Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Voices) | List Price: $49.99
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Binding: Paperback
This is the book that I have been looking for a long time!! [Posted on 2008-10-01]
This is the book that I have been waiting for for a long time. I have been optimizing my photos with photoshop, but it always felt uncomfortable because of a lack of structure. The seven points system allows me to keep a structured approach and my photos look a lot better. What I also like about the book is Scott's writing style which is lively and funny and keeps me reading (usually I get bored and don't finish the book).
This one I finished, with pleasure, it's the first book I rated with 5 stars,thanks!
Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Voices)
Excellent PhotoShop Tutorial [Posted on 2008-10-05]
This book is a useful addition to the digital photographer's library. Its focus is helping the reader make sense of PhotoShop's vast capabilities to solve photographic post-production dilemas. The examples used by the tutorial chapters are included in a CD-ROM so that the reader can follow along with the illustrated commentary.
While the book very effectively covers the territory it sets out to explore, I think there is at least one other area of photographic post-production that can be and should be usefully explored: composition. In fact, I think there is an "eighth point" that should be added to the System for more completeness. Specifically, there are things the photographer can do with the transformative features of PhotoShop that can have substantial benefit for more complete image optimumization. Have a look at Edit->Transform options. These offer a great deal of scope for improving a photograph beyond just light and color balance.
Very Novel and Helpful approach to PhotoShop [Posted on 2008-10-06]
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is by far one of the best books on how to use Adobe PhotoShop CS3. I really learned a lot on lightroom techniques with PhotoShop. As an instructor for a local Community College in Adobe PhotoShop, I intend to use this book in the class. This is not a beginning book, but one for the advanced PhotoShop user, very informative.
7 point system [Posted on 2008-10-15]
This book helps you in establishing an effective workflow by reinforcing a good working 'order'.
Some of the techniques used within the steps are a matter of choice and, in my opinion, not always the most effective, but the theory of which step first, second etc is spot on.
Starting with Camera Raw each and every time, and using it multiple times in reworking an image is bang on.
Would recommend this for anyone wishing to nail down good working habits.
Well worth the money.
Mindless, but useful [Posted on 2008-10-16]
If you're the type of person who just wants someone to tell you what steps to follow to achieve a certain effect, and who doesn't want to learn the underlying reasons for anything, this book is for you. If you are entertained by lame humor accompanying your cookie-cutter instructions, this book is also for you. If you really want to learn Photoshop thoroughly so you can handle any situation that pops up in a creative way, you'll have to turn elsewhere. Ironically, reading a lot of Scott's books, as well as books by others, especially Dan Margulis, may be the best course for you.
But you can't dispute that Scott Kelby is the best self-promoter digital imaging has ever seen, and he really knows how to take a little information and stretch it out to book length in a style that will please hundreds of thousands of readers. As I said in my title, many of Scott's books are a little mindless, but for those who like their information spoon-fed, the approach has proved to be very useful. For that audience, I give this book three stars.
More ambitious readers should check out something like Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-On-One
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