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Photoshop for Right-Brainers: The Art of Photo Manipulation, 2nd Edition
by Al Ward
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Sybex (2005-12-12)
ISBN: 0782144306
EAN: 9780782144307
Dewey Decimal #: 006.686
Paperback: 352 pages
Edition: 2
SKU: 111408000197
Condition: New
Comments: 0782144306 New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Are you an artist or photographer who views Photoshop as a tool for creative expression rather than a piece of software? Then you'll embrace Photoshop master Al Ward's original approach to the art of photo manipulation. Photoshop for Right-Brainers 2nd Edition is an update to Al Ward's unique guide, with new projects, new images, and a new lower price. It goes beyond cookie-cutter techniques and teaches you how to harness Photoshop's powerful features to make your own original work. The CD contains 400-plus Photoshop Actions, a value-add that helps you cut tedious tasks out of your workflow, freeing up time for more right-brain work.
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Customer Reviews
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Disappointing
Rating  (2)
Date: 2008-05-25
After all the rave reviews, I picked this up. It was very disappointing.
The good: Clear step by step instructions, well printed and illustrated. Covers some tools that aren't covered often: blending modes, the blend-if option, and displacement maps.
The bad: A bare handful of conceptual techniques are covered, and they're repeated throughout the book. Blending modes, blend if, and displacement maps are great tools, but they're used in the same way in the majority of the examples, giving the same kind of result. Without that repetition, the book would have been less than a third the size, and no loss of training would result.
His coverage of Apply Image didn't show anything that can't be done less destructively by using layers. (Apply Image can do a lot more, but that was never discussed.)
Some of his techniques were more convoluted than needed, and some used methods which cost time and resources unnecessarily.
Worst of all, from my perspective, all but one of his examples (bricks with text/bricks with stripes) looked faked. That didn't give me much confidence in the technique.
Overall: The author covers some tools and techniques not frequently discussed. If you're trying to create art that doesn't need to look realistic, this may be an acceptable option, but I'd look at other books before buying this one.
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Beware, the CD in my book held a trojan!
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-01-28
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I like this book (a brand-new copy bought through Amazon) a lot for the reasons others have said, and for the obvious need it fills.
But when I tried to open the CD, my antivirus software found "trojan SHeur.AEPL!!!" Good grief.
I wrote Sybex (the publisher) customer support and they did respond within 24 hours, saying: "Discussion Thread
Response (Mark C.) 01/28/2008 10:13 AM
"Hi, and thanks for writing.
The files on the disc are not usable.
"We are sorry for the inconvenience. The files that were missing are provided in the attachment." (There was no attachment.)
This is unprecedented in my experience. But be warned, fellow customers, the CD in your book may hold malicious code. Apparently Sybex will send you the missing content, but that has not reached me yet.
Joe Cantrell
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Right Brainers
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-06-26
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
For all those who would like to get to grips with the nitty gritty bits of Adobe Photoshop this book has it all.Mr Al Ward has long been associated with the Adobe people and his methods of teaching others in this book is brilliant.
You Have all the tools and advice on how to use them illustrated, plus you have the oppportunity to use your own pictures and adapt them to create the illustration shown. This then makes the finished article more personal as you have used your own work and not that given to you.
Highly recomended
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This is a reWARD
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-03-08
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Its always difficult to buy a book that gave you where you looking for, but this is for me one of the best books for photoshop addicts.
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Fun
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-11-15
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Good book. I borrowed it from the library then decided to buy it. Worthwhile tutorials to learn very cool stuff. I would recommend for beginner - intermediate.
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