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Master the fundamentals of Photoshop CS4 and then some with One-on-One, Deke McClelland's unique and effective learning system. Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One includes step-by-step tutorials, more than five hours of DVD-video demonstrations, and hands-on projects to help you improve your knowledge and hone your skills. Once you read about a particular technique, you can see how it's done first-hand in the video. The combination is uniquely effective. Whether you're new to Photoshop or a creative professional interested in the groundbreaking features of CS4, Deke's conversational style and carefully structured lessons guide you easily through the program's fundamental and advanced concepts and techniques. More than 850 full-color photos, diagrams, and screen shots illustrate every key step. With this book, you will:

• Learn at your own speed with 12 self-paced tutorials

• Master Photoshop's workflow and file handling features

• Try out techniques and best practices with engaging real-world projects

• Discover how Bridge and Camera Raw can help you optimize digital photos

• Create beautiful multilayered documents, including posters and flyers

• Test your knowledge with multiple-choice quizzes in each chapter

And more. Written and produced by a Photoshop expert with well over 20 years of experience, Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One simulates a classroom environment that provides one-on-one attention as you proceed from lesson to lesson. You'll learn to use Photoshop faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible.

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 26 Ratings

Warning if you're conversative or giving to a teen - 2009-07-11
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Nothing prepared me to find nude women in the book or on the video. They may be bent over or in a blowing towel, but all the same, this is a computer book. A wise author would not risk offending viewers without warning.

If you're buying this for a teen or if you're conservative, you can find a non-offensive book, I'm sure. I'm just hoping I can return it since I opened the video before discovering the pictures.

A good resource - 2009-10-09
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I am a "newby" to Photoshop so having any type of material I can understand is a blessing. This resource has walked me through step by step to produce some amazing results. I think it could work for you also.

Photoshop CS4 One-on-One - 2009-08-11
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Typical of Deke McClelland, the video is thorough and understandable. The book text takes understanding to the next level with the exercises using the included files. Highly recommended. Excellent coverage of the features of CS4.

Excellent addition to a PSCS4 library - 2009-06-15
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In typical DekeMcClelland style, the step-by-step descriptions are detailed, understandable, and precise. This is not your typical Photoshop manual: it really reads like a well thought-out tutorial on how to use Photoshop CS4 capabilities in the context of a logical image correcting workflow. The prose is almost conversational, as though the reader was sitting in a workshop and the book was doing the talking. I think the procedures described and their order (Deke's prescribed PSCS4 workflow) is excellent.

The book comes with an excellent disc containing several hours of video tutorials from Lydia.com. These are very well done and complement the book beautifully. These are real, detailed tutorials and not snippets: you'll learn from them. Between the tutorials and the lessons in the book, I really felt like I'd gotten a "one-on-one" course in Photoshop, and my ability to edit photos was definitely improved. The discussions on masks and the uses of layers were terrific.

One-on-One is more of a series of detailed lessons than a reference book. I appreciated the clear descriptions of how tools worked and why the author chose particular sequences and ways of doing things. A small nit: while all tools and capabilities seem to be represented in the index, some corresponding techniques are not. For example, "free transform" is there, but "transform" is not.

I found many of the "Sidebar" comments--which are often 1-2 pages long--distracting. The problem isn't the content, which is invariably very useful: the problem is where the sidebars fall. Too often a sidebar will be placed between two pages of a detailed procedure or other discussion. I found this placement distracting. At other times, sidebars are politely placed between logical discussions and their pages referenced in the text. After encountering a number of distractingly placed sidebars, I found myself wishing that they'd been appended to the chapters and referenced appropriately.

As a long-time, "somewhere between beginner and intermediate" Photoshop user, I'd readily recommend this book to people new to image editing and to new PSCS4 users, even if you've used earlier versions of Photoshop. The book is written with a friendly, informative, and accessible style and the content should appeal to many beginning and intermediate Photoshop users.

Excellent value - 2009-06-04
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First of all, I'm no expert at CS4, but I am far from being a novice when it comes to image editing. I did the first two chapters of this book and decided not to wait to purchase the second volume: Photoshop CS4 Channels & Masks One-on-One. The book, the accompanying DVD and the organization of the lessons, exercises and projects make these books an excellent value for learning CS4. Who better to learn from than someone who makes a good living doing what he loves to do?

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