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Summary: All the info that should be in the FCP manual
Review: As an Apple certified instructor, I've always been a bit embarassed at how little I know about Photoshop. I've always hacked my way through it, wishing I knew more but could never find any resource that would tell me just what I need to know. I'm not interested in printing 4-color seperations, I'm interested in Alpha channels, broadcast safe colors, and shortcuts that will save my clients money. Photoshop for Nonlinear Editors teaches me not only what I've always wanted to know in Photoshop, but also demonstrates all of the capabilities of Photoshop for video editors, and in a way that's simple and easy to comprehend... This book has been an invaluable resource. Highly recommended
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Summary: Keep this book by your desk.
Review: As an editor and 3D artist, I found this book to be an invaluable resource. The tutorials are straightforward enough for a novice to understand, yet useful enough even for an experienced Photoshop user. No matter how you make use of it, you _will_ use it.
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Summary: At last . . . a Photoshop book for us video geeks!!
Review: At last here's a book which focussess solely on the areas of Photoshop that are essential for producing great artwork for video and television.Richard includes tutorials based upon his fantastic live Photoshop demos which communicate complex tasks in an easy to understand, user-friendly way. He has a knack for making things simple to understand. What's also very important is that Richard uses the software in his own work as a designer for television so is aware of all the pitfalls that you are likely to trip over. He anticipates these well and guides you around them, giving you solutions and workarounds whenever you should require them. This book is a must for any designers wanting to cross over from other disciplines into designing for TV and video. It's also full of tips and tricks for the more seasoned Photoshop users out there. It's definitely one for your digital video book collection!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Bob O'Dell I like this book a lot. A great resource, in my opinion the DVD that comes with the book is worth the money alone. A great investment too my work is 100% better looking than before I read this book.
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Summary: The only Photoshop book for Video Professionals
Review: I already had a great deal of Photoshop experience when I picked this book up, but I was curious to see how the video angle was approached by the author. The book is definately good, and the DVD that includes video instruction and extra tutorials is great. Having read a great many other Photoshop books, I'd say this book did a decent job of covering the standard tools, but not a great job. That would be my only negative comment, and don't get me wrong, the book is very worthwhile. It's great to have a book focussed on preparing material for video. Methods of importing graphics into an NLE are covered quite well, and there's an appendix section that covers the best method for each NLE application.
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Summary: Simply demystifying.
Review: I found this book highly valuable. The way the author demystified the complexity of treating Photoshop files to successfully implement them in an NLE was just amazing. If you are a compositor using Adobe After Effects, Boris, Discreet Combustion... or an editor on Avid, FCP... I would highly recommend you to have this book on your desk as it contains a huge amount of highly sophisticated tips and tricks used by professionals that will make your life much easier.
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Summary: Master Editor Humbled
Review: I had occassion to discover this fine collection of wisdom during my stint as a lecturer at the Avid Master Editor's workshop in Miami, where Mr. Harrington also lectured. I aquired a copy of this book and I think it would have been a bargain at twice what I paid! This book is so chock full of good tips and brilliant strategies for setting up your Photoshop interface that I have already worn it to shreads as it gets borrowed back and forth between three edit suites. The profiles of other expert editors and graphic artists are inspiring and their full color examples offer interesting leads on how to create better titles and backgrounds.
Harrington's writing style is clear and easy to understand. I only wish the publisher would insert perforated cheater cards to paste to my keyboard, the book won't last the month. Buy one - maybe two!
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Summary: A One-of-its-kind Resource
Review: I teach non-linear editing and compositing for a living, and I don't have time to delve deeply into Photoshop during my classes (we're too busy using Avid, FCP, Premiere and After Effects). When students ask Photoshop questions, it's wonderful to be able to refer them to one book. "Photoshop for Nonlinear Editors" is definitive, to-the-point, easy-to-follow and fun. Richard Harrington is a born teacher. And he understands that different people learn in different ways. Since some people (many editors) learn visually, he provides video-based training on the DVD that comes with the book. Which, in my opinion, doubles the book's value.
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Summary: What a GREAT book!!
Review: I was hired as the 'AV specialist' for a high school. My background in video has been limited to making a few training videos for a former employer using FCP 1 and Vegas 3, as well as a software test engineer for an audio software company. My graphics background has almost exclusively been with Illustrator; my finest moment with Photoshop until recently has been adding the lens flare to everything I ever opened!! A friend of mine works for a professional film company; he recommended that I become more 'fluent' with Photoshop as I should be using it a lot more than for just making people look like ET with the warp filters...I didn't know where to start as there is SSSOOOOO much information on the internet on how to use PS to do just about everything. While reading the excellent book Motion Graphics with After Effects (my friend also suggested that I learn how to us it) I saw an ad in the back for this book Photoshop for Non Linear Editors. I purchased it and just cannot put it down!!! It's been a great resource on how to make all sorts of neat-looking backgrounds; It's done a fabulous job on telling reader's how to make intricate images from SCRATCH, which has been a lot of fun and makes PS feel like a creation tool rather than just an editing tool, a la Illustrator. Every night before going to bed I sit down and read through a chapter or two, several times over, to try to learn as much as possible. One of the biggest responsibilities at the school is making 'photo yearbooks' for the different clubs and teams. Before reading your book I was simply scanning the pictures at 72 dpi and placing them on the timeline in Premiere...the results were decent, but I really wanted to make the project stand out as we were burning to DVD and the clubs were charging the kids a small fee for the product. After reading your book, I had a much better understanding of how images appear on the computer and tv screens, and how PS could be used to get the best image possible for the project. Now I scan everything at 300 dpi and try to zoom in on the important part of the photo before running a crop action to resize the photo to the right size for video, the quality of these yearbooks has improved, in my opinion, exponentially! For some, this kind of stuff is old hat; but for the rest of us, it can be daunting trying to figure out screen sizes and resolutions and how to use different softwares to get the best possible image on the screen. This book did a great job of explaining the hows and whys of getting stuff from the computer onto the television the way it's supposed to be done, and how to use Photoshop and your editing program CREATIVELY to make the biggest impression on your clients, be they a big company or a couple of kids. While some books are simply extensions of the online help, Photoshop for Non Linear Editors is an investment for anyone wanting to make their video productions that much better!
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Summary: Written well and loaded w/ great tips
Review: I've been a nonlinear editor for almost 10 years, and into Photoshop for just about as long. But until now, you had to pick up Photoshop NTSC tips and tricks the hard way... trial and error. This book is a must for nonlinear editors that are now treading into the deep waters of Photoshop. It's written for them and focuses only on those Photoshop techniques that effect nonlinear editing. A great idea to go at Photoshop from this angle. Highly recommeded!
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