Review: Photoshop 7: Complete Course
by Peter Spain
I've only ever been a basic photo retoucher using Photoshop. Until now, I never had a clue about the power of this program. That's all changing now.
I have purchased a book from Amazon called
"Photoshop 7: Complete Course", by Jan Kabili, ISBN: 0-7645-3684-2 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764536842/qid=1062805844/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-9150576-0059313?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
This is a most excellent book. It's organised as a series of linked tutorials with which you build a very complex project and thereby get to use just about every main element of Photoshop. There are beautiful colour diagrams on every page illustrating the moves described in the adjacent text and there's 541 megs of tutorial files. There's a trial copy of PS7 on a second CD.
The book is designed for use by both Mac and Windows users of Photoshop. The diagrams all are in MacOS X's Aqua interface but are easily understood by users of Windows 9.x, XP, &c. Mac key combinations are given first, followed by the Windows keys in brackets.
Photoshop novices can start with this and not feel it's too advanced for them, yet later on in the lessons, some very advanced concepts are tackled.
This book gives one extraordinary confidence to take on Photoshop and to access its power. This is a course that I'm loath to take a break from, but of course you've got to eat and we all know what happens if you don't eat.
Crikey, Photoshop is one complex bit of kit and I'm thrilled by it, as I am with this book.
I commend Photoshop 7: Complete Course to you.
