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This best-selling guide from authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas has been the go-to tutorial and reference book for photography/design professionals and the textbook of choice in college classrooms for decades.

This fully updated edition includes: concise, step-by-step instructions; hundreds of carefully edited full color photographs; screen captures of program features; supplemental tips and sidebars; a thorough table of contents and index; and extensive cross references. New and updated Photoshop CS5 features are clearly marked with bright red stars in both the table of contents and main text.

Among the many new CS5 features covered in this volume are enhancements to brushes, workspaces, copying layers, Refine Mask, Lens Correction, the Spot Healing Brush, Camera Raw, and Bridge (including the new Mini Bridge).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2208 in Books
• Published on: 2010-06-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .78" h x 7.04" w x 9.10" l, 1.83 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 456 pages

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
What an overhaul
By Software Maniac
I've purchased Adobe 3rd party books over the years and I'm not sure if this was the intention, but the Visual Quickstart Guide for CS5 appears to me as a complete overhaul. Beautifully laid out, easy to find stuff, and even the screen captures (which are a big part of the book) are extra large.

Just wonderful. I wonder if the other upcoming Visual Quickstart Guides are overhauls too?

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Good reference book
By C Faison
I had to get this book for a computer graphics:imaging class I'm taking at university of baltimore. The book was to be used as a reference book for us and not necessarily a textbook. I find it very easy to use. It is especially helpful when at home doing an assignment. There's no teacher at home to ask a question so just go to the index and bam you can find what you generally in two chapters (one maybe indrotucing the tool or function and another demonstrating it in a more complex piece). It's a good book overall.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Photoshop CS5
By Edwin A. Matzner
Product Title: Photoshop CS5
ISBN: 9780321701534
comments: I own about a dozen Peachpit software books, and was totally
satisfied until I recently purchased the above, in which I am very
disappointed. Years ago I bought 032121353x "Photoshop CS" and since
that time the program has been substantially expanded, yet you shrank
586 pages to 444, brutally shortened the index, omitted all reference to
Automate, Actions, Tools, etc. and really put topgether something whose
"CS5" title is a false pretense. I will not bother returning it, but am
sorry I bought this book, and will certainly avoid Peachpit products in
future. What on earth was the publishers' idea in shortening a reference book into
uselessness? Is there any parallel in technical publishing?