Scott Kelby, the world's #1 bestselling Photoshop author, and the man who changed the Photoshop and digital photography world with his ground-breaking, award-winning "Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers" unveils a exciting, brand new way of thinking, and working in Adobe Photoshop that will not only change the industry again, but it will change the way we all work in Photoshop forever, so we can finally spend less time fixing our images, and more time finishing them. You're about to become a Photoshop Shark! Scott has focused in and really narrowed things down to just exactly which Photoshop tools and techniques we absolutely, positively have to know, and he found that there are just seven major tools, seven major features that we have to master to enhance our images like a pro. But then he took it a step further. Out of those seven major tools, he looked at which parts or sections of those tools do we really need to master, and which parts can we pretty much ignore (in other words, he whittled it down so you're not learning parts of the tools that you're probably never going to need). Then, and perhaps most importantly, he determined exactly when and in which order to apply these seven techniques that make up Scott's amazing "Photoshop Seven Point System." But the magic of this book, is not just listing the seven tools and showing how they work. It's how they're used together, and how Scott teaches them (and makes it stick), that makes this book so unique. You're not going to just learn one technique for fixing shadows, and another technique for adjusting color (every Photoshop book pretty much does that, right?). Instead, you're going start off at square one, from scratch, as each chapter is just one photo--one project--one challenging lifeless image (you'll follow along using his the same images), and you're going to unleash these seven tools, in a very specific way, and you're going to do it again, and again, and again, in order on different photos, in different situations, until they are absolutely second nature. You're finally going to do the FULL fix--from beginning to end--with nothing left out, and once you learn these seven very specific techniques, and apply them in order, there won't be a an image that appears on your screen that you won't be able to enhance, fix, edit, and finish yourself! Plus, Scott's techniques work across a wide range of photos, and that's exactly what you'll be working on in the book, from landscapes to portraits, to architectural, to nature, from event photography to everything in between--there isn't a photo you won't be able to beat! This is the book you've been waiting for, the industry's been waiting for, and Scott's "Adobe Photoshop Seven Point System" is so revolutionary that he's officially applied for a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and this new system is only found in this amazing, ground breaking new book. Once you learn these techniques, and start applying them yourself, you'll be the next one to say--"You can't beat 'The System!'
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Misses Some Basic Teaching Opportunities:
Kelby's 7-point system for using PhotoShop is highly touted, but I haven't found the book as well written and helpful as I expected. Despite this man's reputed teaching skills, there are many things a teacher should do that are missing in this book. It certainly isn't a book for beginners to PS. He assumes you know a lot and often uses the PS lingo and if you don't know it, you have to figure it out for yourself because he leaves much of it unexplained. It also appears as if he wrote much of the book from... more info
Learning on your own - a good place to start:
I recently purchased this book after doing what I always do and searching other peoples reviews and trying to guess what would be good or not. I live in country Australia and there aren't a lot of stores to buy these types of books from so I depend on the reviews quite a lot. I am thoughly enjoying working through the book. Previously I had Photoshop 7 and the difference to CS3 is huge. Although it is more of a do what I say type of book, when you don't have a clue what you are doing it is a good place... more info
A Fun, Hands-on Toolkit Assembled by an Expert:
I went to the bookstore a few weeks ago to buy a book, as my girlfriend was working on her Dreamweaver CS3 course daily, and I really wanted to move my own Photoshop work forward, being an amateur photographer. I've been shooting for decades, picking up bits and pieces of knowledge about using the camera, and using only those pieces of Photoshop that I needed to at the time. I knew from experience that many other books teach you one thing at a time, so you end up not learning workflow, just a... more info
Easy to follow instruction and a fun read as well:
Scot Kelby's books have done more to teach me concepts of digital photograpy than any other source I have tried. His style puts the reader at ease as he authoritatively disects the complex world of digital photography.
