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Adobe Photoshop 5.0 for Photographers: An Illustrated Guide to Image Editing and Manipulation in Photoshop | 
 enlarge | Author: Martin Evening
Publisher: Focal Pr
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1302174
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Cdr
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 306
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0240515196
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.6869
EAN: 9780240515199
ASIN: 0240515196
Publication Date: October 1998
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Condition: No highlighting-no underlining, and clean as though it may not have been read at all. Tight binding. CD is missing Purchase and help a youth pastor with three daughters.
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Adobe Photoshop 5.0 for Photographers bridges the differences and illustrates the connections between traditional, hands-on, chemically intensive photographic processing and manipulation and its computer-based alternative. With its graphically rich examples and detailed diagrams of Photoshop 5.0's user interface, this book will easily transition users with an eye for images into the digital methodology. Adobe Photoshop 5.0 for Photographers makes no assumptions about the reader's level of proficiency with the popular software. Instead, it begins with an examination of the many means of acquiring images (the fuel for Photoshop) through digital cameras, scanners, and from CD-ROM collections for your PC. Once you've set up the necessary hardware, the book walks you through Photoshop's tools in thematically arranged sections like "montage" and "image repair and retouching." Traditional photographic savvy is well-placed throughout the book, particularly during the discussion of color-toning images (like those in sepia-toned photos) in which this book contrasts the chemical bleaching and dying method of old with Photoshop's Duotone tool. The accompanying CD-ROM includes tutorial movies related to the examples used in the book. Any "through the lens" photographer considering abandoning the darkroom for a graphics workstation will find Adobe Photoshop 5.0 for Photographers to be required reading. --Ryan Kuykendall
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 Wonderful Book for Photographers going Digital June 15, 2000
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I think this book is a wonderful overview of not only Photoshop techniques which directly apply to a photographer, but also a lot of information about the scanning,saving, and printing process. It makes the world of Digital Graphics real for a photographer. I recommend this book to photographers out there who are getting started with the digital processes. It clears the smoke.
Great Book May 12, 2000
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is a GREAT book. I've read a lot of Photoshop books about levels and curves, but this was the first book to show me how to actually use them to color correct scanned images. The other books tell you how the levels and curves work, but this book showed my how to use them to evaluate an image and then correct the image. This is also the first book that really taught me how to use the measure tool to automatically rotate an image to a level position. It's full of tips like that. I keep a pile of my most frequently used reference books next to my computer, and this is the one that's usually on the top of the pile. This is not a photoshop beginners book, but I use tips from this book all the time on all of my images.
 A flawed but useful book November 30, 1999
41 out of 42 found this review helpful
Firstly, Martin Evening is a Photoshop wizard. Unfortunately he has difficulty conveying his knowledge. Reading this book is a bit like listening to an expert mumbling away to himself about his field of expertise. You have to strain to glean the information, but it is there nevertheless. Furthermore, he has assumed an odd starting position of the reader. He assumes you have years of experience with commercial printing, and that you are familiar with older versions of Photoshop. He wastes too much space explaining how things used to work in previous versions. This book will not teach you Photoshop. Learn Photoshop (read the Adobe manual), become a power user, and then read this book (a few times to make sense of it).
can be improved in the next edition November 2, 1999
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
I think it is a very useful source of information how to use Photoshop to improve quality of scanned photographs or digital images. Unfortunately, the book has several significant drawbacks, which hopefully will be improved in the next edition. First of all, the enclosed CD-ROM does not contain the images presented in the book, so there is no simple way to get "hands-on" experience with the techniques discussed in the book. The description of the steps suggested to solve each particular problem is sometimes way too short to follow, and is difficult to memorize because you cannot reproduce the suggested steps on your computer since you do not get the tutorial files. The first half of the book, a short description of Photoshop 5 for the users of the previous versions of photoshop, is rather useless, from my point of view: I think that those who have recently upgraded to Photoshop 5 already know how to use the new features, while those who never worked with Photoshop will not understand much from that short description. Putting this all in one sentence, this book contains great material, but the presentation of it could be much better.
A Great Resource October 21, 1999
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I am finding this book to be extremely helpful. I have no idea what a previous reviewer was referring to as "oral jargon" but the use of "English" English can trip up American readers once in a while. The book does tend to be terse, I have had to re-read sections to truly understand what the author meant. Trying to use this book without a copy of Photoshop at hand to test techniques for yourself is a bad idea.The illustrations are small but extremely clear and very readable. These small illustrations are usually limited to low-density information such as sample dialog boxes. The photographic examples are produced very well. The emphasis is on using Photoshop to get photos ready for reproduction. As the author clearly states several times, correctly, very few people will ever see the original transparency or negative. They will see a print, a magazine, a calendar, etc. There is a short section on scanners but it is not complete. But then, I didn't buy the book hoping to learn about scanning techniques. The emphasis on service bureaus is extremely relevant, even for amateurs such as myself who have no intention of getting into the business. Many of the techniques and considerations required for getting a digital file ready for a magazine are the same as printing to an Epson at home. Also, most serious amateurs will not be happy with limiting themselves to home ink-jet output. They will find themselves sending digital files off to service bureaus for vastly improved results. I'd rather know how to optimize a file for a Lightjet 5000 myself than rely on the personal tastes of the machine's operator. All in all, a good job.
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