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Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2014 release) Review In Few Words (Mini Review)<\/h2>\n
Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book\u00a0is one of the most popular Photoshop books,\u00a0and a good book to learn how to use Photoshop in general.\u00a0It explains\u00a0a good amount of Photoshop features, and it contains a lot of hand-on tutorials\u00a0to apply many of these.<\/div>\n
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In\u00a0case you plan to use Photoshop for Photography or something else, like digital painting, I suggest you get yourself a book that\u2019s dedicated for that in additional to this one.\u00a0In case you are interested in learning Photoshop CC basics in a good depth, check out my book Learn Photoshop CC With Pictures<\/a>, which I wrote with the Photoshop beginner\u00a0in mind, as it takes a deep look at the most important Photoshop features you need to use.<\/div>\n
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Learn Photoshop CC With Pictures<\/a>,<\/strong><\/div>\n

Pros of\u00a0Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2014 release)<\/h2>\n
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  • Part of the official training materials from Adobe.<\/li>\n
  • One of the most popular Photoshop books.<\/li>\n
  • Contains many interesting projects, which will provide you with a good on-hand experience.<\/li>\n
  • Contains a nice appendix at the end of the book, which covers Tools Panel Overview\u00a0with pictures.<\/li>\n
  • Covers new Photoshop CC 2014 features, including Generator, 3D printing, linked Smart Objects, Blur Gallery, smarter Smart Guides, Perspective Warp, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Cons of\u00a0Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2014 release)<\/h2>\n
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    • The book doesn\u2019t explain how to apply some of the the tools in-depth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      The book is more suitable for<\/h2>\n
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      • Beginners who wants to get to know Photoshop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
        Photoshop is a huge program, and it is totally inefficient to learn it without the help of a book, tutorial or a course to help you around. At least at the beginning of learning how to use the program.\u00a0And that\u2019s where\u00a0Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book comes, which\u00a0is part of the official training materials from Adobe. If you looked at\u00a0the book cover, you will even see that contains the photo in the splash screen that you see when you run Photoshop CC.<\/div>\n
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        Generally speaking,\u00a0Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book is a good book to learn Photoshop and get started with it.\u00a0It won\u2019t make you master everything in the program with it, but it will teach you a good amount of things. The chapters cover a wide area of Photoshop,\u00a0like basic photo correction\u00a0&\u00a0layers basics.<\/div>\n
        Some of the other chapters give you a good overview on various subjects\u00a0which you may not use, but it is good to know that these features exist just in\u00a0case.<\/div>\n
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        The book will\u00a0start by introducing you to Photoshop user interface, which is good to know how to arrange it to suit your own need, though I personally prefer teaching some few things to the reader\u00a0to motivate him, it is very common for books to start with the user interface like that.<\/div>\n
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        Then the book goes from introductions and user interface to the real work in the upcoming new chapters, some of these chapters in the book are very interesting, I personally liked two chapters in it. The advanced Composing techniques chapter help you creating cover pictures by composing pictures\u00a0on the top of each other. The other chapter I liked was the one covering\u00a0the mixer brush, which is one good way to paint with\u00a0Phtosohop, which you will find useful if you plan to use Photoshop for paining.<\/div>\n
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        You are very likely chapter 5, named \u201cQuick Fixes”, which covers the most common tasks people want to do with Photoshop. Like creating\u00a0panorama. Correcting redeye problem, correcting\u00a0distortion in images,\u00a0moving objects inside the image, and\u00a0blurring the background of an image, so\u00a0that the focus is one the main object in it.<\/div>\n
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        At the beginning of each chapter, Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book\u00a0shows you an estimate of how each lesson will take you. But there is a good chance it will take you more than what they specified to finsh the chapter. This is particularly the case if you are very new to Photoshop. Each chapter ends with review questions, to help you test what you have learned.<\/div>\n
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        The last few chapters in the book gives you a good introduction\u00a0of various features\u00a0of Photoshop, but bear\u00a0in mind that these features are not fully covered in it.<\/div>\n
        Editing video, which can be useful if you plan to use Photoshop with Adobe premiere.<\/div>\n
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        • Camera Raw, which I will talk about shortly.<\/li>\n
        • Printing\u00a0images\u00a0to produce consistent colours on paper compared to the screen.<\/li>\n
        • A little overview on 3D in Phtoshop.<\/li>\n
        • 3D printing, which is usefull in case you have a 3D printer or plan to get one.\u00a0Most people won\u2019t use\u00a0the things covered in this chapter for now, but it is very interesting to know about this new technology, and how Photoshop covers it.<\/li>\n
        • Preparing files for the web, including compressing images the right way. Creatine a button for a website.\u00a0Record an action, which is a way to record something you do, only to make Photoshop do it again for you, which is a good way to save time if used correctly,\u00a0and use an action on multiple images to save time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
          The projects in Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2014 release)will give you a good hand-on experience, which you will need to start your own practicing after you finish reading this book (which is pretty fun, by the way).\u00a0Some of the things you will do in\u00a0the projects:-<\/div>\n
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          • Creating a gift card.<\/li>\n
          • Correcting Photos.<\/li>\n
          • Using layers to create a simple Hawaii postcard.<\/li>\n
          • Creating panorama pictures.<\/li>\n
          • Raising the head of a man using the puppet wrap features, and making wave words come out of his mouth. All that is done as part of creating a cover of an imaginary magazine called \u201cDigital\u201d.<\/li>\n
          • Create vector cup by tracing an image of a real cup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n