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, retouching and outputting your photos to knock your client’s socks off, and turn you into a Photoshop production wizard. This book is absolutely ideal for traditional photographers who are making the jump to digital photography, and Scott’s casual, step-by-step, plain-English style makes even the most complex Photoshop techniques seem so easy and accessible. It’s the type of book that makes you smile and think “Ahhhh, so that’s how they do it” and then immediately you realize “Hey, I can do this!”
The entire book is graphically rich, in full color cover-to-cover, and best of all it’s packed with real-world project-based tutorials that will take you through the process of sizing your images with the proper resolution (and the secret to doing so without losing image quality), how to deal with High ISO noise, blue channel noise, and other common plagues introduced by digital cameras; you’ll learn how the pros color correct their photos for output on everything from inkjet printers to printing presses, and the secrets to getting perfect fleshtones no matter where it¿s output. You’ll learn the sharpening techniques today’s top digital photographers use, and how the leading retoucher’s perform “digital plastic surgery” in Photoshop, plus professional facial retouching techniques using Photoshop 7.0’s amazing new tools.
Plus, you’ll also learn how to manage your photos, “digital dodging and burning” tricks, dealing with common problems, making client presentations within Photoshop and on the Web, and the inside tips on how to work faster and more efficiently than you ever thought possible. If you’re serious about digital photography and Photoshop, this is book you’ve been waiting for.
ASIN : B006OJ42PU
Publisher : New Riders
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : December 20, 2011
Edition : 1st
Language : English
File size : 157.1 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 820 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0132932479
Page Flip : Enabled
Part of series : Voices That Matter
Reading age : 18 years and up
Best Sellers Rank: #571 in Adobe Photoshop #2,081 in Photography Equipment (Books) #2,828 in Graphics & Multimedia Programming
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B. Bundy –
A Must-Have!
I have recently begun using Photoshop and at first just tried “feeling” my way through it. That didn’t work. Then I tried using articles I found in magazines and off the internet. That was a little better but still didn’t get me where I wanted to be. Then I decided to get a book to help me. On more than one photography forum this book was recommended. Now that I have it I see why.Apart from the excellent information, Scott Kelby is a very humorous, easy-to-read author. This book is so informative and easy to follow that my wife (who knows knothing about computers or digital processing software) has even begun reading it and using Photoshop.If you are thinking about getting this book…GET IT! I definitely wound recommend this book to anybody.
PHTOGRL –
LOVE this useful tome!
I am SO pleased with this book. Scott Kelby shows you step-by-step methods for really improving your digital photos using Photoshop. I’m very experienced with Photoshop, yet being self-taught, I probably missed out on a few things. This book really helps fill in the holes. I refer to it all the time for little hints and tricks.It’s especially useful for portrait photographers. It goes through lots of different adjustments and tweaks that really make your photos pop.I also like that it goes from soup to nuts. Everything from file management to displaying your shots on the web or to your clients. I do think you need a basic understanding of Photoshop, but this really does help expand your knowledge of the software as well as your overall photographic look.This is a keeper!
Gej –
The Photoshop Book – Scott Kelby
I believe this is Kelby’s first in the series, The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, first published in 2003.Kelby has now published six of these books. Unfortunately for his readers, he has to leave some information out of each subsequent edition. Should he just continue to add all of the new Photoshop examples and instructions, his CS5 book would be over 900 pages and be more than three inches thick. With that in mind, and having already purchased The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers, I chose to start at the beginning and I’m glad I did.Some of the information is dated. However, much of the information, especially for a first-timer, is relevant. His examples of ‘how to’ are easy to follow. The print is large enough so that you can work inside Photoshop while following Kelby’s instructions. Both MAC & PC instructions come in each lesson.I own at least 10 of Kelby’s publications. I find all of them have something to offer the beginning, intermediate and expert photographer. This book is very informative and I found it to be very useful.
Neil Z –
An easy-to-use Photoshop reference document
This is a great book for the serious amateur or dark room professional who wants to improve their photos without having to become a Photoshop Guru. This practical guide covers most of the corrections a photographer will need in an easy to understand, how-to style. If you are an art major or a graphic designer you may want a more in-depth book. For me, however, this is a perfect guide to simple yet effective corrections. One suggestion for future editions would be to give more explanations about the “technical why” some of these techniques work. My biggest criticism is that the author’s “down-home humor” gets tiring after about 25 pages.
Conrad J. Obregon –
You might get a helpful tip
Scott Kelby’s book is a recipe book for certain discrete problems that the Photoshop user may encounter, as well as some little known information about some aspects of Photoshop that you might not otherwise learn. If you find a recipe that fills a need that you have, the book will be a good investment. But if you are looking for an overall approach to using Photoshop this is not the book for you.Right from the first chapter, with his discussion of ways to use the Photoshop browser, you make pick up another way of dealing with a Photoshop function that you didn’t know about. On the other hand, some of the material will be old hat to an experienced Photoshop user.Some of the techniques, like color correction of digital images, will appeal to almost any Photoshop user. Those who have philosophical questions about what I call montage may not be interested in chapters on removing the wrinkles in an elderly person’s portrait or removing the love handles from a slightly overgrown physique. On the other hand, these certainly are bread and butter issues to some photographers.Kelby’s method of holding your attention is by making a number of breezy wise cracks as you go through the book. For example he says in the chapter on masking techniques “If I were elected President, one of my first priorities would be to sign an executive order requiring all registered voters to carry with them a white seamless role at all times” He then goes on to speculate how easy this would make Photoshop selection. That stylistic gadget may make you laugh the first time you encounter it, but after the 50th encounter you want to tell the author to take a break.The title of this book might lead you to believe that this book would start at the beginning of the photographic process, when an image is being captured in a digital camera. If the book didn’t intend to cover this, why say it’s for “digital photographers”? After all, every picture manipulated in Photoshop is digital – it has to be to get into Photoshop – but it could have come from a photo-cd or a scanner. But this book starts when the photo is already in the camera.I got very interested when I saw that there was a section of the book on Photoshop’s Camera RAW plug-in. But all Kelby gives you is a rehash of the information that Adobe provides you with the RAW software with a lower level of detail. You get no help on how to use that software to make a better picture.I occasionally think Kelby takes a more complex approach to a problem than one needs. His section on “Color Correcting Digital Images” advises setting the tonal highlight, shadow and midpoint with the curves function, but most users would probably find it easier to do this with the levels functionThere is no magic bullet that will help someone learn the fundamentals of Photoshop. The new user is best served by sitting down with a book of tutorials, either like those provided by Adobe or like Photoshop 7 Artistry by Barry Haynes, and working through the exercises. After that you can come back to this book and get a few tips in using the Photoshop functions that you know.
Wordlover –
The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers
I purchased this book because it had been recommended to me by a Graphic Artist. It is easy to follow and as I am only an amateur digital photographer and learning graphic design, I found this book fun to do the digital photographic tricks and touch-ups. Far less drab than the “teaching books”. Scott Kelby knows well what he writes about. Just a footnote: I ordered the later version of this book as well and it is equally good and with quite a few differences in content. I would recommend this book to those wishing to learn more about Photoshop.
Michael M. –
I have tried a wide range of Photoshop books, but this is by far the best for photographers. Entertainingly written, it focuses on the practical and leaves the theory to one side without treating you as a half-wit. It gives you results fast, puts you on the right track for further experiments and covers in one book what specialist magazines spread out over several years! Buy it – you won’t be disappointed.
S.HARI NARAYANAN –
Very old edition. Not much useful for this days. condition of the book is very good though it is a used one
Cici –
Good back on photoshop with great examples and processes on how to. Only thing I had to complain about was the smell of the book. You could ‘see’ that the person who sent me the book was a smoker because the book perfume was ‘smoke’. Besides that, great book that I will use for sure.
M-PHOTO –
I’ve many Scott Kelby books which I use as my bible for photoshop. As a more mature photographer, his books make easy reading and guide you through the minefield of technology. A great and essentual read.
jonesi –
Does exactly what it should when it should.