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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual Review In Few Words (Mini Review)<\/h2>\n

Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual is the manual\u00a0that should have been bundled with Photoshop CC 2014, cutely enough, the book takes a form of a friendly manual that tried to teach you how to use Photoshop with a good amount of details.<\/p>\n

If you plan to use Photoshop for Photography, this book can be useful for you, as it outlines a\u00a0roadmap for those interested in Photography, but I still think you need to check out some other Photoshop book that is dedicated for Photography. Like\u00a0The Way of the Digital Photographer: Walking the Photoshop post-production path to more creative photography.<\/a><\/p>\n

If you want to learn the core Photoshop tools, you may be interested in my book Learn Photoshop CC With Picture<\/a><\/strong>, which explains the most important Photoshop features in one of the easiest ways possible.<\/p>\n

\"Buy<\/a>See more Photoshop books in Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n

Learn Photoshop CC With Picture<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pros<\/h2>\n
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  • The steps shows you what you should do\u00a0in bold, then explain it in details after that.<\/li>\n
  • Explains the order of chapters for those interested in Photography<\/li>\n
  • Covers a lot of topics in Photoshop, as you can see below in this review.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Cons<\/h2>\n
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    • If you are totally new to Photoshop, you may feel thrown off at times while you are reading this book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual is more suitable for<\/h2>\n
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      • Beginners who have an idea on how to use Photoshop, and want to fully learn how to use it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        The missing manual series is based that expensive programs like Photoshop should at least come with a good manual to teach you how to use it. And since no such manual comes with the program, they are providing one for you.<\/p>\n

        Even for a manual, Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual is a serious book, it is huge and very detailed, and it covers a lot of topics in Photoshop CC 2014 (I talk about that in details below). If you read one of the Missing Manual books before, you have a good idea what I\u00a0mean.<\/p>\n

        One of the good things I like about the missing manual books, is that the steps shows you what you should do\u00a0in bold, then explain it in details after that, which will suit both\u00a0who want a short explanation, and those who wants to be taken by hand and make it easier for them to understand Photoshop. For example, in one of the tutorials, the book tell you to \u201cUsing the white eye dropper, click the gray background to make it white\u201d, if you know how to do that, good! You only need to do that then move to the next step. If you don\u2019t, then detailed explanation is presented below the step to tell you what you need to do.<\/p>\n

        The 6 missing parts<\/h2>\n

        Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual is decided into 6 parts, each covers a certain part of Photoshop, we will go through what this book covers in more details in the next section of this review.<\/p>\n

        Part 1\u00a0–\u00a0The basics<\/h3>\n

        This part teaches you the basics of Photoshop CC, like the user interface, opening & creating documents before delving into the other more useful aspects of Photosop like layers,\u00a0masks & channels. I find it very positive that the book introduces layers from an early stage of the book. The same goes for channels, something many new Photoshop users tend to avoid.<\/p>\n

        Part 2\u00a0– Editing images<\/h3>\n

        As the name suggests, this part is about editing images in general, it introduces you to topics like\u00a0cropping & resizing images, correcting their colours & combining them.<\/p>\n

        Part 3\u00a0– The Artistic Side of Photoshop<\/h3>\n

        The author calls this part “The part that is all about creativity”, like painting\u00a0& choosing colors for your document.\u00a0Including a part about create paintings from scratch, something that is very important in case you plan to use Photoshop for painting. In additional to that, you will also learn various other topics from this part:-<\/p>\n

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        • Using the Pen tool.<\/li>\n
        • Photoshop Typography.<\/li>\n
        • Using filters\u00a0&\u00a0and smart filters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          I found the topics in this part to be kinda not very much related to each other, but that is unlikely to hurt your learning process.<\/p>\n

          Part 4 – Printing And The Web<\/h3>\n

          This part is exactly like its name suggests, it covers what you need to\u00a0know on how to prepare your images for printing, so that you will get the same colour on paper as on your screen. Along with how to create different types of images for the web, as well as slicing images, and a few other things.<\/p>\n

          Part 5 – Photoshop Power<\/h3>\n

          This part is about Photoshop features that you may not use right away, but they are important features that you will totally appreciate if you got to use them right. Like using actions to automate common tasks and installing plug-ins.<\/p>\n

          Part 6 –\u00a0Appendixes<\/h3>\n

          It probably should\u00a0not be considered a part of Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, but since it contains many interesting things, so I considered it the 6th part of the book. The appendixes includes:-<\/p>\n

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          • Installing & uninstalling Photoshop.<\/li>\n
          • Troubleshooting tips.<\/li>\n
          • Tour of the tools\u00a0panel.<\/li>\n
          • A grand tour of the 200+ menu items.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n