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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite 3 All in One (Sams Teach Yourself)
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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite 3 All in One (Sams Teach Yourself) |
Author: Mordy Golding
Published: 2007-10-04 |
List price: $34.99
Our price: $20.99
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 Sams Teach Yourself Adobe CS3 is useless
I bought this book to learn a few skills for all the apps in Adobe's CS3 Suite. It's terrible. It doesn't teach. Rather it's a giant list of features that doesn't put features in context. It doesn't provide tutorials. It doesn't give you step-by-steps. I happen to be on page 152 as I discover this Amazon review page. I wanted to learn about Quick Masks. In eleven sentences, you learn to press 'Q'. If you want instructions to follow that puts Quick Mask in context, forget it.
Not Impressed
I bought this book because I just got CS3. Now, I bought full books for reference on the programs I'll really use a lot, but I wanted a good, decent book to give me an overview of the new features of the programs I know as well as give me a decent working knowledge of the programs I don't know at all (Flash and Dreamweaver).
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br /What I found was that in each program's section... The best way to say it is that the authors and editors got bored. For the first three programs it starts out strong, then goes downhill. I skimmed the last few (up to 15-30) pages of the sections.
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br /Then the real problems started. Gobbledygook sentences. Vague explanations. References to things I know nothing about.
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br /And I really mean this. I can't believe Sam's editorial staff is so poor that they let this book go out like this. (With the gobbledygook sentences. I think someone scanned in pages, or hit keys by accident, but no matter--after more than 5 such instances, I'm getting annoyed.)
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br /I'm in the Flash section now and some concepts are beyond me. This means the authors didn't explain them well at all. To add to the confusion they're suddenly talking about features for the first time and not telling the reader how to access them or anything logical like that. The only time this one feature is mentioned in the book is this one paragraph (I checked the index. I checked Flash's help menu. Nada.) The continuity editor should have caught this bit.
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br /I used to like Sam's books, but unless this one does a bang-up job teaching me Dreamweaver, I won't be returning.
 keep shopping.
This is one of those books that treats you as if you're a 10-year-old, cracking cutesy little jokes to you while repetitively explaining and re-explaining complex functions like how to, say, open a file. It's the kind of book that will spend several liberally-spaced pages explaining how to make a rectangular selection with the selection tool in Photoshop -- and then re-explain it to you again when another program uses the same exact tool. If I still had the receipt for this I'd return it. You can learn more from free online tutorials, and learn it faster -- most of the material here you can learn just from the help files built right into the programs.
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br /You may stumble onto a helpful tip or consideration here or there in this book -- but really, this is painfully rudimentary. And I'm not that advanced a user -- I have minimal experience with CS3. The book is just very lazily done and sloppily organized and inefficiently thought out. Not comprehensive, and not something you'll be keeping on hand for reference.
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br /If you're looking for a comprehensive but casual-user guide to CS3, I'm here to spare you the disappointment of this book and recommend that you keep shopping.
 Great transaction.
I have only read a small portion of the book, but I received it in a timely manner. The parts I have read I have really enjoyed, and it is exactly what I wanted.
I love this book!!!
Some people have a real gift for taking the complex and breaking it down into a simpler language for others to understand. That's exactly what Mordy Golding did with this book and I love it!! I bought this book after trying "Adobe Illustrator CS3 WOW" which seemed to assume I already knew how to use the illustrator program and thus left out many relevant details. This book doesn't assume anything and walks you through each program step by step! It has been exhilarating! I feel capable!
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