Photoshop Tutors

4 Responses to “Adobe Photoshop CS4 Revealed, Softcover”

1. J. Griffin
   October 20th, 2009 at 1:07 pm

   I had to get this book for a class I was taking and I tried sooo hard to follow the directions, but I just couldn’t understand it! I don’t know if this book is for a beginner b/c I had no idea how to use PS CS4. However, that is why I took the class to get familiar with the program, but I could not figure out how to use it with this AWFUL book!! Needless to say, I ended up dropping out of that class.
   Rating: 1 / 5

2. J. Ferro
   October 20th, 2009 at 3:00 pm

   I found this book very difficult to follow. The explanations of various functions were often totally confusing. For example, there would be a small picture of entire photoshop layout with small arrows pointing to various tools and such. One picture would illustrate more than a dozen tools or functions. There was no “walk through” of tools either. You had to figure it out on your own which I thought to be silly since the title uses the word “Revealed”. Also, the book is geared for windows users NOT mac users. There are so many books out there that explain photoshop that I think it’s worth it to look for another like the “Classroom in a book” series for example.
   Rating: 1 / 5

3. K. M. McMonigle
   October 20th, 2009 at 5:05 pm

   This book provides lots of examples to clarify points and plenty of practice to make sure you understand the tools. For a “newbie” to PhotoShop, I highly recommend it.
   Rating: 5 / 5

4. Luis E. Valencia
   October 20th, 2009 at 6:09 pm

   As a Mac user very familiar and comfortable with Aperture 2, I decided to try Photoshop CS4 to go the next level of editing and document creation. Twice I walked away from Photoshop finding it unintuitive, confusing, and complicated. But since I had paid so much for the software, I decided to try once again. This time I bought a couple of CS4 How To books thinking that I would be able to learn the program. I tried several books and none had the approach to teaching that would help me learn step by step. Most books I looked at were geared to showing how you can do great things with Photoshop, and how creative one could be. However, they skipped the basics and assumed that you already knew photoshop. Or if they tried to teach basics, their approach was superficial or disjointed. I almost walked away from Photoshop for the last time until I found Adobe Photoshop CS4 Revealed. At first I balked at the price which I thought was outrageous for a paperback. But having paid for the software, I said “what the heck”. It turned out to be a very smart decision. The book approaches Photoshop CS4 very methodically and logically. Explains things in detail with great illustrations and in the first few lessons assumes that you have never used Photoshop and gives you the foundation to move on to the creative and advanced features of Photoshop. So, if you are a beginner in Photoshop who understands all that the program can do and want to learn the fundamentals and then move on to the advanced and unique features, then you won’t be sorry that you bought this book.
   Rating: 5 / 5