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Summary: Great book, even for Fireworks
Review: Even though I am a Macromedia Fireworks user (instead of Photoshop), I like this book a lot. I have always had an interest in digital photography and this book showed me how to enhance my photographs to make them look professional. This book skips all the basics such as how to take a picture or how to use Photoshop. Instead it assumes knowledge of Photoshop and is filled with tips and techniques straight from industry professionals. If you take and edit lots of photos, this is definitely a book you will want to keep around for reference.In my case, I use Fireworks to edit my photos, and apply the techniques that were shown in this book. In a few cases, there were techniques that couldn't be duplicated in Fireworks, so Photoshop users will get more program specific tips.
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Summary: Outstanding - one of the best
Review: This isn't a Photoshop tutorial book but rather it's a great book that covers a lot of stuff not seen in the other books. To learn the photoshop basics go get the Classroom in a book series by Adobe. After you know the basics this book then adds considerably. It also works well as a reference because, as the author notes, you can jump in anywhere and learn a technique about some aspect of the program. I highly recommend this book but not till AFTER you learn Photoshop elsewhere.
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Summary: You won't regret to buy this book!!
Review: I bought this book out of my curiousity. I'm not a professional photographer or graphic designer or anything. Just a regular guy who took pictures occasionally. So may be you can tell that I would run into a lot of problems like most amatures do such as under exposure, over exposure, crooked pictures, too close to the object, too far from the object, etc. Therefore, a photo editing software is an essential for me since 60% of the pictures I took weren't good enough and always need touch up. However, most of the functions to fixed my problem can be found in any photo editing software but I was lucky enough to get my hands on the Photoshop 7.0, which is the best in the market right now even though they are much more expensive than the competitors. One thing though, I only know the basic functions of this program but I also know that it has much more capabilities than that. So, one day I just designed to learn more about it and I looked around for a photoshop books without any satisfaction. 90% of the books out there tried so hard to explain basic principle of photographing. Frankly, if I can shoot a photo like a professional, why would I even bother trying to learn about photoshop? A lot of those books also talked about the tools and functions, etc. and I thought I might as well get those instruction from help files in the program instead of paying them 50 bucks for the same explaination. My point was to find a book where it will give me some idea about how to create something new with the programs but most of those books failed to offer that. I even found some magazines that talked about creativity more than the books. Finally, I found this book by Scott Kelby and the first minutes I turned the page, I told myself, I had to have this book. The writer explained it so clear how to do things and put all these tools to work together and create something I've never imagine before. Now I did a lot of stuffs that just simply blown people away everytime they saw my works!! A lot of graphic in this book really help too. The only thing is that you have to play with the program quite a bit if you're using PC because the writer seems to get used to Apple computers and some of the step he never mention in his book so it might throw you off if you try to follow him word by word. Still, almost the whole book carry a very valuable information about Photoshop and I gaurantee you'll love it when you follow the instruction in this book and create something yourself. Just buy it, you won't be disappointed!!
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Summary: The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers
Review: Like his other books, Scott Kelby did an excellent job on this one. I have at least 6 other Photoshop 7 Books, but this one is my best investment yet. It complements the training tutorial from software cinema ... very nicely. Not too long ago, I didn't even know where to start with this program, now it has become my favorite tool for photo editing. The step-by-step in this book is very intuitive. However, I wish Mr. Kelby would include all the images in his book on his download site. It would make it a lot easier to go through the tutorial. This is a definite keeper!
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Summary: I'm Speechless
Review: It's...I...huh...how...on page...immediately...huh. It's just a perfect thing. For me, open to a page, any page, and I'm easily learning to do something that I previously couldn't figure out or was doing in a way that was unnecessarily complicated. If you're new to Photoshop, if you're comfortable with Photoshop but never took a class, and if you're enjoying digital photography, this is the only assist you'll need.
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Summary: The best computer book I've ever read!
Review: This is the only review I've ever done. I had to because I'd like every beginning photoshop user to know that Scott Kelby's book is without reservation the best book you will find about using Photoshop. It is clear, written in plain english, has specific instructions with excellent pictures to show you what to do, and is organized intuitively. If you want a book that will show you "how to do" something, and give you an overview of what Photoshop is capable of, this is the very best book you can buy. Thank you, Scott!
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Summary: I could do without the jokes
Review: I just bought this book and, so far, I have learned a lot. But Kelby's jokey style annoys the hell out of me. I want step-by-step instructions, which this book ably provides, but the so-called humour drives me crazy. It is totally unnecessary. Example: (removing red-eye) "Zoom in close on one of the eyes using the zoom tool. . . Note: You might not want to do this late at night if you're home alone, because seeing a huge scary eye on your screen can really give you the willies." It's full of stuff like this. Had I known before buying it I'd have looked for an equally useful book without this.
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Summary: Excellent book -- just buy it!
Review: Mr. Kelby did a great job with this book. I have several books on Photoshop, three supposedly specific to photos. This one will likely be the one to which I keep referring due to the excellent organization. Other books present similar information, and this is not the only good book, but it has one outstanding quality: it is well organized by topic, and you can find stuff again in a snap. Some books that have a lot of good information are not organized, so you have a hard time finding stuff again. That is very important to me because I generally only remember how to do the stuff I do all the time, and often need to find specifics on particular techniques again. Some people don't like the cutesy stuff, and Mr. Kelby does open each subject with a little attempt at humor, but he keeps it brief, and the text in the procedures is all down to business. His experience and talent as an editor shows -- very little excess verbiage, yet very few gaps in the essentials. I bought this book after becoming very familiar with Photoshop, but I don't think you would have to be to make good use of this book. Mr. Kelby is careful to include basic PS user interface information along with the digiphoto procedures. There are often many ways to do a task in Photoshop, and Mr. Kelby is good about presenting multiple equivalent approaches. He also continually mentions keyboard shortcuts, which helps a lot with efficiency, and is very useful in a book because digging them out of the Adobe documentation is not so easy. I highly recommend this book for people who want to learn to use the tools in PS to work on digital photos. You don't have to be a pro or be using a digital SLR -- there is a ton of good information in there to help you get the most out of snapshots from a little point-and-shoot. Once you get PS installed and a very basic understanding of it, and have a decent photo printer, this book could quickly get you making much nicer photos. I rate it a 5 of 5 stars, and I don't generally do that.
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Summary: Best Photoshop Book so far for experienced photographers
Review: Like many others here I've probably got just about all of the Photoshop and photography books - this is without a doubt one of the clearest and most useful books that I've come across. I picked up a handful of new techniques and information the first time I opened the book. It's not a Photoshop 101 book - there are others here that are better for that stuff, but it target digital darkroom use of Photoshop 7 and covers this well.
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Summary: Scott gets DOWN & DIRTY behind the lens!
Review: If you own a digital camera you NEED this book. I don't care what level you are at. But I have to make something clear. Make no mistake, this is first and foremost a PHOTOSHOP book. If you have a digital camera but you do not have PhotoShop, this book is not for you. But if you do have PhotoShop, especially PS 7, this book is INDISPENSABLE. Look, I can go on and on here about how great this book is, but why bother? If you own Photoshop you MUST know who Scott Kelby is. There really is nothing more to say. Either you get up every day and thank god for him every time you use PhotoShop or you don't. IF you do, this is his BEST book, enough said. Order it, and get very excited when it arrives. If he is not for you, you probably haven't even read this far. And I did put this book to the test. I took three of what I consider to be my best 8x10 digital pics (taken with my Minolta DImage 7) and re-worked them according to Scott's instructions. Although I was on the ledge as to if the re-worked images were better than my original images (I'm sure there was some ego on my part involved) I put the three images side by side with the reworked ones and showed them to 4 of my clients. And although the differences were mainly in the working of the midrange areas only, all 4 of my clients picked the re-worked images. Thanks, Scott. Everytime I pick up one of your books, you make me better at what I do. You gotta love this guy.
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