This Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to create great-looking images with Photoshop. Best-selling authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas take readers step by step through all of today's Photoshop essentials: from importing digital photos through basic color manipulation and image correction to painting, masking, using filters, and more. Hot topics like working with Camera Raw, using the improved Photomerge command (that aligns and blends layers automatically) to stitch together images, making selections using the new Quick Selection tool and Refine Edge feature, and Smart Filters are all covered.

Both beginning users, who want a thorough introduction to the topic, and more advanced users, who are looking for a handy reference, will find what they need here. In this edition, using a fresh new design and now illustrated in full color, the authors have streamlined the text by focusing on the most efficient means of accomplishing a task, rather than explaining all possible methods. By the end of the book, users will have a solid foundation for working in Photoshop CS3. Additional intermediate topics can be found in the author's follow-on book: Photoshop CS3: Visual QuickPro Guide.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 17 Ratings

Big Disappointment From Earlier Photoshop Books in this Series - 2009-01-22
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I teach Photoshop at my University and have been using Photoshop since Photoshop 3. The Photoshop Quickstart series has been excellent until the CS3 book. I required the earlier books in my digital design courses. The size of the CS3 book has decreased from the CS2 book from 600 pages to 400 pages. Much of the content of the earlier books have been omitted. For example there's no mention of using paths to make a selection! From what was once one of the most comprehensive books of Photoshop knowledge has turned into a book that is superficial in content and only useful to the novice with no Photoshop experience. What a disappointment!. Definitely not comprehensive enough for a college digital design course. What happened? I forgot to mention you now get color pages.

Good book for beginning - 2009-09-29
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Instructor changed books but plan on referring to this one when I run into any problems.

Photoshop CS3 Book - 2009-08-04
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Anyone who has even opened the Photoshop program understands why a guide book is alomst necessary. The depths of what this program can do would likely go unseen by anyone who has not had some form of formal training or instruction. This book helps those new to Photoshop or those looking to do more with their digital photos understand what this program is capable of. A great book for anyone who wants to do some really cool or technical things with their photos.

poor customer service - 2009-06-24
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Seller will not take the book back. The class that I registered for was written as CS3, but the prof. is teaching CS4. Seller was not willing to exchange or take the book back.

Disappointing - 2009-06-09
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We used this book as an accompanying text in a class on Photoshop CS3. The instructions are not very clear but I was even more disappointed in the downloads that are provided to accompany the book. This is the first time I have seen a book on graphics provide images that have a large copyright stamp across them for practice files. Either give the rights to use them or don't. They make it seem that students "stole" the files from a website. The copyright stamp makes it difficult to recreate the examples in the book since you have to work around it. I would not recommend this as a classroom aid.

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