Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2017 release)

I found it demoralizing that every lesson in this books starts with the words, "This lesson will take about an hour to complete." Have they ever tested this claim on real people? For example, in one single lesson -- I'm looking at Chapter 5 -- you will learn: (1.) how to retouch peoples' faces, make their eyes look bigger, turn a frown into a smile, banish red-eye, and adjust other facial features, (2.) how to create bokeh or the appearance of motion in a photo by fine-tuning the various types of "blur" available in the filters menu, (3.) how to stitch together multiple photos to create a panorama, and then fill in the blank spaces with "content-aware" imagery generated by Photoshop, (4.) how to crop and straighten images, and again, fill in the blank areas with context-sensitive content, (5.) how to correct distortion caused by short-angle lenses and fix other lens-related issues, (6.) how to take two photos with different depths of field, then line them up and merge them into one photo so that everything is in focus from back to front, (7.) how to turn a small group of ducks into a flock of ducks, or a few flowers into a field of flowers, by learning to "seamlessly" move, copy, rotate, and resize individual parts of a photo, (8.) how to combine a photo of a train taken at one angle with a photo of a bridge taken at another angle, and use the perspective tools to make it look like the train is actually coming right over the bridge at you... It's all great stuff, and 100% worth your while to learn, but name one person on this earth who could learn all that in an hour, including completing all the steps with the lesson files. The Adobe Classroom books are expensive, but not compared to the cost of a CC subscription that you don't use. If you are the kind of person who can sit down and plow through a book from beginning to end, there is nothing better. Except for the unrealistic time estimates, the books were obviously written by people with real experience in pedagogy, with one lesson building on the next, no missing steps, and lots of little forays into advanced topics so you know what you might want to explore further. DON'T buy this book if you aren't going to download the lesson files and do the lessons, because the book is about those files and those lessons. Believe me, reading about how to use vector-drawing tools to trace a photo and create a reusable logo from it is very different from actually creating the paths, subtracting one path from another, converting the paths into shapes, turning shapes into assets, saving color schemes along with your assets, and all the rest. Not for the faint of heart. Good luck.

Can't go wrong here for a beginner who is getting their feet wet on Photoshop. Sure, considering we live in the digital internet age it was hard at times to concentrate doing lessons in a book, but they do have good source files for you to work on so you can drill the program into your head. A tip I would give is to also complement your reading and lessons with some youtube videos for the type of exercise you are doing in the book. This will make your progress much faster.

If any of you have tried to self learn Photoshop, good luck. I attended a class and was treated like moron. My way of learning a product is usually a hacker's approach. I try this button and that button. I try every option and then see the work a rounds but that does not work with Photoshop. Then I bought this book and it was create. You can go to any lesson as you need to. It is simple well written and easy to learn. I threw away the other book I bought. I bought because it was like the class I took it first wanted to explain what a pixel was. PLEASE!!!

Well written, good examples, and logical, easy to follow lessons help the reader to learn to use the software. I also find myself going back and looking at specific examples when I am faced with a challenge. I very much enjoy this series of books!

Nice way to get your students going in Photoshop. Comes with all of your lesson files to set up in student drives. I think the Illustrator CC book is written way more confusing than this book. I wish the same author was used for both.

Very helpful and goes step by step with pictures of how the photoshop screen should look like. Which is helpful if you learn by having someone kind of tell you how it should be done!

This book is perfect! It is educational and easy to follow! I am a teacher and have multiple degrees. I am able to learn from this book with ease!

This is reasonably good book. I purchased it for a class I took. It introduces you to many photoshop concepts. My only complaint is that everything is written in a step by step way, and it doesn’t challenge the learner to think for themselves for solve any problems. As a result, the concepts don’t really sink in. Also, I am more of a visual learner, so watching YouTube or Lynda.com videos is much more helpful for me than ready a book.

I have been shying away from learning Photoshop. I work abroad in places with poor/non existent internet and wanted a book to work from as opposed to online learning. This book also comes with downloadable content that allows you to learn practically rather than just passive reading. I am half way through the book and am really happy with the layout/methodolgy of the content and have found it to be very good at getting to grips with Photoshop. I find it a good balance between not being overly simple nor overly hard or condenscending.

You just need some basic knowledge about using a computer. This book explains steps for both Mac and Windows. The book is so interesting that I finished half of the chapters on the first day itself. You can buy this with your eyes closed if you want to learn Photoshop. Do not go for Photoshop CC Bible as the pages are Black and White and of very bad quality. I have attached pics of one of the beginning projects.

Compré el producto siendo nuevo, pero me ha llegado maltratado como si fuera de segunda mano o mal cuidado

Questo manuale ufficiale di photoshop ti permette di imparare: Le aree di lavoro Le correzioni base di photoshop Lavorare con le selezioni Le basi del Layer Modifiche veloci Maschere e canali Design tipografico Tecniche disegno vettori Composizione avanzata Dipingere con i pennelli Editing video Lavoro con camera RAW Preparazione file per il web Produzione e stampa colori Stampa file 3D PRO: -Manuale ufficiale di Adobe -Scritto da persone qualificate dalla azienda -Dopo aver registrato il manuale sul sito avrete accesso anche alla versione web edition del manuale completa di video tutorial, passo dopo passo che vi spiega in modo intuitivo come svolgere L esercizio. Contro: -Prezzo alto -Lingua inglese Se posso essere stato utile, date un voto positivo :-)

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