Photoshop 7 Savvy with CDROM [Paperback]

Steve Romaniello (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0782141102 | ISBN-13: 978-0782141108 | Publication Date: June 15, 2002

"If subsequent releases are as good as this, the series deserves every success."
--MacFormat UK--November 2002

Savvy - n. Practical know-how.
Just about anyone who works with digital images needs to know to how to use Photoshop. But its complexity can be confounding even to experienced users. In Photoshop 7 Savvy, artist and teacher Steve Romaniello draws back the curtain to reveal the secrets behind Photoshop's power, showing you how to combine theory with practical techniques to get results that are inspirational and satisfying. Whether you're a desktop publisher, graphic artist, printer, photographer, or Web designer, if your goal is to become Photoshop Savvy, this is the book that will get you there.

Work your way through from cover to cover or zero in on a topic, whether you're managing color, retouching images, or creating Web graphics. In Hands On tutorials you'll apply your knowledge to complex real-world projects, mastering the techniques your own projects demand. A 32-page full-color section showcases numerous color-related examples. Coverage includes:

Core Photoshop Skills: selections, type, layers, paths, paint effects, alpha channels, Quick Mask, scanning, transformations.

Photoshop 7's New Features: File Browser, Healing Brush, Auto Color, new paint tools, custom workspaces, Web enhancements.

Image Retouching: Dodge and Burn tools, cloning and healing, History Brush, Dust and Scratches filter.

Color Management and Correction: levels and curves, color mapping, hue and saturation, channel mixing, CMYK conversion, printing.

Photoshop, ImageReady, and the Web: page layout, optimization, image maps, animations, rollovers.

Advanced Techniques: difficult selections, compositing, automation, duotones and spot color, advanced layering, preparing images for digital video.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"... this book will make an excellent introduction to a beginner trying to master the Photoshop learning curve." -- Adam Bell, DigitalMediaNet.com

"Photoshop Savvy is a superbly competent training source for any Photoshop user!" -- Fred Showker, The Designer's Bookshelf, Design-Bookshelf.com September 2002

"Romaniello . . .provides 688 pages of in-depth coverage like no other Photoshop book I've read before." -- Rolando Gomez, founder GarageGlamour.com September 2002

"The obvious effort, and the exceptional end-result, puts this book in a class of its own." -- Bublos.com - The Web's Favorite Book Price Comparison Site

From the Author

The immense popularity of Adobe Photoshop is in part attributable to the fact that it enables us to alter the reality of images. And who, after all, can resist the temptation to alter pictures? Photoshop 7 Savvy is for anyone who has ever unconsciously scribbled a moustache on a face in a magazine while talking on the telephone. It’s for those of us who take photographs, draw, paint, and cut and paste pictures. It’s for computer artists, graphic designers, web designers and printers. It is intended to help master the software, at whatever level you may be in the learning curve.

The focus of Photoshop 7 Savvy is to present a systematic and comprehensive guide to the tools and operations of Adobe’s amazing image editing software. It is intended to offer descriptions, explanations, and techniques that will make all aspects of the software more accessible and familiar to you without oversimplifying or "dumbizing" the information.

How you work in Photoshop will be defined by your specific output goals. In Photoshop 7 Savvy, you will find everything you need to know to use this powerful program to create and alter images for print, multimedia and the World Wide Web. The book explores the basic concepts that are fundamental to your understanding of the digital image. Each chapter contains information to help you master the Photoshop skills you need. Most chapters contain step-by-step modules, and many conclude with Hands-On projects, which will further enhance your capabilities so that you can ultimately apply the techniques to your own images.

Steve Romaniello June, 2002

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Product Details

• Paperback: 704 pages
• Publisher: Sybex (June 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782141102
• ISBN-13: 978-0782141108
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,428,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Might not be the best book for beginners, July 29, 2002

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E. Duralia (South Carolina) - See all my reviews
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I ordered Photoshop 7 Savvy because I wanted to get deep with Photoshop. While I consider myself a novice user, I have done enough work with the program to make basic manuals redundant. This book fits the bill nicely. It covers some basics and it gets more advanced as number of chapters increase. I would have given it 5 stars except for the many typos I've found. Many of the keyboard shortcuts are simply wrong and will confuse, or worse discourage, someone who is new to photoshop.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for beginners, May 3, 2003

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Todd Gak (Raleigh, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Photoshop 7 Savvy with CDROM (Paperback)

When I first got Photoshop 7 I really didn't know much about it, however after I bought the Photoshop 7 Savvy book I became much more experienced with Photoshop 7. I was able to explore new areas within the Software that I would have never discovered on my own. There are lots of good tutorials for advanced layering techniques and advanced selection tools that can be very useful for the first timer in Photoshop.

The only thing that kept me from giving this book 5 stars is the fact that it did not explore much into advanced filtering techniques. There are so many interesting effects you can create using the filtering tools and this book hardly covered any of them. Other than that this book is great.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Different, but not necessarily better..., December 15, 2002

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L. Starlight Mundy "vflytrap" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photoshop 7 Savvy with CDROM (Paperback)

As a constant "student" I am always looking for new books to give me a great handle on a program.

Photoshop 7 Savvy is not only a new book, but also one that has a somewhat different taste than most other Photoshop how-to books.
The book was quite thorough in the new features of Photoshop 7, which was the main reason behind this pruchas, and I liked the different graphics and illustrations incorporated with the lesson tutorials, but as for the set up of each lesson, I didn't find it completely effective.

I already had a fairly strong handle on the software, and was looking for a book to update me fully on Photoshop 7 since it has been a while since I have used Photoshop at all...

There is a lot of cramming information regarding features, etc, before you actually get to a tutorial to solidify the knowledge. Then, the tutorials have a tendency to be "half-completed" leaving me feeling like the teacher did the hard part before I just finished it off. Admittedly, this might be effective for a lot of people but for me, I felt that I was a little ripped off - I learned how to select in one chapter, but in the next, it had all been done for me, and the focus was on something else. Effective for quicker learning, but not for thorough application -

As for everything else, it is extremely complete when it comes to exploring features, new possibilities, etc, but I still don't feel as attached to it as I do my other favorite Photoshop books. It boils down to great content, fabulous and new tutorials, great exploration of each possibility in the software, but lack of thorough application for the user, and a lot of cramming before getting to a point where the new knowledge can be used.