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Hacking Photoshop CS2 | 
| Author: Shangara Singh
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 806901
Media: Paperback
Pages: 454
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0764597884
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780764597886
ASIN: 0764597884
Publication Date: October 21, 2005
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Product Description
This is absolutely the ultimate guide to hacking Adobe’s wildly popular graphics software, written by an Adobe Certified professional photographer and designer. This is serious, down and dirty, tweaking – blowing away the default settings, customizing appearance, optimizing performance, customizing tools and offering readers total control over Photoshop like never before. With these 300+ hacks, readers will find their work with Photoshop faster and easier than ever. Roll up your sleeves, and dive into these hacks including: - Faster Photoshop startup
- Customizing the Photoshop interface
- Hacking Photoshop’s Tools
- Access hidden dialog buttons
- Hacks for Masks, Layers, Paths, Curves and Selections
- Camera Raw tricks
and so much more.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Not for New Users July 1, 2008
Jule Kijek (Redford, MI)
This is a good book for one who already has a working knowledge of CS2. It is nicely put together with lots of full color pictures and good explainations. If you are new to photoshop CS2 start with "Classroom in a Book" and go to "100 Simplified Tricks". Both of those take you by the hand and walk you through different projects until you become familiar with all or most of the tools. I got a good deal on this book in Amazons used catagory so I had to snap it up. All and all a GREAT book for the more experienced user.
Love the layout and approach March 16, 2007
Digital Dan (Florida)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great stuff. Not a lot of fluff. Just good, straight forward tips. Presented in a concise way. Not for a beginner but even a modest user could greatly benefit from this book.
A Great At-Desk Reference May 15, 2006
Derek A. Benner (Citrus Heights, CA United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Okay. You're not going to find everything about everything in here. And it's not going to cover just one topic in exhaustive detail.
But I was able to find five different optimizations and hacks to increase my PS CS2 productivity within the first five minutes of opening this book! In the second chapter alone, in the day I've had this book, I've implemented eight of the tips to customize my work area. And I'm finding tips, tricks and hacks that allow me to do things I've wanted to learn and have searched for tutorials on through these last eight months.
This book is worth the money.
Keep on Hacking! January 29, 2006
Ruth Brown (UK)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
As a real world user from Photoshop 4 onwards, I find this book is a welcome change from the usual lists of tools etc and what they do. Hacking Photoshop, as it name suggests takes us under the bonnet and shows us all those hacks, shortcuts and clever little gizmos that we never even guessed were there. I know of no other books that explore the ins and outs of Photoshop so thoroughly and exhaustively, and what a difference to workflow whether hobbyist or professional, some of this knowledge makes, well worth the modest outlay.
Wheat and Chaff December 20, 2005
Conrad J. Obregon (New York, NY USA)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I like to think of Photoshop books as falling into three categories: process books, which take you through an entire process; cookbooks, that show you how to solve certain problems or achieve certain effects; and encyclopedias that discuss Photoshop tools and processes without reference to specific pictures. "Hacking Photoshop CS2" falls into the last category.
The book contains hundreds of tips, organized into chapters like "Optimizing Performance", "Hacking Layer Masks", and "Outputting to Print". While many of the tips are the kind that you would pick up in a process book, others are of the kind that most books miss. For example, like many other books, the author shows you how to apply ratings to images in Adobe Bridge. But he also provides a tip for quicker opening in Bridge of previews stored on a CD by exporting either the cache or sidecar files to the CD. Another new tip I encountered was a method for creating a new image with the same dimensions and color mode as an open image rather than the new image default.
The question a reader will have to ask himself is whether it's worth wading through a lot of tips that may not be relevant to the reader to get to the one tip that will help him. I suspect that heavy Photoshop users will find it more useful to do so. I also note that most of the tips are probably more applicable to graphic designers than photographers.
I was a little disappointed by some of the tips that weren't in the book. For example, in the discussion of optimizing performance, the author noted the importance of additional RAM to Photoshop but he didn't mention that if Windows users add more than two GB of RAM to their computers, Photoshop will only be able to access it if the 3 GB switch is set in the boot file.
The author has also been a little sloppy. For example, in providing the location of the Photoshop preferences file in Windows, he has omitted one of the subdirectories that you must go through to get to the file.
Still, for the serious user of Photoshop, there will probably be a few useful tips that will make this book worthwhile.
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