Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop's Most Powerful Feature by Matt Kloskowski Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop's Most Powerful Feature
Book Review: Layers: Powerful but accessible.
Summary: 5 Stars
Matt Kloskowski's new book is the most useful Photoshop guide I have ever used. Althought I am a relative newcomer to Ps CS3 I can follow and benefit from every chapter and lesson. I took advantage of Matt's offer to share almost 30 MB of the photos used as examples. This means I can repeat each tutorial until I have mastered the technique and, maybe, mixed and matched up the photos to develop a new slant. I enjoyed, for example, using the photo of a male model holding a pistol to create a new image -- a poster warning against holding a pistol with your finger on the trigger. Herein lies the rub: I can use this masterpiece only to guide myself -- the copyright would prevent resale to the multitudes.Book Review: Great useful information - Newbie beware though and...
Summary: 4 Stars
First off, this book is amazing and easy to read/work through. It is easily, the best Photoshop book that I have ever read (better than Scott Kelby's tips for digital photographers and better than Camera RAW) I had a new understanding of the power of Photoshop and how to edit my images by the end of chapter 3 that I never new possible! It's like magic the things you can adjust.
Secondly, you really need a basic understanding of photoshop. Like what all the tools do, how to change brushes, opacity, etc. Also, you need to understand what curves, channels, hue, etc. do too.
My only minor quibble / gripe is that this book should have come with a CD of sample images. You need to go to his website and download the examples. For 20+ dollars, that's just lame. Matt, charge an extra $.25 and give us all a CD.
Other than that, absolutely amazing!
Book Review: Great tips, good podcast companion
Summary: 5 Stars
The first three chapters can be skipped if you are an experienced PhotoShop user - really basic stuff. After that, there are some great hints, tips, and techniques. Great companion to his PodCast series.Book Review: Layers
Summary: 5 Stars
I debated buying this book as I have worked with Photoshop for several years and thought I had a pretty good grasp of the layers idea. I decided to get it anyway and found so many tips and shortcuts that I hadn't been aware of, that I was glad I had made the choice to purchase it. Matt teaches in an informal and easy manner which makes it easy to learn and understand what he is doing in each step.Having the downloaded images that he used to work with made it simple to follow his instructions.Book Review: Matt Kloskowski knows Photoshop!
Summary: 4 Stars
Matt Kloskowski is one of my favorite presenters at Photoshop World and I assumed this book would be a great way to learn the features of Layers and Matt delivers.
Over the past two years I've attended Photoshop World and always enjoyed Matt's classes. The Complete Guide to Photoshop Most Power Features Layers is a great way to understand the power and features of Layers, and the format is similar to Matt's presentations that are standing room only at Photoshop World classes.
I started reading and following Matt's lessons in the morning and didn't stop until the last chapter in the afternoon. Matt's relaxed and simple way of teaching Photoshop comes through in every chapter. All of the sample images are included on a CD with the book which helps you follow along with every step.
Some of the files on the CD have different file names than listed in the book, that's the only reason why this didn't get 5 stars.