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Summary: Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers
Review: If you are completely familiar with other Photoshop versions and are a professional photographer this book could possibly be of some use. For an amateur photographer just getting into digital photography this book is not for you. There is a lot of fluff and not much body to the book which makes it hard reading. The CD Tutorial is a joke. The dialog speeds along with a small black cursor that can not be located most of the time making it almost impossible to follow..
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Summary: Great book for anyone using photoshop
Review: Im a novice with photoshop but this book is a "keeper". Ive purchased and quickly sold most of the "How to" books on photoshop. Some had too little information, some had too much information, and some were loaded with confusing information . This book has a great balance of "how to" and "why" for all levels of photoshop users. I like it.
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Summary: Excellent Photoshop book
Review: It's the best book I've found so far dealing with the unwieldly subject of PhotoShop. He covers a lot of bases and demystifies topics like alpha channels; subjects that never seem to be quite clearly explained in the other books. My only complaint is that some of the instructions seem a little vague in one or two of the examples. That said, I emailed Martin directly for clarification and he replied with an answer within 12 hours. I think that it would be very useful for non-photographers as well.
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Summary: A Book About WHAT?
Review: Let's first disclose the author's pretense as digital imagery being for photographers. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am 'picking' on Evening's book because it is good. It does 'sell' the idea that any grandma can add a little cheek blush to the grand-kids and think of herself as a photographer. What Evening does not do is say, in very plain language, the digital, programmed, and limited features of Photoshop 7.0 (considering all available plug-ins, does not add up to photography. Evening is also caught between those who would invest in a high end software program and their ability to use it as a CGI generator; as a 'quick and easy' means of becoming a 'photograper.' In other words, if one is so stupid to buy PS 7.0, then why would one be doubly stupid in buying this book because Adobe makes the software so simple to use a monkey can create an image? The answer is as clear as our opposing thumbs: PS 7.0 comes with a manual a high school drop-out who hangs out on sexually-oriented websites and chatrooms can understand, and, Adobe is very good with customer support. This leaves the consumer with options. One can buy this book and read it. While the consumer reads this book they aren't making pictures. If one has PS 7.0 just use the program and teach yourself. This book is of absolutely no help to a cave dweller who magically wants to become a 'photographer' via PS 7.0. Evening's work is really condescending to Adobe users since the Adobe website (for FREE) answers all the issues contained in this volume. This volume is overly verbose to be helpful as a cheat sheet and quick fix for those without creativity and a willingness to work through the PS program. It just might be, for many, the best way to make a photograph is to avoid PS, this book, and just buy a camera and use it. Readers read and photographers photograph. Evening misses the point and has probably done nothing more than familiarize himself, through this tedious, boring, volume with PS7. He's not telling any of use who have used this program and it's support anything new. The only thing 'photographic' about computer generated images is the micro litho means by which the motherboard and circuitry of the processor is manufactured. Evening is perpetrating a fraud not of his making.
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Summary: Awsome Book
Review: Mr. Evening does a great job of getting you into the digital world. The beginning of the book explains the color spaces and what this means in terms of what you see on your screen and what comes out on print. He then goes into Photoshop itself and teaches you everything you need to know to masterfully play with your images.
A great, great buy!
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Summary: absolutely brilliant
Review: No, this book isn't quite for beginners - I wouldn't use it as a photoshop primer. However, I am also not a professional photographer or photoshopper - and I have gotten so much from this book. Within 5 minutes of picking up this book I had taken a color digital photograph and made it look like it was shot on black and white infrared film. It took me a similar amount of time to make color images look like I had used an alternative process to develop the film. The steps for just about anything you'd want to do creatively are short, easy to follow, and are accompanied by excellent demonstration photos. The book is in full color, which is extremely important given the subject matter. I highly recommend this book to anybody who wants to take digital photographs and do artistic and wonderful things with them.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This is a very good book for any photographer who is interested in digital photography. Many photographers are now switching to digital with even hardened film users scanning in slides for archiving, re-touching or just being creative. The book focuses on photoshop from a photographers point of view rather than from a graphic designers. There are many tips for beginners and advanced users alike.
Highly recommended for all photographers wanting to learn photoshop
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This is a very good book for any photographer who is interested in digital photography. Many photographers are now switching to digital with even hardened film users scanning in slides for archiving, re-touching or just being creative. The book focuses on photoshop from a photographers point of view rather than from a graphic designers. There are many tips for beginners and advanced users alike.
Highly recommended for all photographers wanting to learn photoshop
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Summary: Great production values; extremely practical advice
Review: This is not a large book for the price, but the production values are excellent. All illustrations are in color and at high resolution, so you can actually see even the most subtle effects of image manipulation. This is not a beginner's book, and it is not for those who wish to use Photoshop principally for painting or drawing. Rather, it is just what the title says--"for photographers." If you already know the basics of Photoshop and the elements of photography, I think you will find this is the most valuable Photoshop book in print today. The book is divided into short (2 to 4-page) sections, each dealing with a common photographic problem (too dark, too much highlight, eyebrows too thin, waist too thick, facial blemishes and wrinkles, red eye, yellow teeth, color casts--you name it) and step-by-step remedies for each, including specific numerical values to plug into dialog boxes for filters. The book is useful for all sorts of photography, but I have found it most useful for pictures of people. The author apparently has extensive experience in fashion photography; his techniques are especially strong in the area of making people look better than in real life without producing any perception of artificiality.
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