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 enlarge | Author: Dan Margulis
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
List Price: $59.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 159023
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 528
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.2
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8 x 0.8
ISBN: 032144017X
Dewey Decimal Number: 006
EAN: 9780321440174
ASIN: 032144017X
Publication Date: November 30, 2006
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 Outstanding January 8, 2008
The book is absolutely a treasure. It is not necessarily an easy book and beginners would find it difficult. However, any serious user of Adobe Photoshop should own and become very familiar with this material. Perhaps having purchased his other book Photoshop LAB Color, earlier in the year, helped me to more rapidly assimialte the material. In any event I give them both five stars.
The best there is December 15, 2007
No one is better on Photoshop or photo toning technique than Marguiles. Far beyond a "Photoshop for Dummies," Dan takes the time to explain why things work, not just what to do. Just reading the first four chapters will cover all the casual photo toner will ever need to know, but Dan goes on from there much farther into truly "professional" territory. And along the way, he can be humorous and even surprisingly philosophical.
Not for a beginner December 12, 2007
Excellent book filled with great information. Purchased as a gift for a self-taught photgraphy "nut". It was on her gift list and she was thrilled at it's content. Not for the true beginner but filled with info and instructions for someone trying to perfect this aspect of their photography.
More than just good September 13, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is more than just good, I just started reading and even though it is a lot of info it is very useful. it doesn't just give you a couple of step by step how to's but it really gets into how things work for you to understand why they look the way they look and what you can and should do about it. It also tells you what you should not do about it. I think this book is recomended to those who are more than just serious about this stuff, it is heavy reading and if you're just trying to fix up a couple of pictures here and there you'd be better of with something less informative. In my case I also what to say, I'll take a book like this one over scott Kelby's any day of the year. There's to those who still don't know it: you don't need to be the president of NAPP to know your stuff.
If you want to be a Photoshop Master you need to have Margulis' books in your library September 3, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Convoluted, complex and long-winded is the signature style of Margulis and if that bugs you don't get the book. However, you can't beat the incredible information he delivers in every thing he publishes. He delivers in this version. In a review of his LAB book, I wrote that Margulis is to Photoshop what Ansel Adams was to Fine Art B/W photography. Adams explained in great detail the zone system, toning, etc. etc. ....getting the full range of B/W tones in a photograph in his books: the Print, The Camera, and others. Margulis does the
same except in the digital world it is known as CMYK, LAB and RGB , channels, blends, sharpening, etc. etc.
If you want cookbook information, quick and dirty "how to" and you can't get past anything more difficult than the sliders in the Lightroom or Aperature softwares then get Scott Kelby's books, but note that Kelby references Margulis' books throughout his books.
A previous reviewer said that he didn't want to bother with Margulis because as a "pro photographer he found this book heavy going and irrlevant as it is CYMK based and photographers use RGB." I can't believer this guy even admitted he was a pro photographer. Maybe sometime in the future when print is no longer available and all there is is web and computer screens this phrase might be true, but if you are working in the digital arena, regardless of whether is is photography, graphic arts, or illustration, knowledge of CMYK is necessary....CMYK are the basic inks in all print machines including our printers. It was through Margulis books that i finally "got it" .....the concepts of RGB and CMYK. This info. has helped me enourmously in all of my digital classes: Illustrator, Flash, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver etc.
I have only two gripes about his book: I am so happy that he has updated most of the book, but he replaced the image of the face in his "guess the different channels" exercise (page 12, 4th edition) with an image of a flower (page 12). This excercise is the basis and starting point for the concepts thoughout the rest of the book. A face is familiar to anyone, but that flower!!!.....looks like an unreconizable alien glob...a not very helpful example.
Second, I am disappointed that there are no margins. I wrote in one of his websites, to please please place large margins throughout his books for notes. A big 2 to 3 inches of blank space placed around the text would help us photoshop zealots get through the intense learning process that is a Margulis book.
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