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Book review The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers
I Just borrowed Adobe Photoshop CS3 book for digital photographers at my school (Not really my school, I almost only visit it to borrow books and stuff).
I just finished reading the book yesterday, I love reading learning material as bet time stories and here is my little review of the book.
First impression, it looks like most other Adobe books, not much new there, but then again, I always love reading books by Scott Kelby, he is on of my favorite writers, and the number 1 best selling author on the topic. But what I really love about Scott Kelbys books, is he removes all the bull shit, and shows you exactly how to do stuff.
Its not a book of theory and graphs explaining how stuff works, its more a step by step guide, you follow a lot of examples and learn by doing Photoshop tricks yourself.
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The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers
Insider knowledge chapter by chapter:
Adobe Photoshop CS3 book for digital photographers is a great book divided in chapters covering every aspect on digital photograph manipulation.
Chapter 1, "London Bridge" How to use the Bridge tool to manage all your images.
Chapter 2, "The Bridge" This is an extension of the London Bridge chapter, Seriously I never used the Bridge software before, but after reading these chapters I started using it, and I must say, its a nice tool.
Chapter 3, "Raw Deal" Talking about the new Camera Raw changes in Photoshop CS3.
Chapter 4, "Resized" The title says it all, this chapters is about sizing images in Photoshop, how to get your images sized right for any purpose and still remain sharpness.
Chapter 5, "Fit a Print" A great Photoshop guide through color management, how to configure your camera to match Photoshop's color space.
Chapter 6, "Local Color" How to bring forth the brightness and real colors of an image, this chapters will cover very important tool for a photographer like the Eyedropper, color correction etc.
Chapter 7, "Black and White World" A picture does not need colors to bring up emotions, so this chapter explains how to create stunning black and white photos in Photoshop.
Chapter 8, "99 Problems" This is a chapter showing you how to diagnose and fix and correct commend digital image problems, including indoor shots, red eye, reflections on glass, etc.
Chapter 9, "Faces" Retouching portrait image. This chapter covers every aspect of image retouching, to make a great portrait image.
Chapter 10, "Special Delivery" This is a awesome chapter talking about special effects in Photoshop. Just to make an image more interesting.
Chapter 11, "Look Sharp" The title says it all, learn techniques to sharpen your images.
Within these chapters you will learn a lot of tricks, make your work flow better by using shortcuts, nice workarounds to make your daily Photoshop use faster and more effective.
In my opinion The Adobe Photoshop CS3 book for digital photographers is a very useful book, I dont have a lot of photographers skills, but this book might help me get my bad images look a lot better. I will be posting some images in the future where I have applied some of these techniques.