The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers
Finally, a Photoshop book that is written expressly for professional photographers and hi-end serious amateurs that doesn’t talk about F-stops, exposures, and how to frame a shot (you know all that stuff already–if you don’t¿I hate to say it, but this isn’t for you). This new book, from Photoshop User magazine editor and bestselling author Scott Kelby, starts at the moment your digital camera photos come into Photoshop, and he shows you the Photoshop pros techniques for managing, correcting,
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June 28th, 2010 on 6:21 am
Review by Armen Jamkotchian for The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers
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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.
June 28th, 2010 on 7:12 am
Review by Stella Nemeth for The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers
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The Editorial Review begins: “Finally, a Photoshop book that is written expressly for professional photographers and hi-end serious amateurs that doesn’t talk about F-stops, exposures, and how to frame a shot (you know all that stuff already-if you don’t-I hate to say it, but this isn’t for you). “I don’t know any of that stuff about F-stops, exposures, etc., but this book absolutely IS for me. I’m not a professional photographer, but I am on my third digital camera.I’ve worked my way up, over the last 4 years, from beginner photo manipulation software, through Photoshop Elements to Photoshop itself. I use Photoshop because it does the things I need to do. What Scott Kelby’s book did was show me some of the less obvious ways to get things done. Some of the easier ones were amazing.This is an excellent book that is intended for anyone who has a copy of Photoshop and needs to get digital photos fixed. It is very accessable. You can open it anywhere and follow the steps in any chapter and successfully adjust your own photos using Scott Kelby’s instructions. He designed the book so each chapter is independent and none of them require that you read the chapters before it to understand what he is trying to accomplish. If you can follow along with the pictures, you can do what he is teaching. He believes in lots of screen shots and even though his screen shots show Macs and I’m using a PC, Photoshop is Photoshop and I can follow along. He gives both the PC and the Mac commands for every Keyboard shortcut he uses. This is great for me because I generally need to learn something that is buried in the middle of the book, and I don’t have the time or patience to read four or five chapters to understand how to get it done.I own several Photoshop books, and I’ve never seen some of the techniques he teaches in those other books. He also teaches some advanced general Photoshop techniques and he makes those easy to understand too.Worth every penny…
June 28th, 2010 on 8:11 am
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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 8×10 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.
June 28th, 2010 on 8:38 am
Review by Pat McKenna for The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers
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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!
June 28th, 2010 on 8:44 am
Review by FFSmith for The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers
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This is a very good book. In fact it is by far the best I have found to guide me in taking images from camera to use! Comprehensive, but easy to follow and read.
I am not a professional photographer, but I do take a lot of photographs. Some for fun, but many find their way into our company’s website, PowerPoint slides, and promotional material (engineering and industrial projects). I also use a lot of photographs for my wife’s travel business website and brochures. Mostly slides for years, but am now going “all digital.” They all need adjusting, cropping, sharpening, fixing so I find myself using Photoshop more and more.
I started using Photoshop 5.0 almost 6 years ago, about the time I purchased a scanner and started trying to master inserting images in documents for my work. I was no computer amateur, but what a struggle. I fumbled through at least two of the obscure “list everything and every option” manuals Kelby describes-with time consuming, mediocre results. Finally admitted defeat and enrolled in a Photoshop night course at university. Three years, Photoshop 7.1, Win2000, and many thousands of photographs later, I am still learning. I read through parts of this book at a local bookstore three weeks ago and quickly concluded that this was a book I had to have. Just got it today, and have actually read a third already!
Good, solid advice on using Photoshop’s browser was the first thing that caught my attention. I was using the limited “Zoom Browser” software that came with my new Canon digital camera and wasn’t even aware of the browser capabilities of Photoshop. Also appreciated the advice on sharpening settings, some of which I had already noted from the class I took on Photoshop. I had been investigating sharpening plug-ins for Photoshop, and Kelby’s examples are a good introduction to the different sharpening effects. Next will be colour curves and adjustments-which, despite appearances of my photos, I am still making a mess of!
The book is very well laid out. Use of colour and white space is nicely done. Easy to read and follow, and generously illustrated with colour photographs for every step. In fact, this is one of my criteria for an instructional book-if it’s not “easy on the eye” it will probably just sit on the shelf. Of course, eye candy can grow old quickly without content. Kelby covers the subject well in an informal and humorous style. His advice is right on, and to the point: I have photos, now I need to use them-even if it’s only to e-mail friends and family. He lays out how to do this.