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Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks Bible | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen Romaniello
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 281222
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0470102640
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780470102640
ASIN: 0470102640
Publication Date: May 7, 2007
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Product Description
Add sizzle to your images with these invaluable tools. If you're using Photoshop without working with channels and masks, you're missing out on some of the most powerful and creative features Photoshop CS3 has to offer. Let this comprehensive reference teach you to use these valuable tools the way professionals do. Create dazzling composites, speed your workflow, get awesome color--it's all here and more with step-by-step instructions, techniques, and examples. If you want to tap the full potential of Photoshop channels and masks, this striking full-color Bible is the book you need to succeed.You'll learn to: - Harness channels and masks for faster workflow.
- Unravel the secrets of creating, mixing, and converting digital color.
- Add lighting effects, 3D, and other channel pyrotechnics.
- Create composite layer content with advanced blending.
- Reveal, conceal, and refine your images with layer masks.
- Combine selections from single and multiple documents.
- Posterize, create textures, correct faded images, and more.
- Use type masks to add an artist's sparkle to the text.
- Work with soft-edged selections.
- Select and composite transparent shadows.
- Blend layers.
Inside, you'll find brilliant full color throughout, including hundreds of color screen shots and examples. Order your copy today!
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 Does the job October 10, 2008
As already stated, this book doesn't get going until you are most of the way through, a book on channels and masks shouldn't have to describe all the other nuances of photoshop especially as one shouldn't be diving into this area unless they already have a basic understanding of all the tools and bridge etc to begin with. However when it does get down to it, it does it well and I would still recommend it if you are a novice.
As for the negative on Windows comamnds and the lack of Mac commands, come on! You only need to know two things to do it both ways already, Control=Command and Alt=Option/Alt key!! I for one am tired of reading the lines "Command on Mac, Control on PC" when every shortcut key gets mentioned in a book lately, just state the command equivalents at the beginning and get on with it!
 Many, Many Missing Steps March 30, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had really high hopes for this book at first, because it had a lot of pictures and step-by-step tutorials in it. The instructions *seemed* clear enough at first, but I'm now on page 335 and have grown increasingly frustrated with the left-out steps in the tutorials. I have only been able to duplicate about 35% of the tutorials; the others leave key steps out, and with my limited knowledge I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. There are sample images throughout the tutorials, and the some of the images don't match the instructions that are given. It's very frustrating.
Another reviewer is correct in that the book doesn't come with a CD or provide online images so that one can follow along step-by-step, without coming up with one's own photos, and some of the images needed have certain prerequisites that make it difficult to just come up with a photo on the fly.
I'm still trying to muddle through this book but I'm just as confused as ever by masks and channels.
 A pick any serious Photoshop library can't miss. October 5, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Stephen Romaniello's PHOTOSHOP CS3 CHANNELS AND MASKS BIBLE probes the heart of Photoshop's strength - and one of its potentially most confusing aspects. From using channels and masks for faster workflow and understanding how digital color is converted to working with single and multiple document selections and layering masks, this is a pick any serious Photoshop library can't miss.
A Comprehensive look at channels and masks. August 18, 2007
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
When I first opend the book I was a bit dismayed as it seemed like a basic review of Photoshop information. This was true for about the first 145 pages or 30% of the book. Once I arrived at the channels and masks area, I found the book that I was looking for. The remaining 70% of the book, almost 350 pages, covered all aspects of channels and masks. There was significant information regarding power selections and the creation of masks, as well as clipping masks and the creation of selections in channels. Mastering channels and masks pushes the Photoshop user to the next level in terms of being a power user.
No images with the book - Waste of a book August 8, 2007
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
The book does not come with the images used in the book. You cannot follow along and work on the images.
THIS BOOK is a COMPLETE WASTE of time without the images.
Who thought leaving out the images was a good idea?
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