The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers

The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers
by Scott Kelby

The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers
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Author: Scott Kelby
Brand: Peach Pit Press
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-28
ISBN: 0321330625
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Peachpit Press

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Book Review: Nice and Easy
Summary: 5 Stars

The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers is exactly what I hoped for when I bought it based upon its many favorable reviews. It always helps me when I read product reviews to know something about the reviewer so that I can determine if his or her review is likely to be helpful to me. As a result, my ideal reviewer is someone who is fairly similar to me as far as my photograpy, carpentry, mechanical, etc. skills are concerned. So here goes. I have been doing basic point and shoot digital photography for a number of years, primarily because point and shoot was about all I had time for. I am now retired and have had the chance to get into photography a bit more. I recently took the plunge and bought a Nikon Digital SLR but found myself again being a somewhat lazy and using a very good camera with a lot of options as just another point and shoot camera. Feeling a little guilty for having shelled out a fairly substantial amount of money and not taking advantage of its capabilities, I started to mess around the camera's various settings and different lenses. The results were interesting, but I certainly didn't feel that I had made much progress. Then I found out about CS2 and a new world opened up to me. Success in that new world was not instantaneous, however. As a rank amateur, I found CS2 daunting and intimidating. As people like me are wont to do, I started looking for guide books. The first CS2 book I bought advertised itself as a very easy to use visually attractive manual. It was neither, so I set it aside and almost set CS2 aside as well. After doing some internet research, I stumbled upon Scott Kelby's CS2 Book for Digital Photographers. What a find it has been. While I still don't understand very much about how CS2 actually works, I am now doing things with my digital photos that I thought were reserved only for pros. I am amazed at how effectively I am able to take some my pretty poor quality digital pictures and make them into very acceptable images. Kelby's writing is very clear, light, and airy and avoids a lot of jargon. I totally agree with the other reviewers who have complimented Kelby for his suggesting actual settings so you can try the same techniques that he used in manipulating his own pictures. It really is one of the best things he does for us beginners. I have used his suggestions to convert some of my color pictures into black and white with truly wondrous results. I look at the pictures and find it hard to believe that I took them. In some reviews I read, the book was criticized as being too basic and not providing enough advanced techniques to meet the needs of pro photographers. That may well be so, but if you are a CS2 beginner or only moderately advanced, I think you will be very happy with this book. And even for you advanced folks, Scott gives enough information that you can take off and delve much more deeply into the world of CS2 possibilities if you so desire and your skill level permits. But for the rest of us, this book is very good one stop shop for getting a lot of bang for the CS2 buck. I recommend it highly. I could probably do with a little less of Scott's efforts at humor. However, I admit to chuckling a little, but it could be used a bit more sparingly.

Summary of The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers

Scott Kelby, the 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 CS2 techniques for digital photographers.

 

This major update to this 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  version of this book took the digital photography world by storm.

 

But now, his new CS2, version is even bigger, even better, and exposes even more of the pros most closely guarded secrets, including a special chapter which shows, for the first time ever, step-by-step how to how to set-up Photoshop's color management. He does it by throwing out all the theory, all the techno-babble, and all the confusing charts and graphs and instead just shows you exactly what you need to do (and 

nothing more).

 

LEARN HOW THE PROS DO IT

Each year Scott trains thousands of professional photographers 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 (there's an entire chapter on, just this!)
  • The pros tricks for fixing the most common digital photo problems fast!
  • The step-by-step set-up for getting what comes out of your printer to match exactly what you saw on screen
  • The retouching secrets of how the pros retouch portraits
  • How to process raw digital camera images (plus how to take advantage of all the new Camera Raw features of CS2!)
  • How to color correct any photo without breaking a sweat (you'll be amazed at how easy it is?once you know the secret)
  • A whole chapter on the latest, most requested Photoshop special effects
    How to reduce noise, deal with lens problems, avoid halos, and more
  • 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 this is the book for you.

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