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Summary: To the point, fast and thorough
Review: Scott Kelby's book,The Photoshop for digital photographers, is one of the best computer books I have seen. It is clearly written, well organized and concise. It leaves out all of the technical jibberish and concentrates on what real functioning photographers want to know. Notice, I said photographer and not techie, geek or digital freak. As the author said, this book is for people who already know how to take pictures and manipulate using classical, wet darkroom technique. I say this as a 60 year old professional news photorapher, designer and teacher who cut his teeth on Canon F-1's, 4X5 view cameras and color separation flatbed graphics cameras, but only got into digital photography in June of this year. Most photographers I know have little time nor interest in crawling through poorly written and tedious volumes about how complex things work. The'd rather make pictures. When I got the book, I opened it randomly, read a section, went to my MAC and performed the tasks immediately. No learning curve, just good results. This is the book for Photoshop 7 users.
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Summary: Useful for entry level Photoshop processing only
Review: This book could be very useful for beginner amateur digital photographers not having enough experience with Photoshop. It is mainly focused on relatively simple photo corrections (cropping, color adjustments, removing blemishes, etc.), but doesn't address higher level artistic techniques. If you are using a digital camera for vacation or family pictures, this manual will let you make your photos look more natural, but if you are into serious digital photography and would like to learn those neat techniques that always aspired you, look elsewhere. For example, try the "The Photoshop 7 Wow! Book", or similar publications, which will give you in-depth coverage of those techniques.This book uses "step-by-step" approach, which is helpful for the beginners, but can get very irritating for those who have some experience already. Nevertheless, for what it is intended for, the book is quite good.
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Summary: Best Photoshop Book I own
Review: I've been using PHotoshop since 1992, and I certainly didn't find this book too basic. Most photoshop books I own all cover the tools, but never venture to give specific settings for certain tasks. Even though the book covers a lot of basic concepts, I still learned tons of shortcuts and tricks that I didn't know about. I love this book and have read it cover to cover, which I rarely do with a reference book!
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Summary: Great for Intermediate to Expert Photoshop Users
Review: I read a review that said this book is written for professional photographers and hi-end serious amateurs. While that may be true, I found all of the explanations in the book to be very simple and step-by-step, so that advanced beginners or intermediate users should be able to follow along easily. Author Scott Kelby, Photoshop User magazine editor, shows you the Photoshop pros' techniques for managing, correcting, retouching and outputting your photos to produce brilliant results. This book is great for traditional photographers who are making the jump to digital photography. Reading it should empower you to experiment with your photos. The full color book is packed with graphics and tutorials that will show you how to re-size your images with the proper resolution without losing image quality, deal with High ISO noise, blue channel noise, and other common digital camera problems. There's good info on color correcting photos for output on everything from inkjet printers to printing presses, and how to get perfect fleshtones. I love the "digital plastic surgery" and facial retouching techniques using Photoshop 7.0's new tools. Plus, some great exercises in masking, digital dodging and burning tricks, colorizing hair and replacing a portion of a pic (such as a sky).
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Summary: Best Photoshop Book Out There For Digital Photographers
Review: I've been using PhotoShop since about 1993 when the publisher I used dumped his darkroom to go digital. Since then, I've owned many Photoshop books. My favorites have been the WOW! Book series, because of the free styles and other goodies on the CD-ROM, and Real World Photoshop by Blatner and Fraser. Recently, I bought a new Canon EOS 10D, and I was looking for books to aid in color correcting and retouching photos shot with a digital SLR. I couldn't believe how easy "the Photoshop Book for Digitial Photographers" is to use. If you think the WOW! books are great, you'll really enjoy Kelby's book; his instructions are so simple and they produce such dramatic results. The book is also a good bargain for the money. The list price is ... which is much better than a ... book that's loaded with useless tutorials on effects that have no practical applications. Now, I only wish I could get a subscription to Photoshop User magazine, which Kelby edits, without having to join the NAPP. I think ... is too steep for 12 issues of a magazine. Guess I'll just have to wait for Kelby's next book!
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Summary: The Best PS Book for Digital Photographers
Review: The moment I leafed through this book I was impressed. I picked up several useful tips in the first few minutes perusing it. This never happens - usually I look through a PS book looking for things that I don't know already. Scott Kelby doesn't waste time telling you how to take a photograph, but rather gets to the meat and potatoes of digital post processing. This is great for me, as I need to make the most of my time and this book has helped me to do that. Also, I really enjoy Mr. Kelby's writing style, and am oh-so glad that he came out with this book - it's the best thing to come along for digital photographers like myself, who have a working knowledge of PS but need to squeeze as much as possible out of the program. My sincere thanks Mr. Kelby! :-) I love this book!
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Summary: Just What I Wanted.... and Got
Review: When I first opened the book, I quickly thumbed through the pages and found all sorts of neat information. I tried all of it. Then I was so impressed, I read it from cover to cover. I expected elemtary chapters, such as 'file management' to be old hat, but was I wrong. Every page had me saying "Wow, I didn't know you could do that", of "so that's how you do that". I teach photography at the University of Tennessee and recommend this book to every student. Thanks, Scott.
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Summary: An easy-to-use Photoshop reference document
Review: This is a great book for the serious amateur or dark room professional who wants to improve their photos without having to become a Photoshop Guru. This practical guide covers most of the corrections a photographer will need in an easy to understand, how-to style. If you are an art major or a graphic designer you may want a more in-depth book. For me, however, this is a perfect guide to simple yet effective corrections. One suggestion for future editions would be to give more explanations about the "technical why" some of these techniques work. My biggest criticism is that the author's "down-home humor" gets tiring after about 25 pages.
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Summary: Got Photos? Get this book!
Review: Don't pay attention to the nattering naybobs who say this is an "intro" level book. If you're above the need for this book, you'll know it. For all others, it's a "must buy". Very clear tutorials on how to do almost all of the basic photo editing you'll want to do as a beginning to intermediate hobbyist photographer. It will definitely give you a foundation to build on for Photoshop. After you master what you learn in this book, I'd recommend the Photoshop 7 Visual Quickstart Guide to move into greater depth.
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Summary: Perfect Gift
Review: This is a great gift for the digital photographer. It is a high quality classy book by one of the best authors on the subject, Scott Kelby. You can't go wrong with this because it has something for everyone. Well worth the price.
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