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Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Voices) | 
 enlarge | Author: Scott Kelby
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 1111
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0321501926
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780321501929
ASIN: 0321501926
Publication Date: October 26, 2007
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Product Description
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!'
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 Can't believe the results I am getting!!! May 5, 2008
This book is different than any other "how-to" book I have ever seen. You download lesson pictures off Scott's website and you do what he does with each picture. It is like you are sitting in the same room. You follow his plain English directions-with pictures--and you do the exact things he is doing in the book and you end up with amazing pictures...I never knew learning Photoshop could be easy!!!
Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 April 29, 2008
Good product. I recommend everybody who uses Photoshop. Many possibilities
what i do not know beforehand. It takes time to learn this book.
4th book of his April 26, 2008
This is the 4th book of Scott Kelby that I've purchased. I find his books informative, written well without being so over the top technically and always interjected with his quirky sense of humor. I think you need to have basic knowledge of Photoshop CS3 because I find myself referring back to his CS3 book if I get stuck on a step in the lesson. His methods can save a less than impressive photo.
 Cutting through the confusion April 21, 2008
I found the 7 Point System to be a great way of cutting throught the confusion of Photoshop and getting down to the basics of improving the photograph. I am relatively new to Photoshop and all the other books I've read on this topic lost me after the first few chapters. This book allows you to dive right into it by offering 7 common functions that seem provide the most significant improvment to a photograph. I find myself going back to previous sections in the book to improve upon what I have already learned. A great book that I would recommend to any newbie to photoshop.
Some great techniques and some overworked images April 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been using this book for a while and have improved my photo editing skills. Kelby offers some useful recipes for fixing or enhancing photos and he offers methods for adjusting both RAW and jpeg images. After learning the basics of Photoshop it's always helpful to have a manual that will take you through an entire process, so a workflow not just a trick can be learned. Scott Kelby's clear and conversational style works well here as does the the wealth of intermediate step photos.
Many of the end product photos look a bit too obviously Photoshopped. I suppose that's useful as a teaching method, overemphasizing the end result to illustrate how much an average image can be enhanced. I wouldn't want to display them with my name on them, but did learn a lot working through the examples. After understanding the workflow it's pretty easy to tone down the edits to achieve subtler results.
As with more targeted and specialized Photoshop-for-photo-editing books this assumes that the reader has a reasonable familiarity with Photoshop. There is no general introduction to the program. That's fine buy me as it keeps the weight and presumably cost down, and I consider it a useful addition to my library.
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