Beginners beware

I purchased this book because the accompnying CD claimed to have the full color images from many of the examples. This is great for a beginner like myself as it's very useful to be able to follow along with the instructions.

It's good that you can get many of the missing images at www.hayden.com, however there are still numerous mistakes in the book that can make life very difficult for the beginner.

For example, on page 116, when examining CMYK channels, figure 4.12 shows the RGB channels.

In another instance, while learning to load custom textures, the authors ask you to load a saved texture file. While texture files need to be loaded in .psd format, the authors supply only the .jpg. Thus a novice would need to understand that she needs to first save the .jpg as .psd, and then load the new texture. None of this is described.

Finally, there are numerous small omissions and oversights that make following the example more difficult. A complex program such as Photoshop can have many modes and parameters set. The frequent omission of small steps and parameters can make the examples hard to follow.

I've only made it through the first 7 chapters of this book, but I would have a hard time recommending it to anybody, particularly a new user.

Other Reviews

• No review, have not read. However ....
• I was very disappointed in that the CD-ROM wasn't up to par.
• Beginners beware
• Pretty good Photoshop book
• An well thought out introduction to Photoshop.