Complete Photoshop Cs2 for Digital Photographers (Digital Photography) [Paperback]

This book has 11 Chapters packed with need to know information for everyone interested in Digital Photography.
Chapter 1. Explores file formats, resolution and pixels, gets involved with 16 bit images, then it goes into adjusting in Camera Raw.
Chapter 2. Is all about Adobe Bridge, this helps plan and organize your images.
Explains how you can label, rate your images. Want to add copyright information to your image; you need Metadata, shows how to make a Metadata Template.
Use batch Renaming to rename an entire folder of images. Learn how to do contact sheets, picture package, PDF presentation with security. Make a Web Gallery add Watermark to your images automatically.
Chapter 3. It tells you how to crop and size your images without destroying their appearance. When you resize images you need to know all about resolution, this chapter explains in very good details about resolution, image size, canvas size all the resampling methods are here. Learn how to crop unwanted detail so that the picture draws the viewer into the picture, shows different cropping methods.
Chapter 4. Covers Image Correction, learn about histograms in detail.
Brightness/contrast, Shadow/highlight, Levels, Curves, Adjustment layers, it's all here.
Chapter 5. Bring out the best color in your images. Yes, this chapter is all about color Correction, try using adjustment layers. Learn Color Balance using variations, Match Color, Hue/Saturation use levels or curves to correct color.
Chapter 6. Sharpening and Noise Reduction, use the unsharpe mask to sharpen images, work in Lab Mode to sharpen, fading the sharpness, the Smart Sharpen tool will sharpen an image but not the grain, Nondestructive sharpening. Use Channels for noise reduction, Smart Blur for reducing Luminosity Noise, Lab Mode to reduce color noise.
Chapter 7. Takes you to the image retouching world, remove moles, blemishes, reduce wrinkles, whitening teeth, use the Healing brush, patch tool and liquify tool.
Chapter 8. Color effects, convert your images to grayscale and sepia, or just change the color of an object in a photo, add a vignette or an edge to your photo, make frame effects that mimic reality.
Chapter 9. Cover Special Effects, add depth of field to images, and turn a photo into a sketch or a watercolor painting. This chapter also involves the Vanishing Point, Speech Bubbles this chapter is a lot of fun.
Chapter 10. Working with multiple image, learn how to use color range to remove an object from its background, use the extract tool to extract images compositing two images, combining images, creating cast shadows.
Chapter 11. Covers Collaging Techniques and printing, blend collage using Layers, Masks and Blending Modes, use the advanced blending. Create a seamless panorama, also make an animation with the help of Image Ready, learn about color management and print accurate colors.

Conclusion: - This book is for Photographers who are changing from film to digital, amateurs and hobbyist that want to master Photoshop for their digital images.
The book is nicely laid out, clear figures and instructions. Comes with a CD-ROM with image files used from the tutorials also five video clips are included along with some actions.
5 (five) out of 5 (five)

I must have 15 Photoshop CS/CS2 books on my shelf and although I've learned something from each of them, there is one thing that is missing. That is, readability. Complete Photoshop CS2 for D.P. is the first book that I WANT TO READ!! I like reading this book!!
Each chapter is clear, concise, and full of tips. It is presented in such a way that you learn twice as much, in half the time!
If only I could start over I'd buy this one book. Not only would I save space on my bookshelf, but I would have enough money for CS3!

I've been using Photoshop for quite a while but have only recently been delving into digital photography. I haven't really been able to harness the power of combining the two and this book has many of the answers I was seeking in an organized and logical progression. I also appreciate the friendly voice in which it's written, it's not filled with head spinning jargon but is not "for dummies" either. All in all a valuable read and a book that won't just sit on my bookshelf but will be used as a reference for a good while to come.

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