Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

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).

Customer Reviews:

Good reference book

By C Faison - September 25, 2010

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.

What an overhaul

By Software Maniac - July 11, 2010

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?

A bit disappointed

By Small Ewe - July 16, 2011

This book seems great for beginners and the color throughout really helps. However, there is not a single sentence about using the slice tool, which is pretty unbelievable! When I looked at a For Dummies book, there is a whole section devoted to using this tool. I don't consider this tool "advanced" in any way, and now I suspect there are other key parts that have been left out of this book (I haven't read it thoroughly enough yet).

The reason I bought this is because the last QuickStart book I had was for Photoshop 5 and I decided it was time to live in the 2000s. I do think this book is great for those just getting into Photoshop, but it was probably not worth it for me to buy since I've used it for years, and it seems to cover only the very basics.