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Complete Photoshop CS2 For Digital Photographers (Graphics Series)
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Manufacturer: Charles River Media
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9781584504627
ISBN: 1584504625
Label: Charles River Media
Manufacturer: Charles River Media
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2005-11-01
Publisher: Charles River Media
Studio: Charles River Media
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Editorial Reviews:
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Complete Photoshop CS2 for Digital Photographers is packed with updated coverage and tutorials on the new features of CS2. As with the first edition, this book is designed and written especially for digital photographers. It teaches you how to organize, enhance, correct, and retouch images; how to do creative things with those images; and how to output them. Using Photoshop CS is essentially like having your own digital darkroom on your desktop, and with the help of tutorials in this book, you’ll learn how to master this powerful tool. By working through these projects, you’ll explore the new and enhanced areas of Photoshop, including more in depth coverage of Camera Raw and working with multiple images. Expanded coverage of Bridge is also provided. When printing your images, paper choices can be critical, so new coverage about color management and working with profiles for getting accurate prints is detailed. In addition, there is coverage of the new sharpening, noise reduction and retouching tools, and methods. We’ll also dive into the Lens Warp filter for fixing crooked and warped images. To help you master these tools the book teaches you professional techniques for overcoming the many challenges you’ll face and by using these techniques, you’ll be able to bring out the best from any photo, while establishing an efficient workflow. If you truly want to understand and master Photoshop CS2 for digital photography, this is the resource you need. Features: * Provides in depth resource for digital photographers * Includes detailed tutorials that explore and explain the why behind tools and techniques * Details start-to-finish instruction for organizing and renaming pictures in Bridge, processing multiple RAW images, removing blemishes, and adding special effects * Provides updated coverage of new features, tools, and techniques, includeing Lens Blur with a custom depth map, changing the color of an object within an image, Patch tool, Red Eye tool. Spot healing brush, Boise Reduction Filter, and more * Includes advanced topical coverage from using curves histograms and eyedroppers, correcting and enhancing color and tone, to using LAB mode for correction, sharpening, and removing grain * Covers everything from retouching faces, to using reature like Vvanishing Point and Lens correction * Teaches special effects techniques for turning photos into beautiful paintings and merging multiple images seamlessly into collages and then creating frames to display these works of art On the CD * All tutorial images * Five video files from PhotoshopCafe - Adobe Bridge Overview - Using Shadow/Highlight - Reducing Grain with New Reduce Noise Filter - Swapping Faces with Advanced Match Color - Using the new Vanishing Point System Requirements: Windows Intel Pentium III or 4 processor, Microsoft Window 2000 Windows XP, with necessary service packs for running Adobe Photoshop CS2, Macintosh Power PC G3, G4, or G5 processor, Mac OSX v. 10.2 or higher. Both systems require 192 MB of RAM (256MB recommended)., 280 (PC) 320MS (Mac) of available disk space, color monitor with 16 bit color or greater, video card, 800 x 600 or greater monitor resolution, CD-ROM drive, Internet Connection, and Adobe Photoshop CS2.
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Summary: Best book of Photoshop I've read
Comment: I've read several books about Photoshop (6, 7, CS3) this is the best. Chapter 1 really helpful about RAW that I didn't find it in other book I've already had. People who just start to jump into Photoshop will find this book very helpful.
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Summary: Photoshop CS2
Comment: I was really surprised this was such an excellent book. Usually I just read the chapters I am interested in , but I read this whole book--it was just so instructional and one that I will keep close to the computer for reference book.
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Summary: An Okay book for Photoshop novices
Comment: This book has a lot of good information in it, but is not well written. You may be halfway through a paragraph before you get to the topic sentence and figure out what the author is talking about. It often takes a second or third trip through a paragraph to figure out what it's about. The author also is not consistent with his word usage. I've found as many as three or four different words used for the same thing. For instance luminosity and brightness are used interchangeably, sometimes on the same page or even the same paragraph. So, using the book can be frustrating, though the author clearly knows Photoshop and I have learned a lot from the book.
The book does not mention or discuss some of the neatest features of Photoshop CS2 including some of the Automate features such as Merge to HDR (high dynamic range). This feature combines an underexposed and an overexposed picture into one high dynamic range image (bright areas are not washed out and dark areas are not black). This is an amazing capability that is not mentioned.
I would buy this book again, but only after searching diligently for one that covers the same scope or more and is better written. Actually, I'd probably get a book that covers CS3 as well, and hopefully indicates where features are unique to CS3. Or maybe just a CS3 book if you are going to upgrade. I understand the upgrade to CS3 is well worth the price even though it is now $200. Ease of use alone makes CS3 valuable to novices from what I've read.
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Summary: Good Addition for Photoshop Middle Skill Users
Comment: Mr. Smith's book is well illustrated and supported by the accompanying CD (images to work with that are in the book). His explanations are clear to the Photoshop user and he does explain some terms, as in methods of cropping and re-sizing an image and which method is suited for which type of image), file formats of images, and other areas like the applications under adjustments that I had not used until I began working with the book.
I have found some techniques that are similar to other authors (Scott Kelby, in particular, whose books I have enjoyed quite a lot), and that was part of my interest in purchasing the book-to broaden my reference library with people aside from Kelby, Deke McClelland, and some folks on-line like Earth-Bound Light and Photography, etc). I recommend purchase. Readable, well cross-referenced, and helps deliver results.
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Summary: Excellent
Comment: Excellent training material. I would also recomment The Photoshop CS2 Book For Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby. The combination is outstanding.
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