Artistry and Real World book

From: Quintsys
Organization: The University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Newsgroups: alt.graphics.photoshop
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:48:45 +0200
Subject: Artistry and Real World book

Hi shoppers,

Now I have some experience in ‘improving’ photographs in Photoshop (Thanks to own experiments and Scott Kelby’s book (on 7)), I think I have to know more.

A search on the Internet (Amazon and some PS-dedicated sites) it turns out that Fraser’s & Blatner’s Real World Photoshop CS, and Haynes’s Adobe Photoshop Artistry are equally high appreciated.

My question is, if it is worthwhile to have the two books next to each other, or if there is a giant overlap between the two.
My primary aim is improving photographs and some retouching, but if there are more graphic details 😉 I wouldn’t mind.

I hope someone can tell me.

Thanks in advance.

Best,

Q.

Hi shoppers,

Now I have some experience in ‘improving’ photographs in Photoshop (Thanks to own experiments and Scott Kelby’s book (on 7)), I think I have to know more.

A search on the Internet (Amazon and some PS-dedicated sites) it turns out that Fraser’s & Blatner’s Real World Photoshop CS, and Haynes’s Adobe Photoshop Artistry are equally high appreciated.

My question is, if it is worthwhile to have the two books next to each other, or if there is a giant overlap between the two.
My primary aim is improving photographs and some retouching, but if there are more graphic details 😉 I wouldn’t mind.

I hope someone can tell me.

Thanks in advance.

Q

I have PS 6 Artistry and it is a very good book. For my money, the best color correction manual I’ve come across is Dan Margulis’ Professional Photoshop. It focuses on this issue only and does a very thorough job. These two books complement each other quite well. As for Real World, I haven’t read it.

You can never have too many Photoshop books 🙂

And both of those are good. If you want a more tutorial approach, go for the Artistry book – it’s excellent at that. The Real World Series is more aimed at people who can do everything that’s in the Artistry book already.

You can never have too many Photoshop books 🙂

And both of those are good. If you want a more tutorial approach, go for the Artistry book – it’s excellent at that. The Real World Series is more aimed at people who can do everything that’s in the Artistry book already.

No one book has it all. If you are a beginner you might want to start off with one. Then grab a big shopping cart of ’em once you are getting more adventurous.