Which Photoshop book

Bertel Bolt-Jørgensen wrote:

I wan’t to buy a guidebook for Photoshop, but really have no clue which one. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

My experience has been that different books on the same topic appeal to and work better for different people. My best advice would be to visit your local bookseller, peruse all the Photoshop books that they have in stock (which should be a fair number) and select the one that seems the best *to you*.

Brian

"Bertel Bolt-J

I see alot of people mention Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book.

Bill

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:00:23 +0100, "Bertel Bolt-Jørgensen" wrote:

I wan’t to buy a guidebook for Photoshop, but really have no clue which one. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

"Bill Davis Jr" wrote in message

I see alot of people mention Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book.
Bill

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:00:23 +0100, "Bertel Bolt-J

Brian wrote:

Bertel Bolt-Jørgensen wrote:

I wan’t to buy a guidebook for Photoshop, but really have no clue which one. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

My experience has been that different books on the same topic appeal to and work better for different people. My best advice would be to visit your local bookseller, peruse all the Photoshop books that they have in stock (which should be a fair number) and select the one that seems the best *to you*.

Brian

Excellent advice. Before learning PS by books, tutorials, or workshops, determine what you intend to use PS for. Then spend your $$$ only on those applicable to your needs.

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I wan’t to buy a guidebook for Photoshop, but really have no clue which

one.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Digital imaging (with a Photoshop emphasis):

"Real World Photoshop" – Blatner and Fraser; (superb color management section, and more than you’ll ever want to know about Photoshop, written in layman’s terms)

A good book. But I won’t call it in layman’s terms. Like many other PS books, the authors fail to separate their writings between for desktop users and for pros.

"Photoshop for Photographers" – Martin Evening; (not as in-depth as "RWP", but still a classic reference book.

"Photoshop Artistry: Mastering the digital image" – Haynes and Crumpler; an *excellent* starter book, complete in its own right, with a great series of tutorials.

I much prefer Hayes’ book over Evening’s. Evening is a fashion photog and his examples are limited in that sense. His CD also does not contain all the images used in the tutorials.

"Mastering Digital Printing: The Photographer’s and Artist’s Guide to High-Quality Digital Output" – Harold Johnson; the title is fairly self-explanatory.

I only read a sample chapter from his site, and was not impressed. The image used in that chapter is not a regular photo, which is what I work on.

"Professional Photoshop" – Dan Margulis; another classic reference manual, especially if you ever want to understand RGB-CMYK workflows.

Excellent book for the more advanced users, but suffers the same problem as the Real World book above.

"Photoshop Color Correction" – Michael Kieran: somewhat like Margulis’ work, but without the emphasis on CMYK.

Margulis’ book offers more bang for the buck in the sense that it contains topics not found in any other books, e.g. how to decide which color to correct!

Other books in the same class as this group:

Katrin Eismann’s is the best for retouching and fashion photos.

Ben Willmore’s PS Studio Technique is best from a teaching point of view: explains how things really work in addition to how to do.

Buy them all and you will spend close to a new version of PS. Who is making more dough?

"Bertel Bolt-Jørgensen" wrote:

I wan’t to buy a guidebook for Photoshop, but really have no clue which one. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

OK, here’s a suggestion: If you’re looking for a book on Adobe Photoshop, you check out the Photoshop Zone web site:

http://www.photoshopzone.com

It’s a web site dedicated to in-depth reviews of books on Photoshop, featuring detailed reviews and LOTS of information on oodles of Photoshop books. It’s the most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on Photoshop books available anywhere.

There are so many books available on Photoshop (I know, I’ve got virtually all of ’em), but there’s no single book that’s always going to be "best" for everyone. There are certainly some books that are better than others, but so many different kinds of people (beginners and experts, "artistes" and propellor-heads) use Photoshop for so many different things (print, web, video, fine art, you name it), that only you can decide what’s the "best" book for you. But you can find the information that you need to make an informed buying decision at the Photoshop Zone web site.

Online for almost 10 years(!), the Photoshop Zone website was created to help Photoshop users make good, informed choices when they go shopping for a Photoshop book. Many users have found it very helpful over the years. Check it out yourself and see..I think you should find exactly what you’re looking for.

Hope that helps,

-David

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Honest, useful, detailed reviews….check it out before you go shopping for those expensive Photoshop books!

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Warren Sarle wrote:

"David H" wrote in message

"Bertel Bolt-Jørgensen" wrote:

I wan’t to buy a guidebook for Photoshop, but really have no clue which

one.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

OK, here’s a suggestion: If you’re looking for a book on Adobe Photoshop,

you

check out the Photoshop Zone web site:

http://www.photoshopzone.com

It’s a web site dedicated to in-depth reviews of books on Photoshop,

featuring

detailed reviews and LOTS of information on oodles of Photoshop books.

It’s

the most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on

Photoshop

books available anywhere. …

There are an awful lot of Photoshop books, and it would be a tremendous amount of work to review all of them, but I find it striking that this site omits almost all of my favorite Photoshop books…

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Actually, most of the books you mention are in fact reviewed there; perhaps you didn’t see them. I’m always adding new reviews, so most of the others you mention should be added fairlysoon (I have all of those you list except for the "Friends of Ed" books and the one by by Kyoung-hoon Lee & Dong-mi Kim). BTW, I tend to agree with you on most of those you mentioned.

Thanks for the feedback.

-David

The Photoshop Zone: The ultimate source for information on Photoshop books! http://www.photoshopzone.com

I used the ‘Photoshop 6 Wow! Book’. It gave me a good insight into the different filters and techniques available to me using PhotoShop. It might be a bit out of date now but it still gives you a good grounding for the basics.

Neil

Neil Smith wrote:

I used the ‘Photoshop 6 Wow! Book’. It gave me a good insight into the different filters and techniques available to me using PhotoShop. It might be a bit out of date now but it still gives you a good grounding for the basics.

Sure. All the "Wow" books are fun, which is one reason they’re so popular (they’ve been publishing this book since the days of Photoshop
2.5 or 3.0, if memory serves me). The most recent editions are for
Photoshop 7, and if past editions are any guide, it may be a while before the Photoshop Wow book is updated for CS (usually this book is updated many months after the software is released; right now it looks like the publisher is shooting for an April 04 release date, but those projections are often optimistic, so I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for The Photoshop CS Wow! Book).

There actually are two different "Wow" books for Photoshop 7 – the familiar "Photoshop 7 Wow! Book" and "Photoshop 7 One-Click-Wow!" I like ’em both – they provide plenty of instant (and nearly-instant) gratification (both are reviewed at the Photoshop Zone website).

-David

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Looking for a book on Adobe Photoshop?
Check out the Photoshop Zone with in-depth reviews and information on hundreds of different Photoshop books at:
http://www.photoshopzone.com
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