A step-by-step handbook takes readers through the fundamental principles and techniques of the digital photography editing process using Adobe Photoshop CS4, covering everything from color correction and digital body-sculpting to organization and output.
ASIN : 0321580095
Publisher : New Riders Pub
Publication date : January 1, 2009
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 461 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780321580092
ISBN-13 : 978-0321580092
Item Weight : 2.95 pounds
Dimensions : 8.25 x 1.25 x 10.25 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #625,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #51 in Adobe Photoshop #72 in Computer Graphics #77 in Photography (Books)
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L. Greenbaum –
The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book, Kelby
Scott Kelby is true to his form with his CS4 book as he was in my first experience with the CS2 book. Kelby is a teacher, and the beauty of his presentation is that it is a recipe style how to approach directed at helping photographers use CS4 for specific tasks. To the benefit of his readers/users, Kelby explains exactly what to do in the exact sequence to set up CS4; understand Bridge and image storage; edit pictures; and solve common image problems. He makes using Camera Raw; and the application’s many tools and adjustment layers easy and meaningful. He takes one of the most complex software programs and teaches it from the angle of simplicity and practicality, presenting it with a fun approach. The book is successful because it’s not a manual. It is successful because Kelby writes to everyday photographers, not to the application. Other CS4 books in this hefty price range are merely manuals that best serve as a tomes to be large paper weights. Scott Kelby makes learning CS4 fun as he shortens the learning curve. My one complaint is that the book’s suggested retail price of $54.99 is a bit over the top – even at discount, this is expensive.
Charles E. Pike –
I really needed this.
I have an older issue of this book for an earlier copy of CS. When I upgraded to CS4, I could no longer get good prints from my printer. I knew that I had to have something set wrong in the printer portion of the program, but didn’t know what. I turned to that part of the book explaining how to set photoshop up for printing. First print out was just what I had wanted. If I didn’t get anything else out of this book, that one thing was worth the whole price. Thing is there is a lot more to learn and the book explains it all very well. If you have never read any of Scott Kelby’s books, you might not know how good a teacher he is. He is able to explain it all very well. Get the book and as newer issues of CS are issued make sure that you pick up the updates. I keep this next to my computer at all times, and refer to it often.
ad –
Bridge and ACR techniques that work, but lack of background information
Updated reviewThis book is an excellent intro to Bridge and ACR, but leaves a big amount of Photoshop tools untouched. This book is not a Photoshop class. It is a detailed step-by-step guide for photography postproduction techniques based on Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw, and Photoshop. If you want to learn everything about Photoshop, this is the wrong book. If you want to tweak your RAW files all day, you will learn hundreds of awesome tricks here.Everything I tried from this book works very well. Unfortunately, I don’t know why it works and how it works, because the author does not give a lot of information about the way the tools work, he is using.So after working thorugh this, you won’t be the Photoshop expert who understands all tools and knows why one slider works better than another one. But you will be the guy who knows all the tricks to get your pictures look better.
James R. Kaspar –
Scott Kelby Rocks
The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)Initially I purchased Kelby’s The Photoshop CS Book in 2003. It was so well written and easy to learn all of Photoshop features that were explained that when I recently purchased the CS4 software, I immediately also purchased Kelby’s book. I find his examples and evaluations of various features very helpful and I also happen to appreciate his sense of humor in the chapter introductions. I look forward to reading them as I move through the book. Since Photoshop is somewhat counterintuitive, having a resource such as Kelby is invaluable.
mhnstr –
So much more could have been in this book.
When I bought Photoshop CS2, I wasted a lot of effort with my photos until I bought Kelby’s book. Not only did the book describe how to use some of the features in Photoshop that I used every day, but he also taught tricks such as adding twinkles to eyes. When I bought Lightroom, again it was Kelby who taught me how to use the program. In fact, I told all of my friends who used Photoshop that they needed Kelby’s books. So when I upgraded to Photoshop CS4, I of course bought Kelby’s book. And this time I was disappointed.True to form, Kelby presents to the reader step by step instructions for some of the functions you may want to use in Photoshop CS4. Working with color, black and white and dodging and burning are all included in the book. But, as someone who already knew the basics of CS2, the CS4 book doesn’t offer a lot of new information. And as someone who uses Lightroom instead of Bridge, I found the two chapters on Bridge to be interesting, but not so useful. The chapters on HDR images are interesting academically, but then Kelby recommends not using Photoshop for these images. The chapters about printing and showing your work are nice, but I bought the book to learn how to use Photoshop CS4 to improve my photos. These other topics would be better in another book so that Kelby could concentrate on teaching tips and tricks.Missing from the CS4 book are all of the great tips that were in the CS2 book. I find that I actually use the CS2 book a lot when working in CS4 are rarely look at Kelby’s Photoshop CS4 book. Also missing is more information about adjustment layers. Maybe I missed something by skipping his CS3 book, but to me, adjustment layers are the most exciting part about Photoshop CS4 and Kelby only devotes a few pages to them.I actually wish that I had saved my money and used it instead for training on Lynda.com or the Lynda CS’s (Chris Orwig is very good) Photoshop CS4 for Photographers. By using the Lynda training, my skills in Photoshop CS4 improved dramatically. Because of the Lynda training, I can use curves and other adjustment layers without reservation. I would recommend Lynda instead or in addition to this book.In Summary, with the chapters on importing photos from your camera, cropping and printing, this book would be very good for someone who is new to Photoshop and needs to know the basics. However, more advanced uses who are familiar with Photoshop might be better served with a different instructional guide (book or DVD). If you already own Kelby’s Photoshop CS2 book, you really dont need to buy this one as well.
RobyAng –
Chiaro ed esauriente. Una guida passo-passo che si può leggere anche parzialmente, essendo strutturata per capitoli completi.Da consigliare anche a un principiante.
Mr. M. Yahya –
I’d recently went on a photography course at Central St. Martins and it was great at teaching me the photo taking aspect of photography. Unfortunately there was less time to build our knowledge on the other side of photography, the photo retouching. So they recommended the Scott Kelby books to fill in the gaps.Though this book was meant for Photoshop CS 4, you could really just follow the fundimentals taught in the book with earlier versions of Photoshop or even Photoshop elements.It’s clear, well presented and great value being cheaper than a lot of the other guide books. You really get a sense that you’re doing things right when you follow the steps these books recommend.
Mim D –
I always knew as an amateur that I had just scratched the surface of Photoshop. I use it for my jewelry business and my love of capturing my environment and life’s moments.I already learned so much from the book and I’m only half-way through it.I had so many questions about all the various options and features, and sometime I would dare try something, it would result in turning the image in black areas! After reading some chapters, I now know it was just a very useful feature of Photoshop that I can use to my advantage, but since I did not know what I was doing, I stopped exploring.But I never lost my curiosity or need to know how everything worked. I’d browsed through books in stores and came across this one, loved the humor and the step-by-step, I chose this book to order.I’m having so much fun, plus, it changed how I take photos knowing what can be done and how! It is very liberating.I’m not saying that you’ll know every thing all at once, I’m saying you will know of the ‘potentials’, know where to look to learn more, and you won’t be afraid to explore them with this book.Have fun!Mireille
Bedde –
ja, wieder mal ein Spitzenbuch von Kelby. Etwas nervig ist das Kapitel über Brigde… Hey es ist nur ein Bildbetrachter, darüber muß man nicht seitenweise philosophieren 🙂 Dennoch gibt es von mir die volle Punktzahl.Ach ja, wer schon die CS3 Version hat, braucht die aktuelle Ausgabe nicht unbedingt… sooooooooo viel neues steht dann auch nicht drin. Die 3D Funktionen wurden z.B. komplett unter den Tisch gekehrt.
Chris M –
Les livres de Scott Kelby sont très faciles d’accès, ce qui en fait de bons ouvrages. Celui-ci n’échappe pas à la règle. Les principales fonctions de retouche photo sont traitées avec des exemples faciles et concrets.Je le recommande à tous ceux qui n’ont pas envie de passer leur temps à lire un pavé pour avoir accès à Photoshop.