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I recently upgraded to Photoshop 6 from 5.5. As a special incentive where I purchased it, I got a choice of either Katrin Eismann’s book of Photoshop Restoration & Retouching or a 4 CD set of Julieanne Kost’s Photoshop Quickstart. The choice was simple since I already had Katrin’s book.
This CD set was on the basics of Photoshop using version 6 and demonstrating all the new features of 6 as well as basic things in Photoshop. Although, I pretty much new the basics of Photoshop from using it for 4 years, I didn’t have all the ins and outs worked out in the newest version. I found this CD set very informative. I learned a surprising amount of new things I hadn’t known before and discovered that I liked the CDs for learning as well as the books. First of all, I could run Photoshop on half my monitor with Quick Time running the CD lesson next to it. I could stop it and repeat things and work along with the CD if I wanted to as I would a book. I also liked hearing the lessons as well as seeing as things were being done. Sometimes in a book things are not as clear as seeing each step visually done and explained. There were techniques and shortcuts that I had never known about and was amazed at some things even though this was a beginner’s lesson.
The cost of this CD set is $99 and I think especially for the beginner, it’s worth every penny because you have an excellent reference and she hits all the topics. Weighing it out vs. a class I would say it definitely holds it’s own.
There are 12 lessons (3 to a CD) plus layered psd files to download and work along with the lessons. Here’s a list of the lessons:
System Setup (a definite must know)
Tool Overview (lots of new tools and new places to put them in version 6)
Color Settings and Prefs (very informative for matching your printer and other color spaces and the differences are explained)
File sizes (good for those confused on resolution issues)
Basic Layers (lots of new version 6 stuff here)
Digital Darkroom Tools (covers the liquefy command and how to magnify before you go to liquefy)
Basic Collage Technique (works a lot with layer masks and layer sets)
Basic Selections (great short cuts I didn’t know before)
Painterly Effects (learned a lot of new things in this one)
Typography Tools (for newbies to version 6 this is real informative)
Saving Files (learned some things here also)
Printing (I will go back to review this one, very fascinating)
I may hesitate on the price some but most of the books are running $50 and up so it definitely is competitive and I got just as much from this as I did some books I bought. I will definitely refer to it a lot while learning version 6’s buttons and whistles.
If you are interested, you can find these and others with specialized training at www.deancollins.com There may even be places to get them cheaper if you check around or see if you can get them through the library even.
DJ
I recently upgraded to Photoshop 6 from 5.5. As a special incentive where I purchased it, I got a choice of either Katrin Eismann’s book of Photoshop Restoration & Retouching or a 4 CD set of Julieanne Kost’s Photoshop Quickstart. The choice was simple since I already had Katrin’s book.
This CD set was on the basics of Photoshop using version 6 and demonstrating all the new features of 6 as well as basic things in Photoshop. Although, I pretty much new the basics of Photoshop from using it for 4 years, I didn’t have all the ins and outs worked out in the newest version. I found this CD set very informative. I learned a surprising amount of new things I hadn’t known before and discovered that I liked the CDs for learning as well as the books. First of all, I could run Photoshop on half my monitor with Quick Time running the CD lesson next to it. I could stop it and repeat things and work along with the CD if I wanted to as I would a book. I also liked hearing the lessons as well as seeing as things were being done. Sometimes in a book things are not as clear as seeing each step visually done and explained. There were techniques and shortcuts that I had never known about and was amazed at some things even though this was a beginner’s lesson.
The cost of this CD set is $99 and I think especially for the beginner, it’s worth every penny because you have an excellent reference and she hits all the topics. Weighing it out vs. a class I would say it definitely holds it’s own.
There are 12 lessons (3 to a CD) plus layered psd files to download and work along with the lessons. Here’s a list of the lessons:
System Setup (a definite must know)
Tool Overview (lots of new tools and new places to put them in version 6)
Color Settings and Prefs (very informative for matching your printer and other color spaces and the differences are explained)
File sizes (good for those confused on resolution issues)
Basic Layers (lots of new version 6 stuff here)
Digital Darkroom Tools (covers the liquefy command and how to magnify before you go to liquefy)
Basic Collage Technique (works a lot with layer masks and layer sets)
Basic Selections (great short cuts I didn’t know before)
Painterly Effects (learned a lot of new things in this one)
Typography Tools (for newbies to version 6 this is real informative)
Saving Files (learned some things here also)
Printing (I will go back to review this one, very fascinating)
I may hesitate on the price some but most of the books are running $50 and up so it definitely is competitive and I got just as much from this as I did some books I bought. I will definitely refer to it a lot while learning version 6’s buttons and whistles.
If you are interested, you can find these and others with specialized training at www.deancollins.com There may even be places to get them cheaper if you check around or see if you can get them through the library even.
DJ
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