[.ca] Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 7 in 24 Hours (ISBN 0672323885)

John Nemerovski MyMac.com Book Review:
Book Bytes is a fan of the 24-lesson approach used in Sams Publishing's well-tested series of tutorial books. Photoshop is so vast and complex that breaking down its introductory features into small component exercises is a perfect solution for newcomers. Many worthwhile aspects in this book: * each of the 24 assignments is complete within itself, and comes in handy sooner or later during future (or sometimes previous) chapters * all screen shots are taken from OS X's version of Photoshop 7 * a special URL can be reached via the Sams main web site, containing every image used in the text, downloaded either one unit at a time or all together as a 13MB file * Carla Rose's conversational writing style is friendly and inviting, with occasional humor, taking the edge away from PhotoShop's tendency to intimidate inexperienced users * individual lessons and tutorials are concise, and numbered sequentially for easy following along Any complaints? Yes, one: the color photo insert is bright and bold, but the many helpful grayscale images are feeble in comparison; higher grade inking would help. Each of the 24 "hours" in Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop in 24 Hours ends with a useful Q & A, plus a quiz (with answers) and some exercises targeted to the material in the unit. Readers who make the effort to study and work through each chapter will be intermediate Photoshoppers before long. Subject topics begin with the absolute basics and finish with substantial techniques presented. This book is easy to understand, friends, and well worth a rating of MacMice Rating: 4 out of 5 for people new to Photoshop. WOULD I BUY IT? Definitely. WOULD I USE IT IF IT WERE THE ONLY PHOTOSHOP BOOK AVAILABLE? Yes, indeed. DO I RECOMMEND IT? Without any hesitation

good for beginners:
This book, like many of the SAMS 24 hour series, is a good and fast introduction to the program. If you don't have the time to wade through a thousand page tome on Photoshop this book will quickly get you up and running. My only complaint is: the download for the images used in the book only contains one picture per chapter. Not every illustration as mentioned earlier.

disappointed wasted money:
ok..dis book is juss way too confusing... oof..aldoh i read da whole book..i got nothin out of it... b/c we already kno how to do those basic shizz...fliters etc...but this boook spends way too much explainin about pointless crap....which makes it boring plus complicatin.... i was hopin to learn photoshop 7 tricks...but yea...this book is stoopid...dont get it...

agreed, too much left out or just glossed over:
Steps omitted, no visuals for icons and also mentioning a feature and then saying nothing else about it. I don't care what the "so called expert" had to say, the book is bad. Try another one.

Mistake ...:
... even after reading the above reviews I decided to give this book a shot. Bad idea. There are a few typos in the book that are annoying, but not really enough to lead you completely astray. Unfortunately that is about as good as the book gets. There is a complete lack of really good visual aids, diagrams, pics, and step by step "how-to's". Carla Rose also will use terminology that isn't explained until later on, making things more confusing. Additionally all the screen shots are in Mac, not Windows, which may or may not effect the examples. This book is not for the beginner. I would look else where.