Photoshop 5 Type Magic

By Greg Simsic

This is a useful guide to creating cool, strange, and pretty type effects in Photoshop 5 for Macintosh and Windows. This updated edition, written for the new version of the image-manipulation package,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156830465X
• ISBN13: 9781568304656
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Hayden Books
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Reference

I found that this has been and still is an excellent reference to creating cool and interesting type/effects with Photoshop 5.0 or later. I have been using it for several years now and still keep going back to the book for additional ideas. I do not recomend this book to begining photoshop users, for the instructions are somewhat technical. I have used/modified most of the effects in this book and my clients love the work. For a reference I have found it invaluable.

The Starting Place

If you are a well versed but not very advanced photoshop user this book is GREAT. It is a great way to move from a basic understanding of the functions in photoshop to a more advanced level. The effects do not have to be used on text and because of this I use this book as a quick reference almost all the time.

Type Magic with Photoshop 5, yes yes

Hello my name is Johnathan Mark Smith from 1HOSTPLUS.COM and asa web designer I am always looking for cool ways to make new typemagic for the logos and web sites I have to make for clients. After reading this book I now know how to make alot more type magic with photoshop then before. If you are looking to learn how to make magic with photoshop for the web then this is the book for you

Very useful and easy to follow!

Adobe Photoshop 5 Type Magic is perfect for any aspiring web graphic designer. The book is well written and explains all the steps. There are many neat tricks and many impressive tutorials. The biggest problem I had with this book is that the CD was poorly designed. Some of the file names have slashes in them making them invalid for use. I have tried to contact the author but no success.

I liked this book so much, I bought two more as gifts

I found out about this book by accident, and I'm so glad that I did. What a great find! These effects are all great, and it's cheaper than buying text programs. I've already bought 2 more books as gifts to other graphic artists, and I'm sure you will benefit from this new found knowledge.