The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby

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  • Pub. Date: April 2005
  • 457pp
  • Sales Rank: 163,488

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    • Pub. Date: April 2005
    • Publisher: New Riders
    • Format: Paperback, 457pp
    • Sales Rank: 163,488

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    --Jeff Kent, Special Hot1 Awards Editor / Editor at Large Professional Photographer magazine

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    Scott Kelby is President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), the trade organization for Adobe Photoshop users, with thousands of members in the US and 63 countries. Scott is Editor-in-Chief of both Photoshop User magazine and Mac Design Magazine. He serves as training director for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour and is the technical chair of the largest Photoshop gathering, Photoshop World. Scott is one of the leading Photoshop trainers in the country today and trains thousands of Photoshop users across the country each year, and is featured in a series of Photoshop training videos.

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    Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographersby Anonymous

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    March 12, 2008: Anyone who is a total beginner to any photoshop program needs a Scott Kelby book 'I'm using CS2 and Elements 5 at the moment'. He is straight forward and user friendly with his directions. He never makes the assumption that you know where and what the different features are on the program. Truely a step-by-step guide for even the least computer savvy user. Totally worth the money, even more than other books on the same subject. I'm going to buy his DVD next.

    Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographersby Anonymous

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    December 26, 2005: I've been reading things written about Photoshop by Scott Kelby since version 5.5 and I've yet to be disappointed. As the title indicates, this book targets digital photographers, though evil film photographers will benefit from this book as well. The book begins with a hilarious forward where Kelby interviews himself. He gets down to business by teaching several tips, tricks and techniques on getting your photos from your camera and into Adobe Bridge. He covers everything one could possibly want from Bridge in these first 2 chapters. The book then continues with discussing Camera Raw, resizing and cropping (that?s right, 24 pages on these closely related topics) and a chapter each on color management and color correction. I tried one of his color correcting techniques that uses curves. After creating an action with it, I now use it on every photo that I open in Photoshop. It?s one of those things that I didn?t know I needed but I?ve yet to use it on a photo and NOT have the color improve noticeably. Kelby covers conversion to black and white, common digital photo problems, cloning / healing, and 46 pages on retouching portraits. There is an in depth chapter on special effects followed by lessons in creating ?panos?. The next 28 pages is invaluable for sharpening photos. He gives exact values for different sharpening techniques and sharpening different subjects. Kelby is very good about providing exact numbers to use for SEVERAL different techniques, not just sharpening. The last two chapters have to do with showing your work to clients. If you?re not a professional photographer these chapters are NOT wasted. There is very useful information on everything regarding printing: Picture packages, digital frames and embedding digital copyrights on your photos. He even explains how and why you should download different ICC profiles from the different paper manufacturers. Since I did this, I?ve gotten nothing but compliments on my work. Do yourself a favor and order this book today!


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