Margulis is essential if you do print (prepress) work
Eismann is seminal. Gold standard.
Willmore and Monroy make my lists because they don’t just tell you how, but why it works. Both, BTW, are excellent teachers live .
Russell Brown, OTOH, is a great teacher live but his gonzo style doesn’t work half as well in print.
Giordan’s book is just so freaking pretty– the prettiest PS book I’ve seen in ages– and if you can drag your eyes away from the pictures, the content is there, too. It can be a trifle pretentious at times, but you can forgive it because it is so beautiful.
Down and Dirty has too many bad jokes and too little new and interesting info for my taste. It felt…..tired…. and like it was trying WAY too hard to be cute.
GlitterGuru is 20 miles of bad road. I can’t remember a book I liked less. The sexualized images of young children are IMO inappropriate and truly creepy.
I read Caplin the other day— some really good info in there, nicely laid out… there’s something about it that bugs me, but I can’t put my finger on it. Think it might be a UK/US syntax and pacing thing, so I’ll give it a week and pick it back up and see if I like it better when I’m less tired.
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Hecate wrote:
On Thu, 06 May 2004 16:22:22 GMT, "Brooklyn NYC" wrote:
"Larry Cook" wrote in message
I am looking for a book that will show me how to do things in Photoshop CS. Specifically I am looking for a reference that has examples of effects, operations, etc. and the steps to perform them. For instance: How to cut out a subject of one picture and place it in another. (I don’t need to know how to do that , it is just an example.) I don’t want a course in Photoshop just a reference that I can consult when I am trying to figure out how to do a thing.
Larry Cook
Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book
Photoshop CS Killer Tips by Scott Kelby and Terry White
Photoshop CS Down and Dirty Trick by Scotty Kelby
Those are a few good ones.
And if you don’t want to support Scott Kelby’s retirement fund… 😉
Adobe Photoshop for Photographers by Martin Evening
How to Cheat in Photoshop by Steve Caplin
Photoshop Restoration and Retouching by Katrin Eismann
Agreed with Eismann, but also add books by Barry Haynes, Bruce Fraser, and Dan Margulis. Compared to these books, Kelby’s books are jokes. To make up for the lack of scope, details and insight, Kelby filled his pages with huge blank areas. I feel sorry for the fallen trees.
