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Title: Just what you wanted to know
Review: Gertler's book takes you into what to do to get professional results using this feature-heavy software. Unlike tutorials found on the web and Jasc's own "Getting Started Guide," the book can be read away from your computer, allowing you to absorb principles that will make you a more savvy user. The reader comes away with a much better understanding than with approaches that just tell you to enter values like 70 for density, 10 for blur, 30 percent opacity. There are some annoying errors that an editor should have caught: misuse of "whom," confusion between "affect" and "effect," and mistakenly calling a bighorn sheep a mountain goat, but the author is right on with all the important stuff.
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