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	• The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) Scott Kelby New Riders Press, 2007 - 496 pages average customer review:based on 88 reviews view larger image
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Useful text

I am a fan of Scott Kelby's work, and this text is very useful to those who want to "hit the ground running" with PS CS3. The layout of the book itself could use some tweaking (there's no step 1... step 2... step 3..., just conversational dialogue and pictures), and Scott's priorities may not be yours, so break free from the need to go "front to back" and just skip to the sections you need, especially if you're already familiar with Photoshop. He does provide some useful tricks and tips and his sense of humor is, as ever, firmly intact. It's a little jarring at first when you're expecting your standard dry textbook, but once you get used to it, Scott's humor helps you actually remember what he's teaching you.

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the best straightforward approach to learning it

Kelby is the best. If you want all the mind-numbing explanation of what makes something work in PS, go elsewhere. But if you just want a guy to walk you step by step through how to get results fast without a lot of hassle, buy everything you can by Kelby.

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers

This is a very interesting and useful book. Good value as there are so many easy tips that are shown with easy to follow descriptions. I'd recomend this book to anyone who uses digital photography. Actually I have recomended this book to others, just as Matt did to me. Thanks mate, and thank you Scott Kelby (author) and Amazon. Oh, and delivery was a fortnight earlier than promised too!

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It's got a beat you can dance to!

Thanks, Scott, for a fun book that takes all the technical outta manuals! Your quick-wit draws attention and I often found myself answering the questions you were posing to yourself! Some of my favorite techniques you teach in this book are about the high-contrast b/w editing and the color with b/w. My brides are happy, their mothers are happy and that means my pets can eat for another week! Now, if you can only teach me how to dance to "Soulja Boy" for all these receptions as easily I'll buy ya a cocktail!:-)

A simple, yet seriously effective book!

This book has re-inspired me as a photographer. I have been a semi-pro photographer for about 10 years now. I dodged the digital revolution for more years than I should have. I only got into it in 2005. Before that I wouldn't even look at going digital. Until now I only used Photoshop for basic photo editing because other books I had bought just made the subject complicated. This book changed all of that. Those "complicated" techniques are illustrated beautifully in this book and the author makes it easy to duplicate the techniques outlined in the book. His approach is fantastic. He takes a photo, decides what is wrong, or right with it, and takes the reader through ALL of the steps needed to correct the photo. Then he shows you what the final product should look like.

I use this book nearly every day as a reference. If I have a photo that is underexposed, I simply turn to the section on exposure, follow the steps and I always come out with a better photo. Because of this book I am now going through all of my old photos and seeing what I can do to them to make them POP a little more and I can tell you that this book has saved some photos I thought were horrible, losses.

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Scott Kelby was honored with Professional Photographer magazine?s highly coveted 2008 Hot One Award for The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers. Here?s what Jeff Kent, the Hot One Editor at Professional Photographer, has to say about the book: ?In a how-to published by Peachpit Press, Scott Kelby, best-selling author on Adobe Photoshop, delves into CS3 to uncover the most important and useful techniques for digital photographers. Our judges liked Kelby?s direct approach with step-by-step instructions. In this new edition, Kelby shares even more secrets from the top pros.?

Shutterbug magazine chose The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers as a Top Digital Book of 2007. Here?s what Joe Farace of Shutterbug has to say about the book: ?Scott Kelby?s name on a Photoshop book is like the Dodge brand on the front of a pickup truck. You know it?s built RAM?or pixel?tough. Combining his famous twisted wit with unwaveringly straight tutorials, Kelby takes you through a detailed tour of Photoshop CS3 by showing how to use the new features. No fluff; just page after page of well-illustrated tutorials showing photographers how to get the most out of the new features, commands, and effects found in the latest version of Adobe?s flagship. It will get you up to speed on CS3?s new features faster than you can all by yourself.?

Scott Kelby, the #1 best-selling Photoshop author in the world today, once again takes this book to a whole new level as he uncovers the latest, most important, and most exciting new Adobe Photoshop CS3 techniques for digital photographers. This major update to his award-winning, record-breaking book does something for digital photographers that?s never been done before?it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly ?how to do it.? It?s not a bunch of theory; it doesn?t challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure it out on your own. Instead, Scott shows you step-by-step the exact techniques used by today?s cutting-edge digital photographers, and best of all, he shows you flat-out exactly which settings to use, when to use them, and why.

That?s why the previous editions of this book are widely used as the official course study guide in photography courses at college and universities around the world, and this new edition for Photoshop CS3 exposes even more of the top pros? most closely-guarded secrets.

Learn How The Pros Do It
Each year Scott trains thousands of professional photographers on how to use Photoshop, and almost without exception they have the same questions, the same problems, and the same challenges?and that?s exactly what he covers in this book. You?ll learn:

? The sharpening techniques the pros really use.
? The pros? tricks for fixing the most common digital photo problems fast!
? How to get great looking prints (that actually match your screen!)
? A whole chapter on the latest, most requested Photoshop special effects!
? How to color correct any photo without breaking a sweat.
? How to process Raw images, plus how to take advantage of all the new Camera Raw features in CS3!
? The portrait retouching secrets only the pros know about!
? How to add real automation to your work.
? How to show your work like a pro!

Plus a host of shortcuts, workarounds, and slick ?insider? tricks to send your productivity through the roof! If you?re a digital photographer, and you?re ready to learn the ?tricks of the trade??the same ones that today?s leading pros use to correct, edit, sharpen, retouch, and present their work?then you?re holding the book that will do just that.

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