Customer Rating: 
Summary: Very good for beginners.
Comment: This is a perfect book if you are a beginner with Photoshop.
It is full of good images and step by step actions.
If you prefer a book for beginners and avanced users, take a look in the books by Scott Kelby.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Thorough - awesom
Comment: This book is awesome - I just bought it (April 2008). I bought Scott Kelby's Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers a while back and swear by it - but wow - Photoshop CS2 Visual Encyclopedia is even better. It has so much more content - it is chucked full of tips and techniques in a very well organized manner. While I'm working in CS3, obviously the content and tips and techniques are still very useful and valid. I'm a professional photographer and would highly recommend this book to anyone using CS2 or CS3.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: NEVER ORDERED THIS ITEM
Comment: I never ordered this item. I ordered DREAMWEAVER VISUAL.
YOU SENT ME TWO OF THESE PhotoShop Visuaol books and I returned them.
I called to no avail.
It is STILL on my charge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does anyone there take responsibility to straighten out problems?
"Customer Service" truly is an oxymoron.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very pleased...
Comment: The Adobe Photoshop CS2 Visual Encyclopedia is of a great help as a by the mac side reference look around something you forgot or heard about and are not sure how to proceed book. It is visual, for as there are many intelligences, and it goes right to the point. And, as every thing else on life, it does not tell you what the end is going to be.
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Summary: Other books are better
Comment: I bought this book based on the reviews I read on this website. I also got 3 other books: The photoshop cs2 book for digital photographers by Scott Kelby, Photoshop masking and compositing by Katrin Eismann and Photoshop cs2 killer tips by Scott Kelby and Felix Nelson. The visual encyclopedia is the worst of the four. Scott Kelby is a photoshop wizard who is also a very clear and often amusing writer. I'd buy any of his books. Katrin Eismann's book, masking and compositing, is pretty much indispensible if you are going to be seriously manipulating and compositing images. She has years of experience and her writing is in depth and easy to understand.
The Visual Encyclopedia was put together by about 30 people with Stephen Romaniello as the Author. He is a very bad, very boring, very confusing writer. Take this sentance for example:"To finish the process, you need a brush tool and a black or white Forground color swatch to finish the process." That's from page 304, one of maybe 20 pages that I've read. In addition to several credited editors there are also 3 people credited for 'quality control'. You could learn from this book but you won't learn much. A true photoshop encyclopedia would require volumes of books much thicker than this one. This book barely scatches the surface. Camera Raw is covered in 4 picture filled pages. Unless you like reading bad textbooks or are looking for new ways to fall asleep, I would not buy this book. I wish I never had.
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