Over 50 small sections show you a focused approach to doing specific tasks. Working through the reference chapters and the hands-on, step-by-step exercises, you gain an in-depth understanding of complex topics such as calibration and ICC color management. You master the relationship between Photoshop¿s tools and learn how to get the most out of these tools for greater creativity and performance. The book will guide you to create and output stunning artistic images for a myriad of professional uses, including use for the web. In short, Photoshop 6 Artistry will instruct the reader how to get the most out of Photoshop 6.
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Barry Haynes, Apple pioneer and photographer with over a decade of experience working with digital images, has been using Photoshop since it was created. His work and experience shows in this latest addition to the Photoshop Artistry series. The writing is clear and thorough. Each section covers some aspect of Photoshop in detail, whether it's explaining formats like TIFF and PDF, gleaning information from histograms, or using levels and curves for color correction. Within the explanations are exercises set in bold type (with project files on the CD-ROM), giving the text the one-two punch of "learn" and "do."
The first section goes over tools and functionality; section two shows color correction and how to create a "master digital image"; and section three covers a myriad of color, layer, and selection techniques using chapter-length hands-on projects, including one that covers restoring old photographs. Screen shots are plentiful, as are sample photos and other graphics, and the captions are a skimmer's delight--readers can learn a lot without even reading the full text.
Those who own previous editions will want to know what's new in this book. In addition to rewriting examples found in Photoshop 5 & 5.5 Artistry to reflect all the new features of Photoshop 6, the author has added new techniques he's learned from printing and selling his own art since the last book. There are several new examples that cover Photoshop 6's new color-management and color-calibration features. Also, this latest book has been reorganized so that it can be used as a classroom textbook. The CD-ROM has an improved version of the author's ArtistKeys--automated sequences, assigned to function keys, that save time by doing common tasks like opening or closing palettes and converting file formats.
The book works well for Photoshop-experienced professional designers and photographers, but would also be a good choice for a beginner. If you come to Photoshop by way of Photoshop 6 Artistry, you'll surely be a nimble expert by the end of the book. --Angelynn Grant
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This may be the hottest book on the market right now for digital photography professionals and for advanced-level students of Photoshop. A best-seller since it first published for Photoshop 4, the Photoshop Artistry book has become a standard text in many classrooms: 2-year programs, 4-year-programs, professional- and continuing educations, and seminars. When author Barry Haynes isn't doing contract work as a professional photographer and digital imaging consultant, he gives several small (and well-worth the expense) seminars from his studio in Corvallis, Oregon each year. As such, he refines Photoshop Artistry's tutorials for each rev of the program. Wendy Crumpler, an award-winning author and also a digital-imaging consultant and artist, partners with Haynes in this and every version of Photoshop Artistry. Yes, it's a book dense with information. No, it's not for newbies. But if you're serious about getting the most out of Photoshop as a digital imaging tool, you've got to consider owning this book.
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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
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An Absolute Must-Buy for Photo Editors!!,
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Being both a professional graphic designer & webmaster and a part-time photography buff, I get the opportunity to use Photoshop regularly. With the introduction of Photoshop 6, Adobe added quite a few new features that will really interest those of you who are into editing photos. Barry Haynes has published previous versions of this book, which I must admit, I had never read. Now after having had the opportunity to read this one, I have to say, I am sorry I didn't read his books sooner. This book rocks. It contains a TON of information not only about photo editing, but also the using of Photoshop to a truly advanced level. I think the reason this book is so extremely useful is due to the fact that the author is a professional photographer. This means he has personally practiced what he is preaching. The layout of the book is easy to read and done in full color throughout. The book is part regular instructional text and part hands-on projects using materials found on the accompanying disc. Both the instructional material and the projects are extremely detailed. While the book assumes a level of knowledge, it does however work really hard to help you gain that professional edge. After reading this book, I felt both inspired and prepared to push some serious pixels. I have to warn beginners out there that this will blow them all away. This is definitely an intermediate to advanced book. If you are a beginner, I suggest you try Scott Kelby's Photo-Retouching Secrets (ISBN: 0735711461). Once you master that, run to the store and buy this book. This said, here is a run down what the book contains: SEC. 1 - ESSENTIAL TOOLS & FUNCTIONS (107 pp) Navigation, Preferences, Tool Palette, Picking & Using Color, Selections, Paths, Masks, Channels, Layers, Layer Masks, Adjustment Layers, History Palette, History Brush, Snapshots, Transform Images / Layers / Paths / Selections, File Formats / Compression and Automation with Actions. SEC. 2 - COLOR CORRECTION AND CALIBRATION (100 pp) Color Corrections Tools, Digital Imaging and the Zone System, Color Spaces, Device Characterization, Color Management, Color Preferences, Monitor / Scanner / Printer Calibration, Image Resolution, Scanning Film, Digital Cameras and Steps to Create a Master Image. SEC. 3 - OVERALL COLOR CORRECTION, SELECTION & LAYER TECHNIQUES (52 pp) Detailed Lasso, Quick Mask, Color Selection Techniques, Overall Color Correction, Correcting a Problem Image, Replacing Color, Color Range, Mask Blur for Selection, Color Change and Color Matching Images. SEC. 4 - ADVANCED COLOR CORRECTION AND RESTORATION TECHNIQUES (26 pp) Duotones, Complex Color Correction and Retouching, Restoring Old Photos, Colorizing B&W Photos, Combining Bracketed Photos or Two Scans to Increase Dynamic Range, LAB Color Correction and Using Layers to Tune Opposite Color Areas. SEC. 5 - COMPOSITING MULTIPLE IMAGES WITH LAYERS, ADJUSTMENT LAYERS & LAYER MASKS (26 pp) Basic Composting, Seamless Composites, Color Correction of People and Complex Composite Production Ad. SEC. 6 - CALCULATIONS, PATTERNS, FILTERS, COMPOSTING AND EFFECTS (82 pp) Blend Modes, Calculations, Apply Image, Layer Clipping Paths, Shape Layers, Layer Styles, Posterize, Bitmaps, Textures, Patterns, Using Built in Filters & Effects and Considerations for Multimedia, Premiere, Director, After Effects and the Web. SEC. 7 - IMAGES FOR THE WEB AND MULTIMEDIA (30 pp) Differences in Creating for the Web and 8-bit Color, Optimizing Images for the Web & Multimedia, Creating Your Own Web Photo Gallery and Creating Slices / Animations / Rollovers in ImageReady.
56 of 60 people found the following review helpful:
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Most Amazing Photoshop Book!!!!,
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It is by far the most comprehensive Photoshop book for touching up and manipulating photographs out in the market.Normally, Photoshop is used for three purposes: If you belong to the first category, you simply will not be able to buy a better book than this. Most how-to-books are filled with large illustrations and words in big fonts. Photoshop Artistry, on the other hand has tons of rather small full color photographs on every page with tiny texts. If the Photoshop 6 Artistry was layed out like the typical how-to-books, it will become a 3000-5000 page text book. It is that packed with useful information. The book is well written and easy to understand by most beginners to the advanced photoshop user. I can see how some (not all) absolute photoshop beginner might be overwhelmed by the depth and the breadth of the information in the book. My recommendation to the beginner is to buy this book first. And if you have trouble understanding it, buy an intro book and read that first and come back to Photoshop Artistry. Your money will not be wasted by buying this book first because you will find yourself coming back to this book over and over again. (A good beginner book I recommend is Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Class in A Book by Adobe Press) Again, if you are using Photoshop to manipulate photos there is no better book than this. Many photographers I met online consider this book as the Bible of digital imaging. Now I understand why. On the other hand if you are using Photoshop for web layouts, your needs may be better served by another book.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent, thorough, well worth it ...,
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This is an excellent book. It is thorough and well-written. It's definitely for the photographer, rather than the graphics artist. It covers the underlying details you need to understand before you can be successful in making your photos into what you want them to be. I had the predecessor (PS 5 Artistry), and was happy to get the updated edition. This is the kind of book that you'll read many of the sections over and over. Not because they're hard to understand, but because they are so thorough and complete. Photoshop is a complex tool, and as you learn more about one area, you'll realize you can go back and better understand other areas of the tool. The information density is very high in this book. The print is small but easy to read. There are a lot of words (and information) on every page. The quality of the book is very high. It is in full color, and has scores of images and screen shots. The book has two basic parts. An overview and theory part, and a step-by-step example part. The two sections are VERY complimentary. You'll get to the examples, and realize you are ready to go back and read more about the theory. All of the examples are provided on the supplied CD, including before, during and after versions of most so you can do the examples yourself, and then compare your work to Barry's. I have done most of the examples (there are many), and I was always able to understand what to do, and when I was done, I was ready to apply what I'd learned to my own photographs. I have looked at many of the Photoshop titles in bookstores, but this is the only one so far that I own. I keep looking for a better or more thorough book but I haven't found it yet. Sometimes Barry tends to be a bit conversational, as other reviews have noted, but to me this simply makes the book more enjoyable. He not only shares his knowledge, but also his experiences. It's well written and interesting, not dry. It is not filled with endless descriptions of every detail of every tool. If you want PS manual, this isn't it. But it does thoroughly explain all of the tools that you'll use for manipulating photographs, they way Barry uses them (which he does well). Barry is excited about the changes in PS 6, which at first I didn't fully appreciate, but now do after reading this book. This book is fully updated for PS 6, and includes some walkthroughs that weren't in his PS 5 Artistry book. I have been completely satisfied with PS 5 Artistry, and now with PS 6 Artistry. Enjoy!
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