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The Best of Adobe Photoshop: Techniques and Images from Professional Photographers (Masters (Amherst Media))

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The author of this book is a wedding photographer, and he certainly includes some stunning photographs that he has processed with Photoshop. Those photos and the contents of this book would be enough for me to hire him as a wedding photographer, but not to recommend this book to photographers who need to learn various Photoshop techniques. The prose is too conversational to be very instructive. When you are writing a book that is teaching you how to use a software package, you need to take a more instructional approach and include clear numbered steps and frequent screenshots of the application, even if it is about an artistic subject such as Photoshop and photography. A good alternative to this book is "Complete Photoshop CS2 For Digital Photographers" by Colin Smith. That book breaks down areas of Photoshop into individual lessons that you can work through like a workbook. The author walks you through each step of the process and also provides clear alternatives. He also has more variety in the photographs with which he is working than this author does.
Thus if you want a very attractive and colorful book full of nice wedding photos that have been processed with Photoshop, this book will do the trick, but I would not recommend it for the budding digital photographer looking for clear instruction.

I have to step in and beg them to stop ...all of the authors that just republish the same material over and over.
This is another example of big billing and no filling. Great images, to be sure....but they can be seen anywhere here on the internet. And in many of the previous "Best Of.." books. This is NOT...I repeat NOT a "how did they do that"...it is geared to the saps like me that thought perhaps this time ...wrong again. Pass on this...unless you want another ... "don't forget the basics book".

This book is reasonably useful to a novice, but doesn't offer much beyond that. It just seems to lack depth in its description of the techniques used.

I read it pretty much from cover to cover and learned just a little bit. I dont refer to it very often, unlike some other photoshop books that are torn and tattered from constant use.

This book "The Best Of Adobe Photoshop" has really expanded my playing field with my images. This book offers many different ideas to accomplish just about anything artistic and unique.This book is not another how to book on using Photoshop, but a guide to advance your skills. I really enjoyed and learned alot of much needed information from Bill Hurter and his contributors.

Photoshop is, of course, the electronic equivalent of the photographers darkroom. And just as in the case of a traditional darkroom, there are some practitioners that are far more skilled than others. This book shows the techniques from a series of the best Photoshoppers around.

The first half of the book (or so) is on general digital working techniques, color management and device profiling. The last half is on Photoshop Techniques. There are, of course, numerous before and after pictures to illustrate what is being done. And as with all Amherst Media books, the printing is great.

I would not consider this a beginners book on Photoshop. These guys are pros, and they tell you what they did to the picture, but they are using Photoshop terms that they simply presume that you will understand.

All in all, a beautiful book that shows the level to which you might aspire.

Sorry, but the images look really overdone. This is not a good example of Professional Photoshop use.