Contents:
A Rough Guide to Clever Algorithms. Illustrator CS4 For Dummies. Flip Video For Dummies. Photoshop CS3 for Windows and Macintosh. The Non-Designer's Illustrator Book. Raspberry Pi Supercomputing and Scientific Programming. Digital and Discrete Geometry. Next Generation Computer Animation Techniques. Photoshop for Lightroom Users. The Digital Photography Book. The Digital Photography Book, Part 2.
The Digital Photography Book, Part 4. The Digital Photography Book, Part 5. Photoshop 6 Down and Dirty Tricks. The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers.
Photoshop 6 Photo-Retouching Secrets. Photoshop 7 Down and Dirty Tricks. Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 Collection. The Lightroom Mobile Book. How to write a great review. The review must be at least 50 characters long. Many Photoshop books are written by technical people with little design skill, and they could never put a book out with these real world tips. This is an excellent way to prepare for the Adobe Certified Exam also.
The negatives Kelby is great in person, but the stories beginning every chapter are not that interesting. Maybe they come off better live, but you will skip the stories as you encounter them, to get to the actual tips in the book. The tips could use a copy revision to condense them. Page 12 takes an entire half-page to just tell you what I can say in one sentence.
The marching ants around your selections can be hidden using Command H PC: Ctrl H to hide them. Page 16 mentions that you can click and drag swatches in your brushes preset manager by holding Command PC: You actually need not hold down that key. Page 17 is the same exact tip just that it is for levels. They really could have wrote this as one tip. Page 42 mentions that you can steal color using the testube on the desktop. They forget to mention how inaccurate that is as it samples in RGB, and needs to be used with caution. You cannot match an illustrator color this way.
So this is a killer tip if you work on final production work, or you can even screw up a background pattern matching a graphic this way because of color management. Is this book for you? Instant Selection from Any Path. The Coolest File Format. Bring Your Documents Down to Size. Save Clicks When You Close. Been Bingeing on Ram? Maybe It's Time to Purge!
Transforming and Copying at the Same Time. The Smaller Toolbox Trick. Snap Your Palettes to Order. One-Button Refresh for the File Browser. Greased Lightnin' - Way Cool Tips. Cracking the Easter Egg Mystery. Supercharge Your Filter Effects. Undo on a Slider! Resizing Paths the Easy Way.
Let Those Windows Breathe! The Multiple Undo Shortcut. Photoshop Can Add Them for You! Dragging and Dropping Where You Want.
Rasterize Times 2, 4, Instant Thumbnail Size Control. Over this book is spectacular, but it was slapped together a little quickly and lost a few cows for repeating content and having a tip adding noise to drop shadows in one chapter and about picking up the object color in the other end of the book. Been Bingeing on Ram? Stay Away from the Toolbox.
Feather a Selection Without the Guessing Game. Top-Secret Photoshop Splash Screen. That's Impossible, Isn't It? Make a Photoshop Client Presentation. Change Brush Softness On-the-Fly. Slide Shows Using Photoshop. Building a Better Background Eraser Tool. Start with a Clean Slate. Instant Thumbnail Size Control. The Undocumented Airbrush Toggle Trick. New Documents with Your Custom Specs in 7. Burn Rubber - Smokin' Type Tips. Type Changes, No Problem.
Rendering Text in Just One Click. Putting a Photo Inside Type.
Fonts, Fonts, and More Fonts. Make Your Text Jump into Action. Seeing Your Type Change Color. Editing Text by Highlighting It. Rasterize Times 2, 4, Honey, I Need Some Space: Bring Those Type Layers Together. The Long and the Short of Type. It's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore. Exact Sizing for Your Text Columns. Removing Those Typographically Incorrect Spaces.
Don't Have Italic or Bold? Zoom Out for Sharper Web Images. ImageReady Feature Comes to Photoshop. Two Easy Ways to Create Transparency.
Need to Shrink the File Size? Change One Preference, Save a Bundle.
Let Photoshop Write the Code Too! Get Super-Clean Type for the Web. Got a Folder Full of Images for the Web? File-Naming Timesaver for Mac Users. Read the Web Color Onscreen. Crop It Even Closer.
Don't Load That Bogus Slice! ImageReady Window Speed Tip. ImageReady's Auto Tile Maker.
Style Warning for Web Designers. Fast Company - Photoshop Design Tips. Focusing Attention Using Color.
Focusing Attention by Adding Depth. Shadow Opacity and Softness. Add Color to Your Shadows. Use the Built-In Color Wheel. Color Combinations Affect Size and Proportion. Determining the Length of a Cast Shadow. Effective Ghosting or Backscreening.
Editorial Reviews. www.farmersmarketmusic.com Review. This book is like a nutritious dessert. For many people, the sidebar tips sprinkled throughout most software books are. Photoshop 7 Killer Tips is a HUGE bang in a small, accessible package. When it comes to Photoshop, time is money. This book is all about.
Create Your Own Custom Typeface. Add a Point of Reference to Convey Size. Speedy Gonzalez - Layer Tips. Missing Your Background Layer?