Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Voices) | List Price: $49.99
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Binding: Paperback
Excellent PhotoShop Tutorial [Posted on 2008-10-05]
This book is a useful addition to the digital photographer's library. Its focus is helping the reader make sense of PhotoShop's vast capabilities to solve photographic post-production dilemas. The examples used by the tutorial chapters are included in a CD-ROM so that the reader can follow along with the illustrated commentary.
While the book very effectively covers the territory it sets out to explore, I think there is at least one other area of photographic post-production that can be and should be usefully explored: composition. In fact, I think there is an "eighth point" that should be added to the System for more completeness. Specifically, there are things the photographer can do with the transformative features of PhotoShop that can have substantial benefit for more complete image optimumization. Have a look at Edit->Transform options. These offer a great deal of scope for improving a photograph beyond just light and color balance.
Very Novel and Helpful approach to PhotoShop [Posted on 2008-10-06]
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is by far one of the best books on how to use Adobe PhotoShop CS3. I really learned a lot on lightroom techniques with PhotoShop. As an instructor for a local Community College in Adobe PhotoShop, I intend to use this book in the class. This is not a beginning book, but one for the advanced PhotoShop user, very informative.
7 point system [Posted on 2008-10-15]
This book helps you in establishing an effective workflow by reinforcing a good working 'order'.
Some of the techniques used within the steps are a matter of choice and, in my opinion, not always the most effective, but the theory of which step first, second etc is spot on.
Starting with Camera Raw each and every time, and using it multiple times in reworking an image is bang on.
Would recommend this for anyone wishing to nail down good working habits.
Well worth the money.
Mindless, but useful [Posted on 2008-10-16]
If you're the type of person who just wants someone to tell you what steps to follow to achieve a certain effect, and who doesn't want to learn the underlying reasons for anything, this book is for you. If you are entertained by lame humor accompanying your cookie-cutter instructions, this book is also for you. If you really want to learn Photoshop thoroughly so you can handle any situation that pops up in a creative way, you'll have to turn elsewhere. Ironically, reading a lot of Scott's books, as well as books by others, especially Dan Margulis, may be the best course for you.
But you can't dispute that Scott Kelby is the best self-promoter digital imaging has ever seen, and he really knows how to take a little information and stretch it out to book length in a style that will please hundreds of thousands of readers. As I said in my title, many of Scott's books are a little mindless, but for those who like their information spoon-fed, the approach has proved to be very useful. For that audience, I give this book three stars.
More ambitious readers should check out something like Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-On-One
useful approach but should be taken with a grain of salt [Posted on 2008-11-29]
This is a quite useful book if you use it to expand your knowledge of Photoshop and not try to apply it to your photographic endeavors. Kelby tends to commingle his approach to photography with his knowledge of Photoshop to "fix" images which may not need to be fixed but simply discarded. But that is easy to ignore and focus on the insights Kelby provides on making positive adjustments to images, though one really needs to work in the 16-bit world to get the most benefit and avoid the distortions that result from excessive interpolation by the software when the digital gaps are too great. I agree with his general approach of developing a work flow that is efficient and can be applied readily to most images instead of showing as do many Photoshop how to books, the implementation of special effects that have very limited use for the majority of pictures one is likely to create.
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