Adobe Photoshop CS2: Photographers' Guide [Paperback]

David D. Busch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 25, 2005 | ISBN-10: 1592007252 | ISBN-13: 978-1592007257 | Edition: 1

"Adobe Photoshop CSX: Photographers' Guide" is aimed squarely at those who want to creatively use photography to produce compelling images and who want to master all the tools available to them. The emphasis of this approach is on both traditional and leading-edge photographic techniques, and how to reproduce or enhance them in Photoshop CSX. Readers don't need to be ace photographers or Photoshop experts to create these eye-catching effects. All that's needed is this straightforward, "all-meat" book that shows how to use Photoshop CSX to enhance images with the kinds of effects people admire. This book includes a companion Web site with all of the example files and sample filters. David D. Busch is a seasoned author, photographer, and image-editing guru. The author's expertise, along the functionality of the software and the precise and easy-to-follow information this book has to offer makes this the perfect combination from which to learn this exciting and vastly growing technology.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (April 25, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592007252
• ISBN-13: 978-1592007257
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,233,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

With nearly 1.5 million books in print, David D. Busch is the world's #1 selling author of camera-specific guidebooks, and the originator of popular series like David Busch's Pro Secrets, David Busch's Compact Field Guides, David Busch's Guides to Digital SLR Photography, and David Busch's Quick Snap Guides.

Most of his hugely successful books for Nikon, Canon, Sony, Pentax, Olympus, and Panasonic digital cameras are the top-selling guidebooks for their respective camera models. His advice has been featured on NPR's "All Tech Considered."

Busch's dozens of other books devoted to digital photography include David Busch's Digital Infrared Pro Secrets and Mastering Digital SLR Photography. As a roving photojournalist for more than 20 years, he has illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. Busch has operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and upstate New York college. His photographs and articles have been published in magazines as diverse as PhotoGraphic, Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He's also reviewed digital cameras for CNet Networks and Computer Shopper.

As a writer, photographer, and contributing editor for ten magazines, he has more than 130 books and 2500 articles to his credit. A PR consultant for Eastman Kodak Company's photography divisions for nearly 20 years, Busch has published photography articles under his by-line in Popular Photography & Imaging, PhotoGraphic, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer and other photo magazines. His photos have appeared on the covers of magazines, and in both print and television advertising.

The graduate of Kent State University operated his own photo studio and was a principal in CCS/PR, Inc., one of the largest public relations firms based in San Diego, working on press conferences, press kits, media tours, and sponsored photo trade magazine articles. In addition to Kodak, CCS photography clients included Hewlett-Packard. He sold his interest in CCS in 1992 to become a full-time author, photographer, and reporter.

Since then, Busch has become one of the leading photojournalist/authors in the United States. He has had as many as five books appear simultaneously in the Amazon.com Top 25 Digital Photography Books, and when Michael Carr of About.com named the top five digital photography books for beginners, the #1 and #2 choices were his Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies and Mastering Digital Photography. Several of his digital imaging books have sold in excess of 50,000 copies.

Busch was a featured guest speaking on digital photography on Toronto's Breakfast Television show in 2005, was the keynote speaker at the Dayton Computerfest, and has been a call-in guest for 22 different radio shows nationally and in major markets, including WTOP-AM (Washington), KYW-AM (Philadelphia), USA Network (Daybreak USA), WPHM-AM (Detroit), KMJE-FM (Sacramento), CJAD-AM (Montreal), WBIX-AM (Boston), ABC Radio Network (Jonathan & Mary Show).

His work has been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Bulgarian, German, Italian, French, and other languages. his web site is http://www.dbusch.com.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A catch all that didn't., December 29, 2005

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Jafin - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Photoshop CS2: Photographers' Guide (Paperback)

The book attempts to do what many photoshop books do, cram the basics, with some technique, throw in a bit of advanced stuff and leave you with a bit of everything in the end. A majority of the photos used in the book are average. Topics which I think are crucial to the art include colour accuracy, getting the best rom RAW images, calibration, output control. All these topics were lightly touched on with no real meaty goodness.

The book feels suited towards the beginner, but I believe there are better choices

I think you'd be better of with Martin Evan's Photoshop for Photographers for a more focused, indepth book on the topic, and possibly a general book covering aspects of Photoshop, perhaps Real World Photoshop by Bruce Fraser.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good concept, bad book, July 25, 2006

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Bill Thomson "drbillthomson" (Bozeman, Montana USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Photoshop CS2: Photographers' Guide (Paperback)

I liked the idea of this book, providing people with a background in conventional photography with a book to learn photoshop. The end result is really poor though. Some of my complaints with this book are:

Commands are listed in the wrong menus. The excercises are poorly explained. But the worst for me is that at the end of an excercise he will say things like "for my final image I combined this with another version in which I had edited it to..." with absolutely no details of how this would be done. In most cases these statements actually require editing that is more complicated than what has been presented, and use entirely different techniques. So, if you are a photoshop guru I suppose you could do this, but if you are trying to learn it is useless.

Also, the photos really aren't very good. There is an example in which he refers to "brightening a scene". Of course, he doesn't mean "brightening" he means changing the colour cast, by changing the hue and saturation. His end result that he says looks "much better" is horrible. He does make the sky look good, but he winds up with a purple lake.

There are much better books out there on photoshop, keep looking...

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars taught me more about photography than photoshop, August 22, 2006

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jkl song - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Photoshop CS2: Photographers' Guide (Paperback)

Exactly what the title says. I would've learned more by just fiddling with Photoshop.