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Title: 50 Fast and Bad Techniques
Review: This book doesn't give much explanations and for a reason: it looks like the author is not profficient in what he tries to teach. Some of his advices are dead wrong, for example converting color to b&w: his method gives far inferior results to proper techniques (there are more than one). The method he suggests is definitely the fastest - probably for this very reason almost every book or Web Tutorial (there are dozens of them) will tell you why you should avoid this method. I returned the book and won't recomend it to anyone, beginner or intermidiate. Check other books, like Scott Kelby's "Photoshop 6 Photo-Retouching Secrets" or Martin Evening's "Adobe Photoshop 6.0 for Photographers" (this one is for more advanced readers) and see for yourself.
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