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Title: Real World Adobe Photoshop 7 by David Blatner, Bruce Fraser ISBN: 0-321-11560-0 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 16 July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: These boys know there business.
Comment: OK, I'm reading one or two other books at the moment that are pretty good for what I need but this is the book that fills in the missing blanks.
Written in an approachable way that really makes it easy to understand and learn, highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book tells you how to really use a great product.
Comment: I've gradually been working my way up the Photoshop ladder for the last three years and finally got to Photoshop 7. It became obvious fairly early on that that there was much more to it than Adobe's manual described, so I started searching for a better book.
Blatner and Fraser's book is it. I still have a lot more to learn, but now I feel comfortable with using Photoshop 7. The book is oriented to photographers, not web designers, which is what I wanted and their description of the uses of levels and curves is great. Also, since I'm not a professional, my interest does not lie in preparing images for a commercial print shop, however,my guess is that the discussion of how to do such work would be extremely helpful to those who do.
Sydney Self
Rating: 5
Summary: The Ultimate Digital Dark Room Technique Book
Comment: Real World Photoshop 7 is an ultimate digital dark room technique book for Photoshop 7 users. The largest part of the book is dedicated to dark room techniques, but a good part of the book covers such things as getting the best scans, creating effects, saving for the web, making half-tones, etc.
They cover lots of issues that help me understand WHY I might want to do something a certain way. Such as, the differences between RGB, CMYK and LAB color. When I bring a digital photo into Photoshop, I almost always feel a need to adjust it, fix the levels, etc. Fooling with the levels usually causes a color shift. To avoid that, they explain how to change the mode from RGB to LAB color, and then apply the levels command to the L (luminance) channel, leaving the color untouched. I can change the mode back to RGB afterwards, if I want.
In discussing color correction, they talk about fixing the neutrals so the rest will follow and explain that in Photoshop's RGB mode, it automatically calculates the amount of CMYK to produce neutrals, but in CMYK mode, you have to manually fill in the percentages. The section on color correction is incredible.
They discuss printing from Photoshop 7, the issue of different file formats and which to use when; the Rule of 16; which settings take precedence over others, and much more.
The book is well laid out, with an easy to follow structure. Several light bulbs spontaneously illuminated for me while reading this book. This book is useful to new Photoshop users and for seasoned photographers who have past experience with Photoshop but like to keep a reference of new features.
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Title: Real World Color Management by Bruce Fraser, Fred Bunting, Chris Murphy ISBN: 0201773406 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 13 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby ISBN: 0735712360 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 05 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Mastering Digital Printing: The Photographer's and Artist's Guide to High-Quality Digital Output by Harald Johnson ISBN: 1929685653 Publisher: Muska & Lipman Pub Pub. Date: 02 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team ISBN: 0321115627 Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Photoshop 7 Artistry: Mastering the Digital Image by Barry Haynes, Wendy Crumpler ISBN: 0735712409 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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