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 enlarge | Author: Scott Kelby
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
List Price: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 3585
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
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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 Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Photoshop CS3 March 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found the Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Photoshop CS3 book, very interesting, and very useful. I have not finished the book as yet, but by the time i had done the first 2 lessons, i could already see a marked improvement in some of my own photographs for their originals.
 Could be a FIVE, but! February 27, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I really want to give Scott a five, because I am a big fan of his work and educational products. The only problem I have with this book is some of his steps take a lot of work with mask and then painting with a brush..something I hate to do because it takes a lot of time to get it right and I would rather be out shooting.. this really is a book to fix problem images.. my goal is to correctly expose and not have to spend so much time in photoshop.. with that said.. his techniques produce WONDERFUL pictures, and many of his steps have been added to my workflow.. I want to give a 5, I just cant!! I use the sharpening and the LAB mode boost on all my pics...
He has done it again February 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have just finished the first eight lessons and find it most informative and have picked up many points that make CS3 the best yet. The lessons take you to areas that you have used only a little or maybe not at all and make you want to keep digging deeper into the program. As for the humer, that's Scott and for those who don't like it that's called Too Bad. This is a new way of teaching and I think it's great.
A digital darkroom compass. February 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have read Mr Kelby's boks guiding folks like myself working with Adobe digital editing software beginning with my first purchase to help me with Elements 2 or 3. To put it simply, this is the book that surpasses his previous works (and the works of other fine writers with similar purpose guiding photographers through Adobe software) to a substantial level of effectiveness in purpose. Each title I have read and used has helped. This book works better for me by taking the software and pointing to some fundamental pieces of digital editing that helps transform an image into its greatest potential, as art. It is not replication of the 21 lessions that count toward this achievement, it is the use of the 7 points as needed with a photograph (continuously stated by Kelby in this and his other books...other authors in this medium I've read as well) that make this work so valuable. I just had not "gotten it" as clearly until now.
Mr. Kelby has always helped in his previous works. Adobe, for that matter, has always been working to make their software more helpful to the photographer and the graphic artist. Kelby has poured forth an excellent piece of help with his "7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3" book.
I recommend it highly.
 The "System" is not much of a system February 17, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The main problem with this book is that "The system" is not much of a system. The author doesn't follow a consistent approach for every photo. He shows you steps that work for his specific photos in the book but doesn't really explain why. With his 7 techniques he sometimes skips or changes the order of one of them but doesn't really tell you why. For example, for colors adjustments, sometimes he uses Lab Color Mode, sometimes he does it in Camera Raw and sometimes he fixes it with the Hue/Saturation command. Since not much explanation is given, I don't know what is the best method to use for my own photos. So in the end, without the explanation of why, you do learn 7 techniques you could use but don't which ones to use, the workflow order, or even the values to set each parameter. I did get some results but it was most trial and error and a lot of guessing...
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