Teach Yourself Photoshop

By David Lockett and Christopher Lumgair

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844230626
• ISBN13: 9780844230627
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Teach Yourself
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Best investment I ever made!

I had always wanted to learn design but had no time or money to invest in classes etc. All I had was an iMac and "Teach yourself Quark Express". Although some reviews don't praise this book, I found it to be informative enough to learn my way around the Quark interface and start designing pages. Because large manuals overwhelmed me- not to mention my optimism about breaking into design was not that high, I settled for this cheap little book. Well I'm happy to say that within about six weeks I landed my first design job in NYC and have since mastered Quark and became very skilled in Photoshop and Illustrator. Just six months after reading this book I became a very experienced and employable designer. I have taken many courses in design since then-but my gratitude goes to the author because I never would have done it without this book. This is the only Quark book I've ever owned and believe me, anything a certified Quark instructor has ever showed me I had already learned in this book.

Another great buy! (see my review on "Teach Yourself Quark")

Again, hats off to Christopher Lumgair! Another great book for one who is looking to break into design. I got my start in design with "Teach Yourself QuarkXPress", but actually I use this book more. It's great for those needing to learn how to scan line art and contones quickly and a good all around reference. Yes, there are better Photoshop books-but this little guy has more bang for the buck!

A rare bargain in computer books

I use Photoshop LE for web pages and photo touchup, and having gotten the program as a freebie with another Adobe package, I'm somewhat allergic to paying ( ) for the typical photoshop manual. Enter Teach Yourself books. This British publisher has been around as long as I can remember, producing simple and useful manuals for, it sometimes seems, every possible human endevor, and now they're doing excelent comuter books. This slim volume may not be as exhaustive a reference as some of the 500 page tomes out there, but it's complete, it answered all my questions, and at under ( ) it's a steal