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Title: Simply awful
Review: This book was simply awful. While I am very computer literate, I was completely new to photoshop 7 (and to photo-type software in general). This book decided to start by throwing me into the deep end of the pool and hoping that I could swim. I couldn't.Not only were the explanations completely unclear, they make you do exercises without telling you why your're doing them; you can't learn when to take a specific series of actions if you don't understand when/why they would be appropriate.Finally, the index was completely useless, at least to a beginner (perhaps if I had used prior versions it would have been more useful).Overall, I found this book to be completely worthless. It's been sitting on my shelf gathering dust since about a week after I bought it (which was how long I tried to muddle my way through it). There MUST be better books on the subject out there. Try one. Any of them!
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