The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers

by Scott Kelby and Скотт Келби

This is a workflow-based, time-saving handbook for the digital photography professional. Coverage is aimed squarely at the professional photographer who is making the switch from traditional to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735712360
• ISBN13: 9780735712362
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: New Riders Publishing
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Top Notch Book, Well Written and Laid Out!

This is a very good book. In fact it is by far the best I have found to guide me in taking images from camera to use! Comprehensive, but easy to follow and read. I am not a professional photographer, but I do take a lot of photographs. Some for fun, but many find their way into our company's website, PowerPoint slides, and promotional material (engineering and industrial projects). I also use a lot of photographs for my wife's travel business website and brochures. Mostly slides for years, but am now going "all digital." They all need adjusting, cropping, sharpening, fixing so I find myself using Photoshop more and more. I started using Photoshop 5.0 almost 6 years ago, about the time I purchased a scanner and started trying to master inserting images in documents for my work. I was no computer amateur, but what a struggle. I fumbled through at least two of the obscure "list everything and every option" manuals Kelby describes-with time consuming, mediocre results. Finally admitted defeat and enrolled in a Photoshop night course at university. Three years, Photoshop 7.1, Win2000, and many thousands of photographs later, I am still learning. I read through parts of this book at a local bookstore three weeks ago and quickly concluded that this was a book I had to have. Just got it today, and have actually read a third already! Good, solid advice on using Photoshop's browser was the first thing that caught my attention. I was using the limited "Zoom Browser" software that came with my new Canon digital camera and wasn't even aware of the browser capabilities of Photoshop. Also appreciated the advice on sharpening settings, some of which I had already noted from the class I took on Photoshop. I had been investigating sharpening plug-ins for Photoshop, and Kelby's examples are a good introduction to the different sharpening effects. Next will be colour curves and adjustments-which, despite appearances of my photos, I am still making a mess of! The book is very well laid out. Use of colour and white space is nicely done. Easy to read and follow, and generously illustrated with colour photographs for every step. In fact, this is one of my criteria for an instructional book-if it's not "easy on the eye" it will probably just sit on the shelf. Of course, eye candy can grow old quickly without content. Kelby covers the subject well in an informal and humorous style. His advice is right on, and to the point: I have photos, now I need to use them-even if it's only to e-mail friends and family. He lays out how to do this.

BEST HOW TO BOOK I'VE EVER READ

MY QUALIFICATIONS: (ADVANCED NOVICE) I am a professional photographer and videographer. IMAGEWERX is my company. I am a video and photo editor, I photo and video weddings, and design and author custom DVDs. I have used Adobe Photoshop since 1997 and the only training I have had has been hands-on and tips from friends. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP VERSION I USE: Photoshop CS (MAC) MY OPINION OF THE BOOK: The best how-to book I ever bought. I have learned a lot about Photoshop from this book. It's Easy to read. Easy to follow. Takes me step-by-step through the process. The attempts at humor didn't annoy me. That didn't distract me from the content of the book. I liked it because it made me feel closer to the author and that he was writing to me and not at me. HOW I USE THIS BOOK: Usually, I don't read this type of book cover to cover. If I need to know how to do something I look it up. However, I have found myself actually reading this book section by section. I have never done that before (I have adult ADD so keeping me focused and interested for more then 10 seconds is a challenge). But this book has so many valuable lessons that take you step-by-step through the process I can't help but read it. I used to do a lot of things the hard way. Now I am saving a lot of time (which means money) by doing them the right way. I now consider my self a Photoshop expert. My photographs are better quality and my processing time has been more than cut in half because of this book. WILL THIS BOOK WORK FOR YOU? That's up to you. One review I saw here was worthless because it talked about the information being available on the Web. So what does that have to do with the book? Every book I have ever bought has information I could find in other sources. It is how well it is written that matters to me. I have bought several books on the same subject and they all had the same information, but what was important to me was the one that I could follow and understand the best. This book is that to me. WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE ADDED TO THE NEXT ADDITION: More Web site creation information including ImageReady how to steps.

Scott gets DOWN & DIRTY behind the lens!

If you own a digital camera you NEED this book. I don't care what level you are at. But I have to make something clear. Make no mistake, this is first and foremost a PHOTOSHOP book. If you have a digital camera but you do not have PhotoShop, this book is not for you. But if you do have PhotoShop, especially PS 7, this book is INDISPENSABLE. Look, I can go on and on here about how great this book is, but why bother? If you own Photoshop you MUST know who Scott Kelby is. There really is nothing more to say. Either you get up every day and thank god for him every time you use PhotoShop or you don't. IF you do, this is his BEST book, enough said. Order it, and get very excited when it arrives. If he is not for you, you probably haven't even read this far. And I did put this book to the test. I took three of what I consider to be my best 8x10 digital pics (taken with my Minolta DImage 7) and re-worked them according to Scott's instructions. Although I was on the ledge as to if the re-worked images were better than my original images (I'm sure there was some ego on my part involved) I put the three images side by side with the reworked ones and showed them to 4 of my clients. And although the differences were mainly in the working of the midrange areas only, all 4 of my clients picked the re-worked images. Thanks, Scott. Everytime I pick up one of your books, you make me better at what I do. You gotta love this guy.

Best Photoshop Book Out There For Digital Photographers

I've been using PhotoShop since about 1993 when the publisher I used dumped his darkroom to go digital. Since then, I've owned many Photoshop books. My favorites have been the WOW! Book series, because of the free styles and other goodies on the CD-ROM, and Real World Photoshop by Blatner and Fraser. Recently, I bought a new Canon EOS 10D, and I was looking for books to aid in color correcting and retouching photos shot with a digital SLR. I couldn't believe how easy "the Photoshop Book for Digitial Photographers" is to use. If you think the WOW! books are great, you'll really enjoy Kelby's book; his instructions are so simple and they produce such dramatic results.The book is also a good bargain for the money. The list price is ... which is much better than a ... book that's loaded with useless tutorials on effects that have no practical applications.Now, I only wish I could get a subscription to Photoshop User magazine, which Kelby edits, without having to join the NAPP. I think ... is too steep for 12 issues of a magazine. Guess I'll just have to wait for Kelby's next book!

The curve tutorial was worth the price of this book to me

If you have [$$] that's just burning a hole in your pocket, spend it on this Photoshop book.I think I have about 20 Photoshop book in my collection, but this is by far the best one I have ever bought.Very easy to understand ( very little of that technical junk) just step by step examples for digital camera junkies.I always have struggled understanding how to use "curves" in Photoshop, but this book explained it perfect.The curve tutorial was worth the price of the book to me......