Adobe Photoshop CS3 Studio Techniques | 
| Author: Ben Willmore
Publisher: Adobe Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 33292
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0321510461
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780321510464
ASIN: 0321510461
Publication Date: December 20, 2007
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Product Description
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover the new features in CS3. In a friendly, easy-going style that's long on information and short on techno-babble, Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Ben Willmore guides you through the concepts, features that will truly make a difference in how you use Photoshop every day. He takes you from blindly following step-by-step instructions to an in-depth understanding of how Photoshop works, cutting through the fat to focus on what he considers to be Photoshop's essential features. This full-color book delivers the content in three easily digestible sections: Working Foundations, Production Essentials, and Creative Explorations, and includes a companion CD with bonus chapters and practice images so you can quickly and easily apply the techniques covered throughout. Beginning with the working foundations of Photoshop--the basic tools, palettes, layers, and masks, you'll quickly move on to real-world production techniques, such as how to sharpen scans, correct and optimize images, and use the powerful Curves and Channels features to your advantage. Finally, you'll get to fully explore Photoshop's creative potential by blending and enhancing images, creating collages, retouching photographs, colorizing, and working with filters and layer masks. By the time you finish this book, your creativity and efficiency levels should soar and you'll start to feel like you finally "get" Photoshop.
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 Ben is the best!... July 10, 2008
The author, Ben Willmore, is the hardest working Photoshop "Guru" that I know of! His head is overflowing with things to do in the "latest" evolution of Photoshop, whatever that may be (currently CS3). I have been to his seminars and buy his books FIRST when the kind folks at Adobe release another dynamite, dynamic piece of software. Ben even puts out the first "Up to Speed" book that I look for, so I don't have to rehash all the things I already know.
About this book, I have only skimmed the surface of what's available inside. If I had gone cover to cover upon receipt of this book, I think my head would have exploded long ago! Don't let the title scare you away...you DON'T need to have a "studio"! A lot of this is the same stuff you get at the seminars Ben does, only more detailed than the handouts!
In my opinion, you can't go wrong with anything written by this man. He is a wonderful speaker and author! 5 Stars!
 Not much different from Photoshop CS2 July 1, 2008
Don't get me wrong, this is a decent book but if you own the previous one on CS2 there is little to justify the purchase - hence the low rating.
Very good! February 18, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I love this book! It makes using Photoshop easy, but doesn't treat the reader like an idiot. It walks you through useful editing techniques step-by-step so that you can get the most out of Photoshop. It provides helpful examples to assist the reader in understanding the concept as well. A great purchase!
Down-to-earth review of the tools and techniques of photoshop. February 7, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is the text for an advanced photoshop class I am taking. The author explains everything in simple terms and very thoroughly. The CD that comes with the books provides all images he uses as examples so you can try the techniques along with the book or use your own pics. I am only half way through this book but I think it's definitely helping my understanding of photoshop. The only thing is that I don't think this is an advanced book, I feel that this should have been the book for last semester's beginning photoshop class. Overall: great book for starting out in photoshop.
Great info in a poorly bound book December 22, 2007
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
This is an updated version of Ben Willmore's Adobe Photoshop CS2 tome. The CS3 revisions were written by Ben Long. (Not that that really matters) Both Mac and PC keyboard commands are explained. The screenshots are all Mac OS X. PC users need not worry however as the functionality is pretty much identical between the two platforms.
Pros:
Packed with useful easy to find information.
Written in plain english. You don't need to know all of the trade words.
The CD is loaded with pictures you can use to do the lessons. Also the CD contains 5 "Bonus" chapters. (To keep the weight of the book down they say)
The bonus chapers are:
Line art scanning
Channels
Shadows
Type and background effects
Resolution solutions
Cons:
When I bought this is was listed as a hardback book but it is not. It is paperback. (I see Amazon has changed their listing)
Most of the pictures printed in the book are too small to see what the author is trying to show you.
The book has the worst quaility of paper I've seen on an Adobe printed book. The cover pages are thinner than they should be and the ends of the interior pages are cupped as if someone rolled them in a tube. Quite maddning as they are not cupped in the same direction and it makes it difficult to read.
I give this book 5 starts for content and 3 stars for the poor way the book is bound.
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