Very good reference book for Photoshop. Not a book to sit down and read from cover to cover but to pick up with photoshop and try new things. ( )

Photoshop CC, the Missing Manual is the latest in a series of Photoshop Missing Manual books from O'Reilly. Like its predecessors, it contains some updated information specific to the current edition of Photoshop (the so-called Creative Cloud edition), as well as a ton of information relevant to recent editions (CS6, CS5, ...) of Photoshop. The Photoshop software does have a help function, which is useful if you just want to check a detail about using Photoshop, but if you want to learn Photoshop, or if you need a comprehensive reference, you need a book, and this book is one of the best. Highly recommended! ( )

This is a HUGE book, especially for an ebook. It is well-written and has an exhaustive index which will serve those of us that have some familiarity with Photoshop, but really don't want to read the whole thing, but use it as a reference manual. The belly dancer graphic does draw one's interest into getting deeper into Photoshop.
I keep it handy and make great use of the Adobe "Find" feature. ( )

O'Reilly books and the 'Missing Manual' series have done a great job in making this Photoshop CC manual useful. The index is extensive and the page numbers in the index are hot links (at least in Adobe Reader). The index and chapter headings (and all chapter sub-divisions) are bookmarked so it is easy to navigate to the index or scan the chapters by name and navigate directly. I loaded the DRM free copy into dropbox and was able to easily read the manual on my Mac and MacBook with shared annotations. Reading on my iPad is clear but no shared annotations are available. The iPad Adobe Reader app worked fine with the book also using the 'Open With' feature of the reader. Four stars for O'Reilly in producing the manual for easy electronic viewing; who wants a paper manual that weighs more than my portable computer?

The content by Lesa Snider is readable and clear.I checked her descriptions of the features I use most often (e.g. image straightening, import and export), and felt that they were covered adequately. She did an especially good job outlining the new features of Photoshop CC and there is a full page note that explains the implications of Adobe's new rent-forever Photoshop. All in all, I think this manual is a useful addition to the pile of manuals already out for Photoshop CC, but the competition is fierce.
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