Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers, First Edition [Paperback]

Martin Evening (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 20, 2002

Martin Evening's award-winning Adobe Photoshop for Photographers titles have become must-have reference sources - the only Photoshop books written to deal directly with the needs of photographers. This book contains a wealth of invaluable practical advice, with even more hints and tips to help you achieve professional-looking results.

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers begins with an introduction to working with digital images, providing essential, up-to-date information on everything from scanning devices to color management and output issues.

Practical workshops show you how to master the essential techniques, with full coverage of all that's new in Photoshop 7.0, including: improved retouching techniques with the Healing Brush and Patch tool; removing color casts with the new Auto Color image adjustment feature; navigating, sorting and managing your photographs with the enhanced File Browser option; and how to save as many custom palette configurations as you like via the Workspace settings. Each technique is described in step-by-step detail, showing exactly which command to use, whether you're working on a Mac or PC. Detailed coverage is also given for Mac OSX users which Photoshop supports for the first time in version 7.0, as well as information on Windows XP for PC users.

The accompanying free CD-ROM contains invaluable movie tutorials and a selection of images to experiment with, surely the quickest way to learn.

If you have an initial grasp of the Photoshop basics and are looking for ways to improve the quality of your work, want to find new ideas and tutorials for the best techniques direct from a pro whilst making sure you are fully up-to-date on Photoshop 7.0, then this is the book for you!

* Benefit from Martin Evening's experience as an alpha tester and official Adobe roadshow speaker for Photoshop 7.0

* Includes a FREE CD-ROM with movie tutorials for MAC and PC

* Practical techniques explained in step-by-step tutorials so you too can achieve professional-looking results

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

There are few computer tools that have the longevity and staying power of Adobe's Photoshop, and version 7 offers improvements, fixes, and new features that any digital photographer can appreciate. Adobe Photoshop 7 for Photographers places these new features in perspective and teaches their use, plus a whole lot more.

Approaching Photoshop from the viewpoint of a photographer, the author places much emphasis on tools for digital image acquisition, color correction, color management, and retouching. Color management--the science, art, and voodoo of synchronizing Photoshop, the computer monitor, and the printer for consistent color reproduction--is discussed in detail. Any Photoshop veteran would agree that this is one of the most important and difficult parts of any system to configure, but Evening handles it gracefully and patiently.

This book is not written for the experienced Photoshop user, however; it's clearly aimed at the experienced photographer who may or may not have Photoshop experience. Toward that end, there are chapters that detail the nuances of file management, scanning or uploading pictures into the computer, the interface, and configuring Photoshop for optimal use.

Even those with Photoshop experience should flip through every page, though. The book includes something informative on virtually every topic and tool, and to turn a page without glancing through each paragraph would mean letting important information pass by without a glance. No shortcuts were taken either with the enclosed CD-ROM, which includes 14 QuickTime movies demonstrating techniques taught in the book. Also on the CD-ROM are PDF files of some of the techniques, along with the source images used for many of the projects.

Any professional photographer or digital image artist can find countless tips, tricks, and techniques throughout, making Adobe Photoshop 7 for Photographers an important asset and a valuable addition to a library. --Mike Caputo

Review

'The best colour pictures of all the tips books are to be found in Martin Evening's superb Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers - by far the best-designed of all the books here. It also has the best CD, with excellent QuickTime tutorial movies and demo images. Both newcomers and experienced users will learn from this book....'
Macworld

"Even bigger than previous versions with new pictures and some completely rewritten areas making this as essential as earlier versions. Some fantastic info from a professional photographer who's been using the program since its early days. Has a large section on colour management and some top techniques to make the most of your images. Not for the beginner, but destined to be a best seller in this genre." Ephotozine

"Just leaf through the book and you will find a couple of things you never knew. Evening's writing style is sort of folksy and converstaional, making it fun to follow along with."
Rangefinder

"...a super intro to the digital darkroom from the photographer's point of view."
Professional Photographer

"..this book is thorough, yet does not bog the reader down in hard-to-read text and uninteresting or unnecessary graphics. It is visually pleasing and indexed appropriately for quick reference."
PC Create it

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Product Details

• Paperback: 460 pages
• Publisher: Focal Press; 1St Edition edition (August 20, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0240516907
• ISBN-13: 978-0240516905
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #905,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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76 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nearly Perfect Book for using Photoshop w/ a digital camera, October 25, 2002

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This review is from: Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers, First Edition (Paperback)

A simply superb book for learning how to use Photoshop 7.0 with images from your digital camera or scanner. I've been using Photoshop since before Adobe purchased it from the Knoll brothers and would assert that this book ranks among the two or three best works ever published on Photoshop, even when compared with Adobe's own excellent Classroom-in-a-Book series.

The book is designed to address the issues that pro photographers face in reproducing and manipulating digital imagery with Photoshop 7.0, but contains a wealth of info and shortcuts that are valuable to anyone using Photoshop with the current generation of digital cameras and scanners. The author also is to be commended for the clarity of his writing, and his ability to explain the more complex concepts of digital manipulation of imagery.

I especially like the inclusion of examples generated by pro photographers using professional models, instead of the poorly lit examples that fill most books covering the use of Photoshop. The CD tutorials included with the book are excellent, as well. The information on color space and calibration in the book can be a bit daunting for new users, but they are well worth the effort to read. The example projects included in the book are very useful and cover nearly all the practical situations that most photographers might face in their work with Photoshop.

The actual book is beautifully printed on fine quality paper and the example photos are reproduced quite nicely by the folks at Focal Press. I would love a bit more on using third-party plug-ins in the next edition, but that is a minor criticism of this wonderful volume. This book represents the current state-of-the-art for improving your work with Adobe's flagship application.

While most certainly geared towards pros, the book is great for those users who aspire to those heights. Even though I've worked with digital imagery for almost twenty years, I still learned an amazing amount from this book, and consider it to be a bargain. Very highly recommended.

55 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now I Know WHY! Thanks, Martin., October 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers, First Edition (Paperback)

I've used Photoshop for several years and never felt that I knew how to get the best results as a photographer. What I saw with my eye, captured either on film or digital, worked with in Photoshop and then sent to the printer, never was exactly what I wanted. After the first six chapters, I was finally getting a handle on what I'd been puzzled by for years. By the end of the book, I had learned more than my money's worth!

If you need to learn Photoshop, get the "Classroom" book. If you want your photos to literally come alive in Photoshop and have that translated to your prints, get this book. You'll also pick up all of those handy keyboard shortcuts that make the process fly.

The book is physically a little heavy for bedtime reading, but that's a good excuse to go back to the computer and play with the new ideas and solutions, even at 3 AM.

Enjoy.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Photoshop book, March 3, 2003

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This review is from: Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers, First Edition (Paperback)

It's the best book I've found so far dealing with the unwieldly subject of PhotoShop. He covers a lot of bases and demystifies topics like alpha channels; subjects that never seem to be quite clearly explained in the other books. My only complaint is that some of the instructions seem a little vague in one or two of the examples. That said, I emailed Martin directly for clarification and he replied with an answer within 12 hours.

I think that it would be very useful for non-photographers as well.