Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers: Video Training Book (Paperback)

by Chris Orwig (Author)

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Product Description
Benefit from the best of both mediums video--based training and a printed guide! Each lynda.com Video Training Book offers hours of instructor-led video instruction, complete with a step-by-step, printed book to guide readers through each tutorial. The video tutorials let readers learn at their own pace, while the book offers a complete reference, helping readers identify the video tutorials they want to watch (timecodes are printed in the book), the exercise files they need, and highlighting important keyboard shortcuts, tips, notes, and practical advice.

In Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers: Video Training Book, Chris Orwig, a professional photographer and instructor at the world-renowned Brooks Institute of Photography, shares his techniques for getting professional results in Photoshop. The video follows a photographer's digital workflow, starting with essential color management decisions and organizing images with Adobe Bridge. Readers will learn how to process Camera Raw files, enhancing tone and color, and correcting imperfections, and to prepare the images for output and client reviews. Exercise files that accompany the training videos allow readers to follow along and learn at their own speed.

This new series offers creative professionals the tools they need to get up to speed quickly and affordably—a Video Training Book is a great alternative to a weekend crash course! The Video Training Book series features the proven teaching methods of lynda.com and of authors and industry experts, such as Deke McClelland, Chris Orwig, Garrick Chow, and David Blatner, who make learning an engaging experience, bringing clarity to new or difficult concepts and software programs.


About the Author
Chris Orwig is a faculty member of Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. He is a professional freelance photographer, interactive designer, educator, and consultant. Included among his clients are companies such as Disney, Nissan, Activision, and J-Records. Yet, more important to him than his client list is his passion for photography. Chris describes this passion with the words of the great photographer Marc Riboud, “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 Pap/DVD edition (September 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321445473
• ISBN-13: 978-0321445476
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #794,610 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Only useful as a review for advanced CS3 users, October 16, 2007

By	Desert Rat (Palm Springs, CA) - See all my reviews

This DVD is a compilation of VERY SHORT videos quickly and briefly reviewing the features of Adobe CS3. Several of the videos while already short, spend half their time complimenting the contributor of the photos used. Many of the films seem unrelated to the others and indeed some seem to have been made for other courses or from previous lectures. This is not a learning text for the beginning or intermediate user but may be helpful as a review for advanced Photoshop professionals.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Photoshop CS3 for Photographers, December 10, 2007

By	L. Durbin (Sun City, AZ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I found this book with exercises quite simplistic for me. However, I believe it would be useful for me as a resource on the use of the topics discussed in the movies and the text. The shortness of the video movies would not be of great help to beginners of Photoshop. I would much rather see greater detail discussed in the videos that would be beneficial to all who may buy and use this book and videos.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money, October 28, 2007

By	J. Goldstein - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is badly put together. The first video in Section 2 starts with something about having learned about bit depth. That is not in these lessons, it is in the lessons online.The lessons in this book are taken from an online course, and many, if not all of the videos have been cut short. For example, in Chapter 4, lesson 6 he states that we will look at a picture with color noise, but we do not. Besides badly edited and sometimes unrelated videos, the videos themselves seem rather jerky.

The book, which is a Reference Guide, is worth the one star, but not worth the price I paid.

JSG