Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative Use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC - Martin Evening

Advantages: Concise yet easy to follow, some impressive looking projects, well presented
Disadvantages: Special effects section, a little light (sic) on explanations

...added looked embarassingly bad. On the other hand, a fairly average image of a church bell got turned in to an evocative grainy black and white image that looked truly inspiring. Conclusion Whilst there are a some projects that really didn't work for me, the bulk of this book provides essential reading for any Photoshop Elements users who want to give their images that extra tweak needed to make them look a bit more interesting. With almost all books that cover this territory being resolutely Photoshop or Photoshop CS based, the value of a book that uses Photoshop Elements to achieve the same goals should not be underestimated. It also goes some way to show that Photoshop Elements, whilst a far cheaper sibling to the full blown Photoshop, is capable of some extremely effective editing tasks. I'd have liked a bit more background detail... Read review

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Advantages: A deliciously naughty book
Disadvantages: Perhaps not applicable to every normal person's life

...Few people will be unfamiliar with the name Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, one of the original 'IT' girls and general gal about town. And few of those people who do know her, ahem, work, will bat an eyelid when they learn that in her latest effort, a self-help book of sorts, she encourages readers to bring out their naughty sides and, well, be more like her. She's joined in this quest by the lesser known Sharon Marshall, a TV and print journalist you may know from the likes of the News of The World, and This Morning (and you may not as well - I had to wiki her to find out that much). I first read bits of this book serialised in the Sunday Times Style magazine (for which, incidentally, TPT used to be a contributor). And, though I really liked the extracts, I was a little bit worried that they might be the best bits from a much longer book... Read review

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Advantages: Great restauraunt recommendations, useful price guides etc
Disadvantages: Maps not great, little short of detail

...enough information for you to know what you are likely to be interested in and to give you a basic overview when you are there. If there is anything you are particularly interested in you may find the guidebook a little light and a guided tour/ more detailed book may prove more use. Having said that the diagram of the set out of the sisitine chapel told you all you really needed to know while you were actually looking at the artwork. That evening we picked a restauraunt from the book near to our hotel. Unfortunately we chose badly as it was actually closed for refurbishment! We ended up in one down the road whish was pretty good though so no major problem. Another day of tour book guided sight seeing followed, I personally liked the little bits of more local knowledge in the book, such as the short write up about the cat sanctuary in... Read review

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