The Photoshop CS Book for Digital Photographers FROM OUR EDITORS
The Barnes & Noble Review
If youﾽre serious about your images, and you use Photoshop CS, you need Scott Kelbyﾽs The Adobe Photoshop CS Book for Digital Photographers.
This isnﾽt the place for total newbies: There are no introductory essays about f-stops, lenses, or framing your shots here. Rather, Kelby focuses on the questions serious photographers and hobbyists ask him. And they ask him plenty of questions -- in his enormously popular seminars, as Editor in Chief of Photoshop User Magazine, and in his role as President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.
Kelby starts at the moment your photos enter Photoshop from your digital camera. Then, he scrupulously follows real professional workflow. Sorting and categorizing photos. Coping with image problems that jump right out at you. Color correction. Selections and masking. Retouching. Sharpening. And finally, the money moment: client review and approval.
Youﾽll begin with a professionalﾽs eye view of the new Photoshop File Browser -- from contact sheets to Photoshpﾽs convenient batch renaming feature. Then, itﾽs on to cropping, resizing, and straightening: getting the custom sizes you need; creating your own custom crop tools (and why you might); and automating all sorts of tasks, including close cropping. Kelby shows how to straighten photos using visible grids, and even presents a handy trick for turning small photos into poster-sized prints.
Youﾽll learn how to compensate for problems in your original image -- from too much (or little) flash to color aliasing, keystoning to digital noise -- including topics like high ISO and blue channel noise that most books skip entirely. Thereﾽs even guidance on removing moirﾽ artifacts that arise when your subjects wear clothes with regular patterns -- the nerve of them!
Kelby introduces detailed color correction techniques for correcting flesh tones, both for photos intended for print and the Web. Thereﾽs coverage of working with raw digital camera files -- a feature thatﾽs been fully integrated into Photoshop CS for the first time. Youﾽll also find techniques for editing, dodging, and burning 16-bit photos -- a topic nearly every photographer wants to know about, and few digital photography books mention.
Youﾽll find chapters on masking, special effects, sharpening, and more. Thereﾽs plenty of coverage of retouching portraits to make people look the way they wish they did. Say gﾽbye to all blemishes, dark circles, acne, gray hair, dull eyes, and wrinkles. In fact, Kelby offers fix-ups for the whole body -- removing love handles, slimming thighs, performing digital ﾽtummy tucks,ﾽ even fixing ﾽgranniesﾽ: excess skin under the arms. (There are still more tips for womenﾽs portraits later, when Kelby turns to sharpening.)
Thereﾽs a full chapter on photographic special effects: everything from blurred lighting vignettes to added motion, replacing the sky to layer masking in collages. In this chapter, Kelby also introduces Photoshop CSﾽs new Photomerge feature for building seamless panoramas. He wraps up with nine great techniques for showing your work to clients: everything from watermarking to web proofing, and sending complete portfolio presentations. If your images matter, Scott Kelby is writing for you. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Scott Kelby is one of those rare authors who not only knows his topic-Photoshop cs-backward and forward but also knows how to distill it into the need-to-know essentials that the rest of the world is interested in. In these pages, Scott cuts through the bull to show you how to make the transition from traditional to digital photography using the best image manipulation software available today: Photoshop cs. You'll find full-color, graphically rich project-based examples of every key step in the digital photography process-from experimenting with camera settings to capturing and manipulating images, and editing, outputting, and organizing them. What you won't find is a bunch of theory or a challenge to come up with your own settings. Instead, Scott tells you flat out which setting to use, when to use them, and why. Along the way you'll learn about color correction and digital body-sculpting, how and why the pros edit in 16-bit, and more.
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