Photoshop Pro Photography Handbook: Advanced Post-Production Techniques
Friday, November 27th, 2009 at
4:07 am
Product Description
Photographers who want to master the art of digital manipulation will find this information-packed resource essential! It’s chock-full of illustrations, insider tips, and practical examples for making the most of Photoshop’s popular software—including the new CS3. Pros and advanced amateurs who want to correct, enhance, or simply play with their images will be able to make sure they’ve got the ideal equipment setup for their needs, and get the lowdown on Photoshop basics. They’ll eagerly explore more advanced tools, including layers, blending, masks, and paths. And best of all, photographers not only learn how to master such techniques as resizing, cropping, and working with lighting effects and filters, but they’ll understand why they’re so important for getting the best quality prints possible.
Photoshop Pro Photography Handbook: Advanced Post-Production Techniques
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This book is an excellent primer on the latest version of Photoshop CS3. And because it explains the principles behind the techniques of working in this very deep program, it should remain viable as a referrence aid in your library for sometime. I like many things about the book including the easy to follow layout, the large, sharp photographs used as illustrations, the information-packed captioned side boxes for when you just want to skim the information, and the concise, no nonsense, very factual without being overly technical, style of writing. The illustrations of the various dialogue boxes from the program which are crucial to getting the most from Photoshop are sharp, pertinent and stick in your memory. I am an intermediate level user, and I found much in this book to increase and solidify my knowledge. I would also recommend this book for the serious novice who wants to accelerate and stretch their knowledge. There is probably not much to challenge the advanced pro (8-10 years or more in Photoshop) but since knowing the basics is what it’s about in general, it wouldn’t hurt to review what you know to ensure you are operating most efficiently and non-destructively which is what this book promotes. The title implies that the book is about advanced techniques which may be misleading to some. These obviously are the latest techniques and they may be very advanced for photographers (as opposed to graphic artists) but there are other books which would more appropriately be called advanced on the market. Most importantly, the book in general, is a good read and an enjoyable page turner for anyone interested in exploring this program.
Rating: 5 / 5
The title of this book gave me high hopes for a book of at least intermediate but hopefully “pro” level as the title suggests. A real let down, the book hardly scratches the surfaces and only really goes over the basics of photoshop for photography the anyone with at least a reasonable knowledge of photoshop will already know. Deceiving title…
Rating: 2 / 5