" the techniques you’ll learn within the steps will transfer to other tasks and will ultimately make you a better imageer." (Advanced Photoshop, October 2006)

Sherry London is a graphic designer, fiber artist, teacher, and author of a number of books on Photoshop, Illustrator, and Painter including Photoshop 7 Magic (with Rhoda Grossman), Photoshop Textures Magic, and Photoshop Special FX How To. Her Photoshop designed fiber art has been featured in Fiber Arts magazine and exhibited at juried Embroiderer’s Guild of America Fiber Forum group shows nationwide. Sherry is the owner of London Computing: PhotoFX, a digital art studio. She has taught for the prestigious Thunder Lizard Photoshop Conference and the Professional Photographer’s of America seminars. She currently teaches a number of Photoshop courses via the Internet through colleges and universities worldwide. To find a college or university near you, go to Education To Go’s website at www.ed2go.com. Sherry writes for a number of magazines. Her articles and reviews have appeared in MacWeek, MacUser, MacWorld, Computer Artist, Electronic Publishing, Desktop Publishing, and Pre magazines. She currently writes the QuickTips column for Photoshop Users magazine as well as feature articles and reviews for both Photoshop User and Mac Design (now Layers magazine). Sherry’s web site is www.sherrylondon.com.

"?the techniques you?ll learn within the steps will transfer to other tasks and will ultimately make you a better imageer." (Advanced Photoshop, October 2006)

Travel to a side of Photoshop CS2 you may never have seen before! Here are nearly 50 way?out, advanced effects, colorfully illustrated step by step to show you exactly how to work the magic. Learn to handle some of Photoshop?s trickiest commands, including Knockout, Blend?If, and Clipping Masks. Create glass text, submerge a city under water, create mythical creatures, cross?breed your favorite fruits ? and that?s just for starters. If you have experience using Photoshop, you?ll love what you see on this side. Wild!

• Unlock the mysteries of Photoshop?s new Vanishing Point filter and Smart Objects
• Learn non?destructive editing and compositing methods
• Experiment with aging effects, transform a photo into a woodcut, or multiply an image in different colors
• Build your dream body without diet or exercise, and turn your friend into a superhero
• Create cool reflections and multiple exposures, or recreate a portrait using text patterns

Travel to a side of Photoshop CS2 you may never have seen before! Here are nearly 50 ways out, advanced effects, colorfully illustrated step by step to show you exactly how to work the magic. Learn to handle some of Photoshop’s trickiest commands, including Knockout, Blend If, and Clipping Masks. Create glass text, submerge a city under water, create mythical creatures, cross breed your favorite fruits and that’s just for starters. If you have experience using Photoshop, you’ll love what you see on this side. Wild! This book helps you to: unlock the mysteries of Photoshop’s new Vanishing Point filter and Smart Objects; learn non destructive editing and compositing methods; experiment with aging effects, transform a photo into a woodcut, or multiply an image in different colors; build your dream body without diet or exercise, and turn your friend into a superhero; and create cool reflections and multiple exposures, or recreate a portrait using text patterns.

Travel to a side of Photoshop CS2 you may never have seen before! Here are nearly 50 wild, way?out effects, colorfully illustrated step by step to show you exactly how to work the magic. Learn to handle some of Photoshop?s trickiest commands, including Knockout, Blend?If, and Clipping Masks. Create glass text, submerge a city under water, create mythical creatures, cross?breed your favorite fruits — and that?s just for starters. You?ll love what you see on this side. Wild!

• Unlock the mysteries of Photoshop?s new Vanishing Point filter and Smart Objects
• Learn non?destructive editing and compositing methods
• Experiment with aging effects, transform a photo into a woodcut, or multiply an image in different colors
• Build your dream body without diet or exercise, and turn your friend into a superhero
• Create cool reflections and multiple exposures, or recreate a portrait using text patterns

Sherry London is a graphic designer, fiber artist, teacher, and author of a number of books on Photoshop, Illustrator, and Painter including Photoshop 7 Magic (with Rhoda Grossman), Photoshop Textures Magic, and Photoshop Special FX How To. Her Photoshop?designed fiber art has been featured in Fiber Arts magazine and exhibited at juried Embroiderer?s Guild of America Fiber Forum group shows nationwide.
Sherry is the owner of London Computing: PhotoFX, a digital art studio. She has taught for the prestigious Thunder Lizard Photoshop Conference and the Professional Photographer?s of America seminars. She currently teaches a number of Photoshop courses via the Internet through colleges and universities worldwide. To find a college or university near you, go to Education To Go?s website at www.ed2go.com.
Sherry writes for a number of magazines. Her articles and reviews have appeared in MacWeek, MacUser, MacWorld, Computer Artist, Electronic Publishing, Desktop Publishing, and Pre? magazines. She currently writes the QuickTips column for Photoshop Users magazine as well as feature articles and reviews for both Photoshop User and Mac Design (now Layers magazine). Sherry?s web site is www.sherrylondon.com.

Travel to a side of Photoshop CS2 you may never have seen before! Here are nearly 50 way-out, advanced effects, colorfully illustrated step by step to show you exactly how to work the magic. Learn to handle some of Photoshop’s trickiest commands, including Knockout, Blend-If, and Clipping Masks. Create glass text, submerge a city under water, create mythical creatures, cross-breed your favorite fruits — and that’s just for starters. If you have experience using Photoshop, you’ll love what you see on this side. Wild!

• Unlock the mysteries of Photoshop’s new Vanishing Point filter and Smart Objects
• Learn non-destructive editing and compositing methods
• Experiment with aging effects, transform a photo into a woodcut, or multiply an image in different colors
• Build your dream body without diet or exercise, and turn your friend into a superhero
• Create cool reflections and multiple exposures, or recreate a portrait using text patterns

• A full-color cookbook of ideas, with step-by-step instructions for creating way-out, fun effects for photography, Web design, and commercial art
• Some possibilities include morphing a rhino’s head onto a woman, dressing a wolf in sheepskin, turning a photo into neon art, submerging a cityscape beneath the sea, and aging a young person into a wrinkled senior citizen
• Among nearly 50 effects presented are type, lighting, and photographic effects, photo manipulations, visual puns, art styles, and wild backgrounds
• Shows the reader how to dive into the fun stuff, without a lot of text and theory

Travel to a side of Photoshop CS2 you may never have seen before! Here are nearly 50 wild, way-out effects, colorfully illustrated step by step to show you exactly how to work the magic. Learn to handle some of Photoshop’s trickiest commands, including Knockout, Blend-If, and Clipping Masks. Create glass text, submerge a city under water, create mythical creatures, cross-breed your favorite fruits — and that’s just for starters. You’ll love what you see on this side. Wild!

• Unlock the mysteries of Photoshop’s new Vanishing Point filter and Smart Objects
• Learn non-destructive editing and compositing methods
• Experiment with aging effects, transform a photo into a woodcut, or multiply an image in different colors
• Build your dream body without diet or exercise, and turn your friend into a superhero
• Create cool reflections and multiple exposures, or recreate a portrait using text patterns

* A full-color cookbook of ideas, with step-by-step instructions for creating way-out, fun effects for photography, Web design, and commercial art
* Some of the possibilities include encasing a person in ice, digitally clothing an animal, morphing a youngster into a wrinkled senior citizen, haunting a room with digital ghosts, and creating flaming text
* Among the 75 effects presented are type, lighting, and photographic effects, photo manipulation, visual puns, art styles, and wild backgrounds
* Shows the reader how to dive into the fun stuff, without a lot of text and theory

So tempting, but fails to teach...
I looked through this book in the store, thought there were some really neat projects, and decided to buy it.
I should add that I know Photoshop quite well, including layers and such, but I am not a pro, I do mostly photo editing.
I am also very good at following instructions, but right there is where this book fails. Sometimes the instructions are precise, and sometimes they are not, very inconsistent. Sometimes the author will tell you how to achieve something, and then he will say something similar to, "duplicate and rasterize the layer". So does he want me to rasterize the original layer or the duplicate one? And which type of rasterizing would he like me to perform? These sort of little questions creep up several times in a project, and my finished projects never match what he has done.
I have started several of the projects in this book, and have to admit defeat, I have not been able to recreate one of them to exact specifications.
Like someone else mentioned, at least in other books, there is a learning curve, you find a new shortcut, or a neat way of doing something, but I have not had that a-ha effect with this book.
I have to say that I cannot recommend this book, and because it really didn’t teach me one new thing about Photoshop, I have to give it one star.

For those who is not afraid of challenge
This book is continuation of "Gone Wild" series. As distinct from "Illustrator CS2 Gone Wild", this book have more interesting tutorials (bigger book - more tutorials) and also CD, where you can find all files for this book and follow every step of tutorials.

From my side I would also like to say that this book is very interesting in that way, that it gives you a look at very unusual tutorials and designs. What I mean by unusual? Let’s say that at the end of 19th century nobody understood paintings of Kazimir Malevich. And misunderstanding with this book is related to that fact (I guess) that many people think that all information is too easy or not interesting. But try to do it yourself and you will stuck at some point not knowing what to do or HOW to do.

With this book you get a chance to see unique and inspiring techniques that are very abstract.
That means that you have chance to make acquaintance with new style or start from it. In couple of words, this book dares to show you that side of design that from first look you can find unimportant.

I think many tutorials are great and very good explained. With a bit of fantasy you can always combine different techniques and make your own. It’s good way to study, to improve your skills and to take a look in new direction of designing. The one think I agree that this book is not for photographers. For them there’re always special series of books with mark "For Digital Photographers Only" (Photoshop CS2 I found very good and really great book for Photographers).

If you’re a person that likes theory first, I would suggest that you need to start from Photoshop Bible. Great reference and all information is always within a touch.

Book is printed on good quality paper; it has a lot of tips in places where you would like to do some things in other or your own manner. At the beginning of every tutorial you will find end-plan.

What kind of tutorial can you expect inside? Let’s see:
- "Make your ex-partner old" (very funny tutorial if you want to see how looks your partner or ex-partner when he/she is old)
- Atlantis found (one of my favorites - very creative tutorial)
- Photo merge
- The Highway
- Neon signs for bars or café (maybe you want to become a marketing executive then this kind of tutorials will be very useful for you)
- It come out of space (make your own alien without any sketches using only Photoshop)

Any person will find his favorite tutorial in this book and don’t afraid to take new challenges or extend your designers vision. You should try it or you will never know if it is good for you or not.

For those who is not afraid of challenge
After reading all reviews (that I find not really fair) I decided to put my opinion on the table.

Before I write my reviews, I’m very curious what other people think about this or other book. And I should say that in this particular case I am not agree with some of them.

I see that many people have chosen this book as a start point for travel inside of Photoshop. And this book (as I see) is often compared to other references. This book is not a reference and if you would visit companion website, you would without any doubt have more information about what you can expect inside of this book.

This book is continuation of "Gone Wild" series. As distinct from "Illustrator CS2 Gone Wild", this book have more interesting tutorials (bigger book - more tutorials) and also CD, where you can find all files for this book and follow every step of tutorials.

From my side I would also like to say that this book is very interesting in that way, that it gives you a look at very unusual tutorials and designs. What I mean by unusual? Let’s say that at the end of 19th century nobody understood paintings of Kazimir Malevich. And misunderstanding with this book is related to that fact (I guess) that many people think that all information is too easy or not interesting. But try to do it yourself and you will stuck at some point not knowing what to do or HOW to do.

With this book you get a chance to see unique and inspiring techniques that are very abstract.
That means that you have chance to make acquaintance with new style or start from it. In couple of words, this book dares to show you that side of design that from first look you can find unimportant.

I think many tutorials are great and very good explained. With a bit of fantasy you can always combine different techniques and make your own. It’s good way to study, to improve your skills and to take a look in new direction of designing. The one think I agree that this book is not for photographers. For them there’re always special series of books with mark "For Digital Photographers Only" (Photoshop CS2 I found very good and really great book for Photographers).

If you’re a person that likes theory first, I would suggest that you need to start from Photoshop Bible. Great reference and all information is always within a touch.

Book is printed on good quality paper; it has a lot of tips in places where you would like to do some things in other or your own manner. At the beginning of every tutorial you will find end-plan.

What kind of tutorial can you expect inside? Let’s see:
- "Make your ex-partner old" (very funny tutorial if you want to see how looks your partner or ex-partner when he/she is old)
- Atlantis found (one of my favorites - very creative tutorial)
- Photo merge
- The Highway
- Neon signs for bars or café (maybe you want to become a marketing executive then this kind of tutorials will be very useful for you)
- It come out of space (make your own alien without any sketches using only Photoshop)

Any person will find his favorite tutorial in this book and don’t afraid to take new challenges or extend your designers vision. You should try it or you will never know if it is good for you or not.

Interesting projects- if the support files would work - they don’t.
Photoshop CS2 Gone Wild
I paid $34.99 for this book- I wasn’t impressed with the imagery inside, but the concepts and techniques looked interesting. Boy was I disappointed! Ms. London teases the reader with good ideas, but then holds back critical elements from her lessons. A typical example - in the first chapter on metallics, there is a point where a curves adjustment is required - Ms. London, rather than telling us what settings to use to achieve the effect, instead tells us to use the preset file which is supplied on the CD Rom that accompanies the book. Unfortunately, no version of Photoshop (CS1, CS2, or CS3) on either Mac or PC will recognize the curve preset as a valid file. And since the author didn’t see fit to include the settings for the curve, the chapter on metallics and chromicity is worthless. I’ve found other such problems in the book as well. Perhaps Ms. London’s students benefit in classroom from demonstration and clarification, but the book as a stand-alone resource was a waste of time. Ms. London’s support website was totally useless as well - there are links that go nowhere, and a contact link that doesn’t supply an email contact address. Save your money and subscribe to one of the excellent British trade periodicals like "Advanced Photoshop" or "Digital Camera" - their tips are great, their images are top-notch, and they don’t leave out crucial steps in their lessons!

Techniques Only Really Work for their Photos on CD
They only talk about the examples in terms of the example photos they supplied. Sure, they can be adjusted to work for any photos, but their techniques don’t fit exact. And little things are annoying like they spend a page on how to remove a stem out of a cherry for a photo they supplied. It doesn’t apply to any other photo!

It has some good techniques, but they don’t work well with the photos I used. I luckily have some decent Photoshop knowledge and was able to make some work. Others, I was NOT able to make work.

This is useful if you only want to learn things using their photos. If you want to try to use your own photos, you will have a HARD time.

Definately not for someone without a fair amount of Photoshop experience. If you have a decent understanding, you might be able to use some of these ideas.

But overall, the book is wasteful. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t be more BROAD in your descriptions. Why not take into account the person buying this book might actually use their own photos?

Not for photographers
Very involved graphic techniques. Probably excellent effects for a graphic artist, but not much value for editing and tweaking photos. Certainly a waste of time and money for those of us just interested in photography.

Don’t bother
This book is nothing more than some very poor examples of how to make the most annoying pictures possible using filters in the most obnoxious way possible. Looking through the book, I saw MAYBE 1 thing I could use. If you are someone who just wants to make goofy pictures using nothing more than filters, you may get some use out of it, if you’re a graphic designer / professional, don’t waste your time or money.

What the $%#@!!!
I am about mid way through this book and I HAD to check Amazon.com to see what in hell other people must have said about this book. I saw what I expected to read. THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR BEGINNERS!! And.. I liked one comment that summed it up, THIS BOOK IS AWFUL!! I will also NEVER buy a $45 book from Borders on a whim.
The directions are VERY hard to follow, there are many typos, and here and there, parts of sentences are cut off right in mid-instruction.
Another big BOO BOO... on the disc that comes with the book, there is a password to get the zip files open. And instructions to GET the password from a file on the disk’s chapters that don’t exist. I looked for contact info to let them know I had a faulty disc.. I found nothing but London’s Website, which led no where except other Websites. I finally contacted Comstock and a VERY nice customer service agent informed me that the password is on the file named JupiterImages EULA.doc. Okay, fine..anyone can make a mistake, even a writer/publisher.. but I work on a Macintosh, as do most graphic designers, and this password is hidden in a Microsoft Doc that I could not open. I had to hunt down someone with a PC to get the .doc open to get the password. This was supposed to be Mac first tutorials!!
WAAAAYYY too much hassel for me having to pay that much money for the book.

The reason for the two stars? The book made me think. I HAD to think. Because the instructions cirtainly are not easily defined in this book. By forcing me to figure it out everything that was missing from instruction, I am learning to put two ends together by winging it and giving it my best shot. I got aggrivated to where I had to put it down and come back to it later.. but so far, I’ve figured out how to get these projects to work. I am also not a beginner in Photoshop.
So, take what you can from this, I hope it’s helpful.

CS2 Gone Wild ?
An awful book. As an amateur, my comfort level with Photoshop was enhanced by having used similar books. The formula? Follow the author’s step by step instructions to replicate a project. In doing so, learn how and why specific features are useful and how they create a desired result. In addition, I learned to use tools that previously had been unknown to me. This was not my experience with Gone Wild.

The first challenge was selecting a project to replicate. Ninety-five percent of the projects looked to me more like a caricature of a professional’s work (proof that creativity and quality are not always synonymous). Okay, so the projects are underwhelming. Perhaps the value would be found in the journey and not the destination? Sadly, I soon discovered this was not the case.

The instructions were often confusing and at times seemed contradictory. Rather than becoming more comfortable with the CS2 features being highlighted, I was becoming more frustrated. Again, I am admittedly an amateur. Maybe those more experienced with Photoshop would have been less frustrated. Which begs the question, why would they use this book?

Bottom line. My Photoshop creative genius was not freed (see cover). My desire to never again purchase a resource book on a whim was definitely freed. Knowing what I now know, I would have avoided this book even if it had been offered to me for free.

Horrible Book
Thank God I visited my local Borders and went to the publisher’s website before purchasing this book. The "wild effects" taught are nothing short of awful looking. Don’t just take my word for it, you can actually view the ToC with sample photos at the publisher’s website.

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0764598139.html

the best photoshop book out there!!!
I am a Graphic design student and this book has help me get a lot of free lance work and has helped me build up a nice porfolio before i graduate.

not for novice...
I am going through this book aftter Adobe’s Classroom in the book and Deke’s One-on-One. I think the workshop examples are a little too advanced for Photoshop beginner. I think this is the type of book you can learn more by going through 2 or 3 times after the first read.

Sorry, but why was this published?
Photoshop filters need used with a light touch... otherwise they become the Wednesday Nite Photoshop Ceramics Club from which your Aunt Tilda drags home toadstool after toadstool in her PT Cruiser. Everyone exclaims how nice they are! Of course they all understand the Pieta is real sculpture but, well, I couldn’t make those toadstools that nice, so they’re pretty darn good. This mediocrity would get embarrassed glances away in a scrapbooking workshop. There are better tutorials for free on the internet then these "gone wild" folk art. What happened to the NO stars?

Creative projects & inspirations
In "Photoshop CS2 Gone Wild," author Sherry London leads the reader step-by-step through a wealth of creative projects and amazing effects, with ample illustrations and plentiful sidebars offering additional useful tips and tricks. The Photoshopper who explores London’s projects will become conversant with more features and possibilities of the program than the casual user would even dream of. Best of all, her projects can readily serve as the inspiration for additional projects, and her instructions and techniques can easily be adapted for the reader’s own creative work.

Sherry London’s Gone Wild
This book exceeds my expectations in it’s creative projects. I have had the most fun working out the projects she has included in the book, and included CD, and applying her techniques to my own photographs. The instructions are so easy and I marvel at the results. She includes the steps as well as screen shots of the layers palette so that anyone at any level of expertise with Photoshop can follow along and actually create the wonderful projects. This is one book you don’t want to miss! I love it!

Photoshop CS2 Gone Wild
This is the second book in the Gone Wild series, the first being Illustrator CS2 Gone Wild.
The Photoshop CS2 Gone Wild is in full color, a step by step tutorial book designed for beginners to advance users.
The book gives beginners with basic graphic design skills the instructions step-by-step to creating great digital art.
The book allows you to choose any exercise at will, the exercises are non-destructive editing.
Tips and notes are found throughout the book.
Ten chapters packed with great creative effects.
A great book that includes the use of the new Photoshop SC2 tools.

The book comes with a CD with all the images you need to work with the various exercises. Also six (6) bonus exercises pdf files, plus the source images.
Provides a companion web site www.photoshopgonewild.com

I give this book five (5) out of five (5).
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Would have liked to give it ten stars!
What can I say? This is by far the best Photoshop book I have ever gotten and I own most of them being a Photoshopaholic. Sherry London writes in a way anyone can understand and work along. I couldn’t put the book down. Do yourself a favor and put "Photoshop CS2 Gone Wild" in your Christmas stocking and then sit down at your computer and have some fun. She thinks of things to do with Photoshop that most of us would never try on our own. The only word I can think of to describe this book is GREAT.
Ann Roberts