Advanced Photoshop CS3 Trickery & FX is a completely updated edition of this specialized book for Photoshop users wishing to go beyond the basics. It takes digital artists to the next level of creativity by teaching them how to blend their artistic talent seamlessly with the powerful tools of Photoshop CS3. The book is packed with full color photos showing before-and-after touch-up examples and demos of the amazing new features of Photoshop CS3. Using a mixture of fun and practical projects, you will learn how to transform ordinary photos into incredible special effects and digital creations. This edition also includes more real-world projects to illustrate practical uses of Photoshop's tools. The book assumes a fundamental level of skill with Photoshop and builds upon those skills by helping you learn how and why Photoshop does what it does. Throughout the book, you will learn to work with the tools that come with Photoshop, but aren't used on a regular basis, and are therefore not covered in depth in general purpose Photoshop books. Armed with this knowledge, you can to take on new challenges and work though the practical, fun tutorials throughout this book. All of the core tools of Photoshop CS3 used for effects are put to use in hands-on projects as you learn new techniques for creating realistic and fantasy effects!

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Buyer Beware! - 2007-12-11
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If you own Advanced Photoshop CS2 Trickery & FX, please think twice before you purchase this volume. While some of the page numbers have changed, the content has not. The book does contain outstanding images that will definitely spark your creativity, but you have seen it all before in the previous edition. Stephen Burns IS an amazing artist, but he has followed Caplin's lead (How to Cheat in Photoshop) and decided to add very few new concepts/ideas.

Needs Thorough Updating - 2008-06-14
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While the information around the techniques in this book is great, it seems like it wasn't edited very well. Some of the instructions for things like tool commands in the book do not match the Photoshop CS3 tool commands. For example, in one part it says press "P" to bring up the paintbrush, but in CS3 "P" brings up the pentool. It might be a small deal to locate the paintbrush, but these sorts of things cause you to not maintain concentration on the techniques used in the book, and as a result you spend time focusing on the differences between CS2 and CS3, which is not supposed to be the purpose for this book.

I'd give this five stars if it had been properly edited, but because of the issues involved, I'll give it 3 stars.

USER FRIENDLY!!!!! - 2007-09-28
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I WAS VERY HAPPY WITH MY PURCHASE, IT TOOK ME QUITE AWHILE TO GO THRU THE BOOK, BUT I FELT LIKE I GOT WHAT I PAID FOR!! THANK YOU- LINDA BEVERLY

There are better books out there. - 2008-06-02
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I needed this book for school and it is one of the worst Photoshop books I've read. The tutorials are either out of date (for CS3) or are missing information. When doing the book assignments I had to search online in order to figure out what they are talking about, and I am pretty good with Photoshop. I gave it 3 because I think as long as you are familiar with Photoshop you could work around the glitches in the book.

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