- Paperback: 768 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (10 Dec 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321518683
- ISBN-13: 978-0321518682
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 19.3 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 708,037 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Anyone who relies on Photoshop to meet tough production challenges knows that when a new version arrives, especially one as chockfull of enhancements as Photoshop CS3, there's no time to fool around. You need to get up to speed on it, and you need to do so now. This book will get you there. In this copiously illustrated book, best-selling author David Blatner offers shows you how to sharpen your Photoshop production techniques and provides clear explanations of the concepts that drive them. Readers will learn about managing color, correcting colors, capturing images, getting great scans, and more. They'll also find complete coverage of Photoshop CS3's new features: a streamlined interface, nondestructive Smart Filters, a new Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools, improved Curves, automatic layer alignment and blending, and more. Throughout, the emphasis in this book is on efficiency: the timesaving tips and professional shortcuts that will allow readers to solve their everyday production challenges creatively with Photoshop CS3.
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Anyone who relies on Photoshop to meet tough production challenges knows that when a new version arrives, especially one as chockfull of enhancements as Photoshop CS3, there's no time to fool around. You need to get up to speed on it, and you need to do so now. This book will get you there. In this copiously illustrated book, best-selling author David Blatner offers shows you how to sharpen your Photoshop production techniques and provides clear explanations of the concepts that drive them. Readers will learn about managing color, correcting colors, capturing images, getting great scans, and more. They'll also find complete coverage of Photoshop CS3's new features: a streamlined interface, nondestructive Smart Filters, a new Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools, improved Curves, automatic layer alignment and blending, and more. Throughout, the emphasis in this book is on efficiency: the timesaving tips and professional shortcuts that will allow readers to solve their everyday production challenges creatively with Photoshop CS3.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book is an first-rate source of in-depth information upon all the features of Photoshop that one needs to know to reach intermediate and beyond level. Everything from colour management and printing concerns down to different ways that you can use the eraser tool. It's lucidly and amiably written, and effectively illustrated in colour or otherwise. It is moreover free from tiresome childish exercises tangential to one's aims, and it helps you evaluate your options rather than steering you confusingly around. You can dip into it or read it all through methodically - an interesting read plus a comprehensive reference afterwards.
I wish I'd gone straight for this book, hefty tome that it seems, when I first started using Photoshop CS3 in early 2008. The beginner books left me as much befuddled as edified, whereas 'obscurity' is the last word I'd use in relation to, not just this book that I'm reviewing, but to the joint authors' approach generally. If the volume length seems daunting, that's because it's referring to the ever-astonishing versatility of Photoshop.
Just add that I bought this along with Ben Willmore's 'Adobe Photoshop CS4: Up to Speed'. Since although I'm now using the latest Photoshop version, the current Real World books related to it have split into two concentrations - one specifically focused on photographic work, the other upon 'compositing' of imagery while statedly taking for granted basic Photoshop skills. As a digital artist, I'm seeking to fill in the fundamental holes in my grounding in image editing in Photoshop, before turning to compositing and so forth. Took a chance and bought this book and it seems to be exactly what I needed at this stage. Essential reading, in short.
I wish I'd gone straight for this book, hefty tome that it seems, when I first started using Photoshop CS3 in early 2008. The beginner books left me as much befuddled as edified, whereas 'obscurity' is the last word I'd use in relation to, not just this book that I'm reviewing, but to the joint authors' approach generally. If the volume length seems daunting, that's because it's referring to the ever-astonishing versatility of Photoshop.
Just add that I bought this along with Ben Willmore's 'Adobe Photoshop CS4: Up to Speed'. Since although I'm now using the latest Photoshop version, the current Real World books related to it have split into two concentrations - one specifically focused on photographic work, the other upon 'compositing' of imagery while statedly taking for granted basic Photoshop skills. As a digital artist, I'm seeking to fill in the fundamental holes in my grounding in image editing in Photoshop, before turning to compositing and so forth. Took a chance and bought this book and it seems to be exactly what I needed at this stage. Essential reading, in short.
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21 Mar 2008
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There's nothing else out there that comes even close to this book as an encyclopedic reference to Photoshop CS3. Losing Bruce Fraser is a terrible blow to all of us who've relied for decades on his ability to make complicated subjects understandable, but David Blatner is keeping up the tradition and it appears that Conrad Chavez is a valuable addition to the lineup.
The chapter on color settings in this book is worth the price of admission all by itself. If you do serious work with CS3 you NEED this book. Sit down and read it all the way through, highlight revealing passages, and make notes on the blank parts of the front pages. When you finish you'll have the whole story at your fingertips. Like most CS3 users I work with a subset of Photoshop most of the time, but when I'm faced with an unusual problem I can dive into this book and come up with the solution in a minute or two. Once you've done your homework on the book you won't want to be without it.
The chapter on color settings in this book is worth the price of admission all by itself. If you do serious work with CS3 you NEED this book. Sit down and read it all the way through, highlight revealing passages, and make notes on the blank parts of the front pages. When you finish you'll have the whole story at your fingertips. Like most CS3 users I work with a subset of Photoshop most of the time, but when I'm faced with an unusual problem I can dive into this book and come up with the solution in a minute or two. Once you've done your homework on the book you won't want to be without it.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
A real winner
3 Mar 2008
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Very in-depth explanation of Photoshop CS3. A lot more detailed and advanced than most Photoshop books. This is really a resource or reference book and not a book that you can just sit down and read through like Scoot Kelby's book on CS3 for digital photographers, but it is far more informative and in-depth than Kelby's book.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Amazing learning!
7 Jun 2008
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This book surpassed all my expectations, it was made for serious professionals, and that's what I wanted. Although I'm only an amateur photographer and Photoshop enthusiast, I'm enjoying the book, but because I'm very curious and exactly because I love Photoshop so much I wanted to understand everything about it.
If you are also an enthusiast/amateur but don't care about how this marvelous program works, you better get an easier book with canned "how toos". This book also has step by step guides, but on the top of it they explain every single detail of how everything works.
The authors give very in depth explanations on color theory, color management (I had a hard time on this), color spaces, exactly what is a digital image, etc. Although I found this all fascinating, as I already said I had a hard time trying to understand some concepts about color management, but my guess is that if you are a professional you will understand it better.
They also explain Bridge and Camera Raw. I understand why they included these 2 programs in the book (they work together, although CR is actually a plugin), but I could live without it, mostly because there are more in depth books about CR, like Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Real World), by Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe (I love this guy, check out his videos on CR at the Luminous Landscape website). If you don't plan on buying a specific book on CR, then the chapter about it is a good introduction.
The most fun part is of course on Photoshop itself, covered in a brilliant, flawless way, with everything you could wish for and more.
The book is massive, more than 700 pages, and is written in a nice, light but serious way. They won't waste your time and patience on endless silly jokes like Scott Kelby. For someone like me, whose mother language isn't English, I could understand everything and the reading flowed smoothly.
If you are also an enthusiast/amateur but don't care about how this marvelous program works, you better get an easier book with canned "how toos". This book also has step by step guides, but on the top of it they explain every single detail of how everything works.
The authors give very in depth explanations on color theory, color management (I had a hard time on this), color spaces, exactly what is a digital image, etc. Although I found this all fascinating, as I already said I had a hard time trying to understand some concepts about color management, but my guess is that if you are a professional you will understand it better.
They also explain Bridge and Camera Raw. I understand why they included these 2 programs in the book (they work together, although CR is actually a plugin), but I could live without it, mostly because there are more in depth books about CR, like Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Real World), by Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe (I love this guy, check out his videos on CR at the Luminous Landscape website). If you don't plan on buying a specific book on CR, then the chapter about it is a good introduction.
The most fun part is of course on Photoshop itself, covered in a brilliant, flawless way, with everything you could wish for and more.
The book is massive, more than 700 pages, and is written in a nice, light but serious way. They won't waste your time and patience on endless silly jokes like Scott Kelby. For someone like me, whose mother language isn't English, I could understand everything and the reading flowed smoothly.
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