Title: Not For Beginners; Black&White, Crowded Format a Problem Too
Product review: So far this is the Photoshop book I'd tell you to buy last after my buying 5 different ones. It is the one in use in my college level course and I think they should use just about anything else. Its biggest problem is that it is just too complicated for a beginner to use. It throws an enormous amount of material before you.(That is the effect it has upon you as a student--data being dumped on you en masse) Hours later into reading it, you are no better off than when you started. It is also in black and white and every single page is jam packed with material. This off-putting visual style/format is no aid to learning either. Now that I'm steadily improving in Photoshop, I hope I am able to occasionally open this book and learn something I haven't gleaned elsewhere so as to get my [money] out of it. I have yet to be able to do this though. I can't really recommend buying this book and I think colleges should stop requiring it as the text.
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