The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers
Product Description
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 techni… More >>
The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers
If you are a PhotoShop expert AND a very experienced digital photographer, then you may find this book marginally helpful. It’s essentially a cookbook that contains a series of discrete “lessons” that teach “tips” that might (??) be helpful to expert photographers who want to get a few more horsepower from PhotoShop. My doubt about even this potential value arises from the fact that a PhotoShop expert…think about it (an EXPERT)…may not need this help. For the rest of us, this book is a bad choice. Rather than introducing material in a sequential fashion that allows any reader to “climb the hill” to increased knowledge, this author jumps from one topic to another without a moment’s regard for whether the reader has been previously introduced to the skills that are needed for the new project. For the reader, this is like taking a hike and discovering that you’re confronted by a 500 foot cliff after you’ve gone 30 yards down the trail. In other respects, too, this is just a bad book, plain and simple. Its index is attrocious…a disqualifying fault for any “book” that purports to educate. The lessons are itsy bitsy, two-page “tips”, and even these baby steps are interrupted every paragraph or two by one of the author’s lame jokes. By selecting this style, the author is really telling us what he thinks of us. He thinks we are stupid children whose minds will wander if he doesn’t “entertain” us with a truly bad “joke” once or twice per lesson. This is insulting. If you want to learn to use PhotoShop to process your digital images, look elsewhere. I wish I had!
Rating: 2 / 5
an excellent photoshop resource–really creative functions on this book
Rating: 5 / 5
The author is really intrusive — he keeps flashing his big ego, name dropping, telling long rambling pointless tales, making stupid and irrelevant attempts at humor. Procedures are spelled out at extreme length, with anything but the most basic stuff marked “Advanced, for Pros Only”. At least two thirds of the space on most pages is taken up by the same photos repeated over and over, with little visible difference between photos.
If you were a professional photographer about to try digital photography, you’d be better to start with Photoshop Elements 2 and the two books Photoshop Elements 2 Solutions (a really complete introduction to — and overview of — the power of PE2), and The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2 (a detailed, in-depth introduction to the theory and practice of professional image retouching, with CD of software “power tools” to unlock virtually all the power of Photoshop, which is hidden in Photoshop Elements).
Rating: 3 / 5
If you are a PRO with digital imaging, but need some help with getting to know Photoshop 7.0- buy this book! Scott will teach you everything you need to know to make you works look incredible!
If you are pro with digital photography AND photoshop- BUY IT! Because Scott will teach you how you can do things in Photoshop easier!!!!
The best book I’ve ever read in my life about photoshop. Easy, step by step instructions- and you know something really cool about digital photography!
Hurry up, stop thinking- ORDER it NOW! Just one easy step- and you’re getting to be a PRO a+++++ with photoshop! I promise..no, not me- Scott….
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is pretty. … that’s about it … pretty. It could be much more helpful in the area of color-correction. Many of the image alterations are corny and have more steps involved than you really need to get the job done. Overall, it has a nice title but has nothing surprising in the realm of color correction, use of layers or effects.
Rating: 2 / 5