Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers, First Edition
by Martin Evening

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Book Reviews of Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers, First Edition

Book Review: Nearly Perfect Book for using Photoshop w/ a digital camera
Summary: 5 Stars

The book is designed to address the issues that pro photographers face in reproducing and manipulating digital imagery with Photoshop 7.0, but contains a wealth of info and shortcuts that are valuable to anyone using Photoshop with the current generation of digital cameras and scanners. The author also is to be commended for the clarity of his writing, and his ability to explain the more complex concepts of digital manipulation of imagery.

I especially like the inclusion of examples generated by pro photographers using professional models, instead of the poorly lit examples that fill most books covering the use of Photoshop. The CD tutorials included with the book are excellent, as well. The information on color space and calibration in the book can be a bit daunting for new users, but they are well worth the effort to read. The example projects included in the book are very useful and cover nearly all the practical situations that most photographers might face in their work with Photoshop.

The actual book is beautifully printed on fine quality paper and the example photos are reproduced quite nicely by the folks at Focal Press. I would love a bit more on using third-party plug-ins in the next edition, but that is a minor criticism of this wonderful volume. This book represents the current state-of-the-art for improving your work with Adobe's flagship application.

While most certainly geared towards pros, the book is great for those users who aspire to those heights. Even though I've worked with digital imagery for almost twenty years, I still learned an amazing amount from this book, and consider it to be a bargain. Very highly recommended.

Summary of Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers, First Edition

Approaching Photoshop from the viewpoint of a photographer, the author places much emphasis on tools for digital image acquisition, color correction, color management, and retouching. Color management--the science, art, and voodoo of synchronizing Photoshop, the computer monitor, and the printer for consistent color reproduction--is discussed in detail. Any Photoshop veteran would agree that this is one of the most important and difficult parts of any system to configure, but Evening handles it gracefully and patiently.

This book is not written for the experienced Photoshop user, however; it's clearly aimed at the experienced photographer who may or may not have Photoshop experience. Toward that end, there are chapters that detail the nuances of file management, scanning or uploading pictures into the computer, the interface, and configuring Photoshop for optimal use.

Even those with Photoshop experience should flip through every page, though. The book includes something informative on virtually every topic and tool, and to turn a page without glancing through each paragraph would mean letting important information pass by without a glance. No shortcuts were taken either with the enclosed CD-ROM, which includes 14 QuickTime movies demonstrating techniques taught in the book. Also on the CD-ROM are PDF files of some of the techniques, along with the source images used for many of the projects.

Any professional photographer or digital image artist can find countless tips, tricks, and techniques throughout, making Adobe Photoshop 7 for Photographers an important asset and a valuable addition to a library. --Mike Caputo

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