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Four Photoshop 6 Books Reviewed

Photoshop is an amazing program. It has so many features and capabilities that to try to cover them all could take a book. No, make that many books. If you go to any bookstore, you'll find a phenominal number of books all on this one program.

Of these four books, only two are trying to be a "how to use the program" (Adobe Photoshop 6, Studio Techniques, and Real World Adobe Photoshop). The other two cover such different aspects of Photoshop that they should be considered as suplimental books. Like all books though, you may find that one book presents one particular aspect of the program in a way you best understand while a different book may explain a different subject in a manner you best understand. That is, I can't say that any of these books will be all things to all people.

In all these books, ImageReady is an afterthought. Beyond setting up rollovers and animated GIFs, there is not much information on how to use ImageReady. These are Photoshop Books, keep that in mind.

Adobe Photoshop 6.0, Studio Techniques

by Ben Willmore
Adobe Press books, published by Peachpit Press
556 pages
U.S. $44.99 (Canada $67.50, UK £33.99)

Photoshop 6, Shop Manual

by Donnie O'Quinn
New Riders
1074 pages
U.S. $39.99 (Canada $59.95, UK £30.99)

Real World Adobe Photoshop 6

by David Blatner and Bruce Fraser
Peachpit Press
787 pages
U.S. $49.99 (Canada $74.95, UK £37.99)

Photoshop, Photo-retouching Secrets

by Scott Kelby
New Riders
245 pages
U.S. $39.99 (Canada $59.95, UK £30.99)

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