Adobe Photoshop CS3 is more than just the world's most popular image-editing tool: as part of Adobe's Creative Suite, it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create graphically rich content for print, Web, motion graphics, and mobile devices. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Photoshop CS3 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them. Before they know it, users will be using the Bridge to manage their files, exploring the revamped Photomerge tool to effortlessly combine multiple images, tweaking color with Photoshop's enhanced color-correction features, and will enjoy taking advantage of Photoshop's built-in integration with Photoshop Lightroom to import, select, develop, and share their digital photos.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Refreshing:
This was a refreshing read after trying so many other irrelavant photoshop books. Chris Orwig is concise and engaging. This book gave me valuable tools and skills without the fluff that you don't really need. If you are an intermediate to relatively new photoshop user, I highly recommend this book to take you to the next level.
100 Essential Tips--A Good "Go-To" Book:
Let's cut straight to heart of this review: Do I recommend Chris Orwig's Book: Adobe Photoshop CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques (How-Tos)? Yes I do, but please read the rest of this review for a better idea of why, and to whom I recommend it.
100 Essential Techniques offers just that, 100 ideas on how to use Photoshop CS3 to accomplish a wide variety of tasks: things like, setting up your preferences and workspace(s) to meet your unique needs; color tweaking; Photoshop's integration with Bridge... more info
Everything you need to know and more in on little package:
This is an excellent series of books. I started out with Photoshop and went on to study Illustrator and Dreamweaver. Is less then a quarter of the size of all the other instructional books out ther but packs ten times of easy to read and understand knowledge. I highly recommend it!
Not exactly what I expected...:
I am new to photoshop and need it mainly to manipulate pics from my labs and retouch some of the old pics. Unfortunately, for me, the book did not deliver the goods.
It has many explanations of how to accomplish a task, BUT it never really tells you how to get to that particular toolbar in order to perform the manipulation. It just has a picture of how the toolbar is supposed to look like which really USELESS. A nice and simple "Image->Rotate Canvas->Arbitrary..." would be of incredible help, but... more info
