely empty. There is no forum that I have found. In short, support for users of the book is severely deficient. There aren’t a lot of errata that I found, compared to some other programming books I have read, but there are some.

4. A lot of space is wasted by fully repeating utterly simple procedures. How to rename a layer is fully explained a dozen times, and the difference between Mac and MS keyboard commands (such as Ctrl for MS versus the cloverleaf key on a Mac) is repeated, in full, at least a hundred times. Other basic procedures that are much more likely to cause confusion are sometimes not explained or repeated adequately, especially the baffling world of dragging, clicking, and double clicking with various ctrl/alt/shift combinations.

5. The tests are good, but often involve concepts too difficult to extract by normal straight-through study: e.g. terms mentioned once in a sidebar or comprehensive definitions never really fleshed out in the text.

*Plusses*
Besides the basic four-star rating, there are some extras. You get a free 7-day promo trial to Deke’s video course site. And the book is full of his delightful grade-school-wacky humor.

I did not find the videos included on the DVD to be particularly helpful, although they were interesting enough. They just don’t actually teach you anything.

*Summary*

I have to say, the sheer amount of work that went into this book is mind-boggling. Writing a comprehensive introduction to Photoshop is unbelievably difficult. I think it’s a good job overall; I’m glad I bought it and followed it from first page to last; and I would recommend the book to a beginner with decent underlying computer skills.

Perfect Choice...

Over the last few weeks I have been watching photoshop training videos available from lynda.com. Out of all the trainers, one stood out among the rest...Deke McClelland. So as I was searching for a good instructional manual, this book seemed like the perfect choice and indeed it was.

Deke does a terrific job of taking you through such an exhaustive program. The layout of the book is clear and concise. Like every good teacher should, he tells you the goals at the beginning of each lesson, then he explains how to accomplish them.

I highly recommend this book!!

Good but a bit much at times

I am a Photoshop newbee. I had gone through another book while waiting on this one. The book is great for new users with in depth explinations of almost every step used. At times there was little to much of Deke’s personal comments which I felt was a waste of my time. I did not find the videos on the DVD all that helpful. All in all it was highly educational for me and increased my learning exponentially. I would give it 5 stars but the other book i got from Amazon, Dynamic Learning Photoshop was much more to the point.