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Summary: Fantastic if you do NOT own the previous edition
Review: If you have the previous edition of this book, then this new edition will probably not be worth your money for the upgrade: many of the tips have been taken verbatim from the first Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers. But if you have neither the old nor the new edition of this masterpiece by Scott Kelby, then rest assured that some of the included ideas are worth the price of the book itself. I wish I had known about these shortcuts to photo enhancement a long time ago. I find this collection of easy yet powerful tips to be even more useful than Photoshop 7 or CS Down & Dirty Tricks (two other Kelby books I own and like). Work smart, not hard with The Photoshop CS Book for Digital Photographers.I gave this book only 4 stars instead of 5 because I feel that more new material should have been included instead of using so many techniques from the previous edition of this publication.
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Summary: My most used PS book
Review: If you need to run your photo business instead of becoming an in-depth photoshop expert this is the book for you. It has effective solutions to many common problems we all have with our digital originals. It tells you in a step by step process that is easy to follow. This is more of a fix-it book than a text to give you an in-depth knowledge of Photoshop, but would be a valuable addition to any digital photographers bookshelf.
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Summary: My Portrait Bible
Review: It is amazing what you can do with Photoshop and this book, and sooooo easily!!! I was able to take a digital head and shoulders photo of a woman and soften the completion, reduce the size of the nose, brighten the eyes, whiten the teeth, remove the background and replace it with a portrait studio type back drop, fix the hair and all within minutes. I am not expert by any means, but I was able to produce and expert looking portrait. I'm amazed with myself! Thanks Scott, this book is wonderful!
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Summary: Absolutely top-notch
Review: Kelby gets the word out on all sorts of things dear to the hearts of photographers in a one, two three style. No beating around the bush. Just the facts, maam.
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Summary: Instant enlightenment within...
Review: Luckily for us all, Scott Kelby is a happy, brilliant madman who is on a crusade
to enlighten The world about Photoshop. This concise, visually appealing,
"by the numbers," complete and easy to follow and utilise guide to
Photoshop CS' aspects on digital photography is the best book on the subject, on the market today.
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Summary: disappointed
Review: Not the best Photoshop CS book for dig photographers. It is weak in style and content. It had very little CS specific coverage. It was mac centric.
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Summary: Worthwhile complement to basic library; but no work-along CD
Review: Once you are a bit comfortable with Photoshop, this tutorial adds a lot of neat, well-illustrated and descriptive tricks (without explaining the why). Probably offers the best resource on Photo Browser essentials (sure liked the contact sheet to fit an archival CD jewel box). And the section on non-destructive dodging and burning with adjustment layer mask, alone, is well worth the admission price; with the pot sweetened by sound approaches to color management and correction. Production is of high quality, and color figures accompany each step.
Yet the content doesn't get the 5 star rating it should, for lack of an accompanying CD with gallery of before-and-after images so you may follow the illustrations in the text step-by-step and find out where you went off-track. The website images not only needlessly take time to download, but are so highly compressed as to limit their utility in color correction; worse, most are marred by an intrusive and unsightly 'BrandX' water mark - a thoughtless timewaster that detracts from the intrinsic learning value.
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: Perhaps the best Photoshop book for digital photographers on the market. If you are looking for a book that goes into the technical science of color management or delves in the algorithms behind curves and levels then this isn't it. What it is is a collection of (brilliant) how to's for digital photo management and correction - what to do when your fill flash was too bright, How to recover an underexposed image. How to turn a snapshot into a poster sized print with mininal loss of detail. The absolute best ways to get maximum sharpness without experiencing color halos and image degradation. How to prepare flesh tones for a CMYK press. Matching color and tone throughout a series of images. Etc. You can even download the example images in the book, try the techniques out and compare your results to Scott's. If you are a digital photographer who would rather spend more time in the field shooting and less at a computer endlessly tweaking curves and levels and you are looking for a book of down and dirty tips, tricks and how to secrets of the pros then this is it. Way to go, Scott!
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Summary: A Good Book for Beginers
Review: Recently I read four of the books currently available for Photoshop CS . This book was one of them and it was the weakest in terms of both the style of writing and content.\\ The author points out that he wrote the book "because not one other book he reviewed covered digital noise". I do have to give him some credit here because digital noise is not addressed in most of the other books. The problem is this is the only issue that I found to be unique to this book. Overall, I guess in an attempt to lighten up the subject you are subjected to endless silly little joking followed by very simplistic techniques for handling various digital imaging problems. This book my actually be fine for a beginner or someone that does not want to really understand the subject. For me it was a dissapointment.
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Summary: An extremely valuable introductory book.
Review: Scott Kelby has written a great book for digital photographers employing a "cookbook" rather than the more intimidating comprehemsive "users manual" approach to this intimidating program. This book will get you using the most useful features of this program quickly and effortlessly. You need to understand however that this is not intended as, nor is it a comprehensive users manual. Kelby employs a simpler approach. By enabling the reader to delve quickly into the most useful features of the program he can then explore the more daunting aspects of the program at his leisure. I've found that this approach to learning nearly anything works best for me. To concentrate exclusively on the mundane details of any subject to the exclusion of the more interesting practical aspects nearly always leads to boredom. Kelby has avoided this pitfall. I've read other Photoshop books and none of them have been as useful or practical as this one. Photoshop is chock full of features tailored to the needs of the digital photographer and Scott Kelby has gone far towards making these accessible even to the neophyte.
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