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Professional Photoshop: Color Correction, Retouching, and Image Manipulation with Adobe Photoshop

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Though it competes in some ways with my book (Adobe Photoshop 5 How-To, ISBN 1571691561), I think there is a healthy difference of opinion and technique in this book. Certainly a valuable tool in learning to use Photoshop tools and image theory. One of the few I recommend.

This book completely changed what I do with Photoshop. Now I can make people look 90% better in 10% of the time. I can increase contrast without blurring the colors. I can make printed stuff turn out consistently. Wait'll you see what he says about all this fancy calibration hardware (you don't need it. He proves it). After I read this book in 1995 I started looking for anything by Margulis. I'd do anything to get a copy of that type book he wrote a few years back--already asked Amazon.com to find it for me. I'm waiting with abated breath for Professional Photoshop 5.

Dan has an easy style that is very readable.Not for the novice but a must for anyone serious about color correcting.I didn't like having to flip back and forth to see examples on different pages.Some of his explainations would have been easier to follow if the examples were adjacent to the text. I didn't find that it was written at the time Photoshop 3 was out any impediment. Photoshop 5 is out now and it is just aas germain. I also read his other book Makeready which was just as good and not a rehash. I went to his course in Atlants and it was great. I understand he is working on a new book now and I'll be first in line to get it.

This book will rip the sunglasses off your tired eyes and save you time and headaches. No more multiple selections and paths, no piddling with useless tools, no more guess work. It all starts with the info palette and the eyedropper. It is must reading. I strongly recommend Dan's color correction seminars either before or after to see the image transformations right before your eyes. The channel blending information is worth the price of 10 books!

This book teaches you how to color correct an image using familiar elements within the image and the eyedropper and levels PhotoShop tools. You can actually correct an image on a black and white monitor after studying this book.

Killer Photoshop book! Even though it "only" covers Photoshop 3. If you're a "normal" working photographer or designer chances are you don't use 90% of the stuff you read about in the "Photoshop Bible" all the time. What you really use is levels, curves and the Info box. "Professional Photoshop" concentrates on those areas and really helps you understand what you're doing, and why!! I'd give it a "10" if it was upgraded to PS 4!

I purchased this book based on the online reccomendations of others. I was shocked to learn that the entire focus of the book is on CMYK color and not RGB! (I only work in RGB as do many others.) This was rather misleading to say the least. I urge those of you who DO work in RGB to pass on this book. It is strictly designed for CMYK. Howard

Professional Photoshop 5 is out now. Where is it Amazon? If you have not worked extensively in color correction you will need to read this a couple of times to use all the techniques involed, but, you will understand it all. It helps alot if you know Photoshop well.