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Kai is the master of digital imagery!
This book was awesome, full-color photos, step-by-step. I recommend it to anyone who is serious about digital imagery. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Bks - Desktop Publishing    2. Computer Books And Software    3. Computer Graphics - General    4. Computer graphics    5. Desktop Publishing    6. Kai's power tools    7. Microcomputer Graphics    8. Computer Software Packages   

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Useless Book
This book is a shamelessly flattering puff piece for the Kai Krauss line of MetaCreations products.The products are good, but this book provided little assistance on how to use them.The enclosed CD-ROM has all kinds ofgoodies for the Mac, virtually none for the PC (other than a few videointerviews).There's a lot of pretty color images, but little help foranybody trying to duplicate them.It's a shame it's marketed as theofficial book because it comes off as nothing more than an extendedcommercial advertising Kai's product line.

Don't Waste Your Money!
This book is so useless! It shows you all the cool things you can do with these programs, but it doesn't teach you how. No wonder they called it "Studio Secrets." How they made these graphics were kept a secret.

This book is an advert for KPT and the developers!
I agree with all the reviewers on this site!Although full of glossy, full-colour illustrations, this book is little more than an advertisement for various products and the programmers who developed them.It tells you nothing about how to do things with the software, it merely flaunts the capabilities of the programs and shows off examples of images created by experts, without any guidance.There are plenty secrets in this book, unfortunately none of them are revealed so you can produce your own images.Having paid the full UK price for this book (twice as much as the US price), I think I should have bought a coffee-table book instead, as it's all pretty pictures and not practical info or tutorials ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: General    2. Computer Graphics - General    3. Computer graphics    4. Computers    5. Computers - Desktop Publishing    6. Desktop Publishing - General    7. Kai's power tools    8. Macintosh (Computer)    9. Microcomputer Graphics    10. Programming    11. Computer graphics software    12. Desktop publishing software    13. Utilities & tools   

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Take this book out of print
This program is so out of date that it won't run on any current machine. Take it off the list.

fast and easy to learn
Visual Quickstart is a great book teaching you about all the functions inKai's power in probably less than two hours. I finished this book in abreeze and it provided me with all the information needed to know Kai'spower tools which is complicated, but once finishing the book, you willhave a familiar understanding about KPT3. cheap way of learning thingsfast. The reason I have presented a 4 stars rating is that I haven't reviewother books and don't yet know if it is the best but it can certainly bethe best. Buy it. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

Kai's Power Tools, known as KPT for short, is a graphics package centered around a set of sophisticated and fabulous special-effects filters. It works with Adobe Photoshop, the image-editing software program, and with any other software package, such as Fractal Design Corp.'s Fractal Painter, that accepts such Photoshop-compatible plug-ins. (At press time, KPT's creator and developer, MetaTools, had finalized its merger with Fractal Design Corp., forming a new company called MetaCreations Corp.) Read more

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The best KPT Guide book on the market!!!
An excellent choice for unlocking the beautiful world of Kai Having purchased KPT3 and KPT5 for Windows to beef up the capabilities of CorelPhotoPaint8 (also new to me) I found myself floundering to understandthe user interface and minimal help documentation. Nick Clarkes book is anabsolute god-send - not only does he demonstrate the basics, he knocks youdead with the advanced capabilities and unleashes the "secret"controls within KPT3. So well is this explained that KPT5, though notspecifically covered in the book is just as easy to utilise fully. Excelent Guide to KPT
Today more and more Website designers are taking advantage of creative graphics design to enhance the appearance and functionality of their sites. A number of commercial graphics programs are available to them to createreal attention-getting graphics. Kai's Power Tools 3 (KPT) is a leadingcollection of filters and tools that can be used with many of them tocreate truly phenomenal graphic image results.Read more

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