Photoshop Workflow Setups: Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography [Paperback]

Eddie Tapp (Author)

Book Description

Series: Workflow Setups | Publication Date: August 8, 2006

Leery of 800-page books that try to teach you everything about digital photography? You should be. Rather than delve into the nuances of efficient workflow, color management, or creating spectacular enhancements, these doorstop volumes tend to gloss over key information in an attempt to cover everything.

Our new book series, Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography, is different. An award-winning photographer, Eddie is acknowledged as one of the premier trainers of digital imaging in the world, a highly sought-after expert who educates many corporations, studios and agencies. In this series, he brings his teaching experience to bear on technical issues in six focused and affordable books on digital photography that offer one topic per volume with answers that are quick to find when you need them most.

The first book, Photoshop Workflow Setups: Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography, offers a step-by-step approach for configuring key areas of Adobe Photoshop CS2 to create an efficient, visually uncluttered workspace. Photoshop has so many different work areas and tools that it can become confusing or even intimidating for digital photographers to use in a production environment-whether you're a serious amateur or a working professional.

This highly-visual, well-designed book presents Photoshop's vast collection of menus, palettes, and tools, showing you not only how they work, but how they should work for you and your specific needs. With his easygoing and authoritative style, Eddie demonstrates how to:

• Create an efficient workspace by using the "arrange" menu and setting the screen view
• Become familiar with palettes for layers, channels and paths; history and actions; color, swatches and styles; and more
• Set preferences for file handling, guides and grids, memory and image cache, and more
• Customize keyboard shortcuts and menus
• Work with Adobe Bridge
• Use Photoshop's selection, painting, graphics, and vector tools, among others

In addition to this title, Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography will also focus on color management; advanced and professional production techniques; controlling digital color and tone; and creative enhancement techniques. We're thrilled that Eddie Tapp has finally agreed to publish books-and with O'Reilly.

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About the Author

Eddie Tapp is an award-winning photographer, lecturer, consultant and author on digital imaging issues with over 20 years of experience in computer technology. Eddie has shared his knowledge worldwide through a series of instructional CDs on Professional Enhancement Techniques, Color Management and Digital Workflow available from Software Cinema, as well as numerous contributions to publications such as "The Professional Photographer", "Photo Electronic Imaging", "Infoto Magazine", "Southern Exposure", and "Digital Capture" among others.

His professional clients include Epson, Eastman Kodak, Foveon, Polaroid, Apple Computer, The Society for Imaging Science and Technology, Dynacolor Graphics, Marathon Press, American Color Lab, Millers Color Lab, H&H Color Lab, CPQ Color Lab, PhotoLogic (Ireland), PGC (Japan), DOD, DOE, US Army, US Navy, and other government agencies, and a long list of photographic studios. Having served as print judge at many professional photographic competitions, he currently is a Nationally Qualified Juror for the Professional Photographers of America association in Electronic Imaging.

Currently the Director of the Institute of Visual Arts in Maui, Hawaii, Eddie served 6 years as the Chairman of the Committee on Digital and Advanced Imaging for the Professional Photographers of America where he holds the Master of Photography, Master of Electronic Imaging & Photographic Craftsman degrees, API (Approved Photographic Instructor), and is a Certified Professional Photographer. He also is the Commercial Council representative to PPA for the GPPA. Eddie serves on Adobe's Photoshop beta team and on NAPP's (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) Photoshop Dream Team.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media (August 8, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596101686
• ISBN-13: 978-0596101688
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,875,533 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tips to increase your Photoshop productivity, August 20, 2006

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ueberhund "ueberhund" (Salt Lake City, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photoshop Workflow Setups: Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography (Paperback)

This book is really different from any other Photoshop book I've come across. Many Photoshop books seem bent on illustrating every feature the software provides. This can be a bit intimidating for beginning Photoshop enthusiasts, who still have trouble navigating the software. This book simply aims to help the reader organize the Photoshop environment in a way that makes it easy to perform the work of digital enhancement.

The author begins by helping the reader get the Photoshop environment set up in a useable fashion. The author discusses techniques for organizing the many menus and palettes that Photoshop shows by default. The author then proceeds into a really good discussion of some of the more important palettes in Photoshop (including layer, color, and brushes palettes). The author then shows how to customize certain preferences, so that you are not forced to change them every time you open Photoshop. He then shows how to customize some of the menus and keyboard shortcuts. Finally, with the environment set up just so, the author illustrates how to use a couple of Photoshop's most famous tools (including selection and methodical tools).

If you find yourself working often with Photoshop, then I would highly recommend taking a look at this book. The author identified several things that will likely make my Photoshop experiences more productive. Armed with the knowledge this book provides, the reader will find their Photoshop sessions more enjoyable and more worthwhile.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SMILE! YOU'RE ON PHOTOSHOP!!, September 28, 2006

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John R. Vacca "Tech Write Independent Reviewer" (Pomeroy, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photoshop Workflow Setups: Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography (Paperback)

Are you having a problem with digital imaging and processing problems? If you are, then this book is for you! Author Eddie Tapp, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that shows you step-by-step digital imaging and processing production techniques that are easy to understand

Tapp, begins by covering how to set up the general Photoshop workspace. Then, the author shows you some of the key options, preferences, and fly-out menu features of key palettes. Next, he looks at setting preferences that he's found to be most important. The author continues by showing you how you can adapt Photoshop to your way of thinking. He also shows you how to manage images and files between all Adobe applications. Finally, the author looks at some powerful tools in Photoshop, what they do, and how you can establish options for a more productive workflow.

This most excellent book presents the key areas of Photoshop that you can configure for an efficient, visually uncluttered workspace. More importantly, the author not only shows you how Photoshop features work, but how they should work for you and your specific needs.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for beginners and experienced users, February 15, 2007

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Anne Greeson (Long Beach CA) - See all my reviews
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I recommend this book for anyone who does Photoshop. If you're a beginner, start with this book. It explains in detail what things are and how they work. Then, moves on to tell you how to customize just for you and how you work.
It is also a great reference book as you try new things.