- Paperback: 984 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (21 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321334116
- ISBN-13: 978-0321334114
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 18.3 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 824,064 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Fooling around with Photoshop to create interesting composite artwork is all well and good. But if you rely on Photoshop to meet tough production challenges in a fast-paced professional environment, fooling around won't cut it! You need results, and you need them now: This book delivers! In this copiously illustrated volume, best-selling authors David Blatner and Bruce Fraser offer scads of hands-on production techniques as well as clear explanations of the concepts that drive them, so that you can get the best results possible on your own Photoshop CS2 projects. You'll learn about managing color, getting great scans, correcting tones and colors, and more. You also find complete coverage of all of Photoshop CS2's newest features: integration with Adobe Bridge; Vanishing Point; super-tight integration with the rest of Adobe's Creative Suite 2; and more. Throughout, the emphasis is on efficiency: the time-saving tips and professional shortcuts that will allow you to work faster, smarter, and more creatively with Photoshop CS2.
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Fooling around with Photoshop to create interesting composite artwork is all well and good. But if you rely on Photoshop to meet tough production challenges in a fast-paced professional environment, fooling around won't cut it! You need results, and you need them now: This book delivers! In this copiously illustrated volume, best-selling authors David Blatner and Bruce Fraser offer scads of hands-on production techniques as well as clear explanations of the concepts that drive them, so that you can get the best results possible on your own Photoshop CS2 projects. You'll learn about managing color, getting great scans, correcting tones and colors, and more. You also find complete coverage of all of Photoshop CS2's newest features: integration with Adobe Bridge; Vanishing Point; super-tight integration with the rest of Adobe's Creative Suite 2; and more. Throughout, the emphasis is on efficiency: the time-saving tips and professional shortcuts that will allow you to work faster, smarter, and more creatively with Photoshop CS2.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Real World Photoshop CS2 for Bruce Fraser and David Blatner cover in about 950 pages all you need to use Adobe Photoshop CS2 in your career starting from the hardware required to build your Photoshop friendly system to the basic knowledge of the color and image editing and ends with using Photoshop in multimedia and web.
This book covers Photoshop CS2 from A to Z in 14 chapters. It starts with introducing Photoshop interface and tools, and then it goes in the following chapters to describe the essential image concepts such as pixels, bit depth, resolution...etc.
After this essential knowledge, the book covers the basic color concepts and how to implement the Photoshop tools to adjust images.
The last chapters include how to workflow your work through Adobe Bridge, how to output your images and how to work with your images for web and multimedia projects.
This book is a very good book for beginners and intermediate Photoshop users, who would like to hit the point of using Photoshop in their real life.
This book covers Photoshop CS2 from A to Z in 14 chapters. It starts with introducing Photoshop interface and tools, and then it goes in the following chapters to describe the essential image concepts such as pixels, bit depth, resolution...etc.
After this essential knowledge, the book covers the basic color concepts and how to implement the Photoshop tools to adjust images.
The last chapters include how to workflow your work through Adobe Bridge, how to output your images and how to work with your images for web and multimedia projects.
This book is a very good book for beginners and intermediate Photoshop users, who would like to hit the point of using Photoshop in their real life.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm an Engineer and Physicist, so I'm always eager to go to the root cause of the things I'm doing. Bruce and David definitely know what's behind Photoshop and they'll explain it with deep details, too deep. This is the only reason why I can give the book only 4*. There are plenty of examples, but they take long and convoluted way to explaining things. If you are a beginner, look for something else, but if you're an intermediate, this may be the book for you. It is very comprehensive and can give you very professional instruments to improve your Photoshop workflow. They even show you many different ways to tackle the same problem in the most effective way. The drawback is the tiring length. Probably the same concepts could have been summarized in less than 2/3 of the pages.
Moral of the story: If you can focus your attention through the 1000 pages of the book, you'll end up with a large luggage of bits of information, tip and tricks you even ever dreamed of.
Max
Moral of the story: If you can focus your attention through the 1000 pages of the book, you'll end up with a large luggage of bits of information, tip and tricks you even ever dreamed of.
Max
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84 of 85 people found the following review helpful
This book remains the Gold Standard for anyone serious about Photoshop
29 Nov 2005
Format:Paperback
I've read over 30 Photoshop books over the last 15-years (including two previous editions of this book). Nothing compares with "Real World Photoshop." It is truly authoritative, clear and practical. Of all those 30 books if I had to just pick one, it would be this - truly the gold standard. If you are going to use Photoshop as a professional or a serious amateur, you owe it to yourself to read this book very carefully. Twice.
The book is lengthy (984 pages) but for such a rich program that much space is required. Scattered throughout the book are hundreds of "Tips" in bold letters. If you just did a speed-reading of these I bet your Photoshop skills would double. Rare for such a technical book is the clarity of the writing - it's actually a pleasure to read. They express complex ideas clearly without resorting to obscure language. In general, the illustrations are excellent and large enough to clearly demonstrate what they are supposed to.
What would make it better? I wish the discussion on Merge to HDR (High Dynamic Range) were more comprehensive and less dismissive. Likewise, the cursory mention of LAB color space as for "geeks only" seems short sighted in light of the revelations in Dan Margulis's new "LAB Color" book.
In a book this long you expect a few mistakes, such as the statement that "The Tint control lets you fine-tune the color balance along the axis that's perpendicular to the one controlled by the Temperature slider...". However in this case, they are not perpendicular, because there are three-color axes, not two. But these flaws are the rare exceptions.
A quick search here on Amazon.com for books on Photoshop turned up 1,497 titles.
Unless you are an absolute beginner, you can skip 1,496 of those books. Just buy this one and you will have all you need.
Henry F. Domke.
(...)
The book is lengthy (984 pages) but for such a rich program that much space is required. Scattered throughout the book are hundreds of "Tips" in bold letters. If you just did a speed-reading of these I bet your Photoshop skills would double. Rare for such a technical book is the clarity of the writing - it's actually a pleasure to read. They express complex ideas clearly without resorting to obscure language. In general, the illustrations are excellent and large enough to clearly demonstrate what they are supposed to.
What would make it better? I wish the discussion on Merge to HDR (High Dynamic Range) were more comprehensive and less dismissive. Likewise, the cursory mention of LAB color space as for "geeks only" seems short sighted in light of the revelations in Dan Margulis's new "LAB Color" book.
In a book this long you expect a few mistakes, such as the statement that "The Tint control lets you fine-tune the color balance along the axis that's perpendicular to the one controlled by the Temperature slider...". However in this case, they are not perpendicular, because there are three-color axes, not two. But these flaws are the rare exceptions.
A quick search here on Amazon.com for books on Photoshop turned up 1,497 titles.
Unless you are an absolute beginner, you can skip 1,496 of those books. Just buy this one and you will have all you need.
Henry F. Domke.
(...)
62 of 62 people found the following review helpful
The authority on PhotoShop CS2
22 Nov 2005
Format:Paperback
This book was written by the author of Real World Camera Raw and Real World Color Management. I own the second of these books and found that it is the best book around for color management, so I gave this book a shot. There are Fourteen Chapters (Building a PS System, Tips & Tricks, Image Essentials, Color Essentials, Color Settings, Digital Darkroom, Making Selections, ... Multimedia and the Web) covering about 915 pages. A very thorough book - which is the reason for the high price tag.
From Chapter one, you can tell that the author isn't going to `gloss over' anything. He goes into depth about how to setup paging files, configure RAM, etc. This is not beginner stuff and is not aimed at someone who just bought CS2 and wants to use it. The book moves directly into "Tips and Tricks." Again, not a beginner chapter, but aimed at getting users who are familiar with PS to use it more efficiently. This one chapter covers about 50% (or more) of the tips in Scott Kelby's Tips and Tricks book - very good!
Chapter 3 (Image Essentials) begins with a very thorough explanation of pixels and paths. It explains bit depth, resolution, types of resampling, CMYK vs RGB, etc. Chapters 4 & 5 provide 125 pages of color - Color Essentials, Color Management, Color Settings. Remember, this guy wrote the book on Color Management, so the level of detail is intense, but the explanations are clear. Finally, on page 227, we break out of the theory and the last 700 or so pages are dedicated to hands-on PhotoShop.
If you are looking for a "step by step" How-to book on PhotoShop, this isn't it. Instead its a comprehensive guide on getting the most out of the best photo software product on the market. Its definitely slanted toward photographers (as opposed to graphical artists). I believe that I've read through most of the CS2 books out there - and purchased a few of them. For me, this provided the most useful information and the clearest explanations.
From Chapter one, you can tell that the author isn't going to `gloss over' anything. He goes into depth about how to setup paging files, configure RAM, etc. This is not beginner stuff and is not aimed at someone who just bought CS2 and wants to use it. The book moves directly into "Tips and Tricks." Again, not a beginner chapter, but aimed at getting users who are familiar with PS to use it more efficiently. This one chapter covers about 50% (or more) of the tips in Scott Kelby's Tips and Tricks book - very good!
Chapter 3 (Image Essentials) begins with a very thorough explanation of pixels and paths. It explains bit depth, resolution, types of resampling, CMYK vs RGB, etc. Chapters 4 & 5 provide 125 pages of color - Color Essentials, Color Management, Color Settings. Remember, this guy wrote the book on Color Management, so the level of detail is intense, but the explanations are clear. Finally, on page 227, we break out of the theory and the last 700 or so pages are dedicated to hands-on PhotoShop.
If you are looking for a "step by step" How-to book on PhotoShop, this isn't it. Instead its a comprehensive guide on getting the most out of the best photo software product on the market. Its definitely slanted toward photographers (as opposed to graphical artists). I believe that I've read through most of the CS2 books out there - and purchased a few of them. For me, this provided the most useful information and the clearest explanations.
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Fraser/Blatner book compared to others
20 Feb 2006
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In my recent effort to educate myself in matters of Photoshop CS2 I read in detail three books - Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Photographers by Martin Evening, Photoshop CS2 by Fraser & Blatner, and The Photoshop CS2 book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby. Of the three, I would rank the Evening and the Fraser & Blatner books as comprehensive books that, if the reader would fully understand all that was discussed, they would be considered a Photoshop Pro. The Kelby book I considered to be quite basic in that it covered only some of the principal topics and did so in an elementary fashion (it would take Kelby four pages with all his illustrations and stepwise instructions to cover what the other books might cover in one). I would recommend the Kelby book for a hobbyist that doesn't want to devote a lot of learning time and who wishes only a basic knowledge of Photoshop CS2 in order to occasionally turn out a nice image. I would recommend either of the other two books if one wants a mastery of what CS2 can really do. But, be warned that the subject is complex and will take a lot of time to learn. Of the two, Evening's book has the advantage in that it is a little less expensive, he includes a disk containing the images used in many of his tutorials so the reader can follow along with the same exercises, and because he is a fashion photographer many of his images are fashion shots of pretty women. The Fraser & Blatner book has the advantage of being somewhat larger and more complete and goes into deeper detail on some aspects of CS2. Both of these books have a high orientation to producing images for commercial press publication. I would recommend that if one wants to really learn CS2 they read both books, even though the same topics are covered in both, the subject is sufficiently complex it pays to learn it twice from perhaps somewhat different angles.
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