Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more



or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering
More Buying Choices
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Start reading Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 on your Kindle in under a minute.

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.
Sorry, this item is not available in
Image not available for
Color:
Image not available

To view this video download Flash Player

 

Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 [Paperback]

Scott Kelby
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (111 customer reviews)

List Price: $49.99
Price: $31.69 & FREE Shipping. Details
You Save: $18.30 (37%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Only 9 left in stock (more on the way).
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.
Want it Friday, June 21? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details
Free Two-Day Shipping for College Students with Amazon Student

Formats

Amazon Price New from Used from
Kindle Edition $18.00  
Paperback $31.69  
Amazon.com Textbooks Store
Shop the Amazon.com Textbooks Store and save up to 70% on textbook rentals, 90% on used textbooks and 60% on eTextbooks.

Book Description

October 26, 2007 0321501926 978-0321501929 1
Scott Kelby, the world's #1 bestselling Photoshop author, and the man who changed the Photoshop and digital photography world with his ground-breaking, award-winning "Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers" unveils a exciting, brand new way of thinking, and working in Adobe Photoshop that will not only change the industry again, but it will change the way we all work in Photoshop forever, so we can finally spend less time fixing our images, and more time finishing them.

You're about to become a Photoshop Shark!
Scott has focused in and really narrowed things down to just exactly which Photoshop tools and techniques we absolutely, positively have to know, and he found that there are just seven major tools, seven major features that we have to master to enhance our images like a pro. But then he took it a step further. Out of those seven major tools, he looked at which parts or sections of those tools do we really need to master, and which parts can we pretty much ignore (in other words, he whittled it down so you're not learning parts of the tools that you're probably never going to need). Then, and perhaps most importantly, he determined exactly when and in which order to apply these seven techniques that make up Scott's amazing "Photoshop Seven Point System."

But the magic of this book, is not just listing the seven tools and showing how they work. It's how they're used together, and how Scott teaches them (and makes it stick), that makes this book so unique.  You're not going to just learn one technique for fixing shadows, and another technique for adjusting color (every Photoshop book pretty much does that, right?). Instead, you're going start off at square one, from scratch, as each chapter is just one photo—one project—one challenging lifeless image (you'll follow along using his the same images), and you're going to unleash these seven tools, in a very specific way, and you're going to do it  again, and again, and again, in order on different photos, in different situations, until they are absolutely second nature. You're finally going to do the FULL fix—from beginning to end—with nothing left out, and once you learn these seven very specific techniques, and apply them in order, there won't be a an image that appears on your screen that you won't be able to enhance, fix, edit, and finish yourself!

Plus, Scott's techniques work across a wide range of photos, and that's exactly what you'll be working on in the book, from landscapes to portraits, to architectural, to nature, from event photography to everything in between—there isn't a photo you won't be able to beat!

This is the book you've been waiting for, the industry's been waiting for, and Scott's "Adobe Photoshop Seven Point System" is so revolutionary that he's officially applied for a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and this new system is only found in this amazing, ground breaking new book. Once you learn these techniques, and start applying them yourself, you'll be the next one to say—"You can't beat 'The System!'


Frequently Bought Together

Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 + The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers
Price for both: $67.50

Buy the selected items together


Product Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (October 26, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321501926
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321501929
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.6 x 9.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (111 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #405,694 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Photographer, author of "The Digital Photography Book" series & longtime Photoshop book author. Editor/Publisher of Photoshop User magazine, President of the National Assn. of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) co-host of the live weekly photography talk show "The Grid." Co-host of "Photoshop User TV" and Conference Technical Chair of the Photoshop World Conference & Expo. Sleep is over-rated. ;-)

Customer Reviews

Scott Kelby's teaching style is humorous and easy to read. Deri C. Dority  |  18 reviewers made a similar statement
Easy to understand and each step was easy to follow. Treddles  |  16 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
285 of 301 people found the following review helpful
By GJ
Format:Paperback
This book may be what you need, or it may actually drive you nuts, quite quickly. This depends on your skill level in photoshop, your personality, and your actual needs regarding photos (i.e., what you need them for). Since some of the reviews formerly posted here sound like something a company marketing team may write, a few clarifications may be in order before you purchase this book.

First, the somewhat misleading title: sure, SEVEN is a nice number with lots of ancient tradition (e.g., from seven deadly sins, and seven virtues to seven habits of highly successful people, etc.) Alas, there aren't just seven "points". It's more like SEVENTY.

Scott Kelby (as always very articulate and mercifully NOT trying to be too humorous this time) uses some very wide, general, and often COMPLEX concepts, and treats them as ONE "point" each. So, for example, one such point (among seven) is "use Adobe Camera RAW to make all appropriate / necessary adjustments" (I am paraphrasing here) - but that is hardly ONE point: it includes setting / adjusting white balance, exposure, white / black point, fussing with shadows, initial sharpening, clarity / vibrance, saturation, etc. Another example of such single "point" (among the seven) would be "painting with light": which sounds good and simple, but actually involves working with multiple adjustment layers, and creating numerous, often quite complex, variable density masks for localized adjustments - so much so, that some images wind up being a sandwich of more than four layers, each with its own masks, individual transparency settings, and blending modes - hardly "one simple point" again.
... Read more ›
Was this review helpful to you?
296 of 316 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing November 9, 2007
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is Scott Kelby's typical witty and unpresumptuous style. So if the content suits you, it's a good and worthy read. However, you should be aware that it is really a set of recipes for correcting 'problems'. Some of the problems are 'real' problems, like gross underexposure, best handled by better camera work, and some are 'enhancements'. Granted, all photographers, or cameras, make exposure mistakes so the material is valuable. Some of the 'enhancements' are very distinct departures from reality, also OK if that is what you want, but might violate some of the ethical rules held by nature photographers. These are not serious problems, just issues of choice... serious choice.

Bigger issues for me are the inconsistancies of the methods described. Sometimes color balance is achieved in Camera Raw, sometimes in Photoshop; same for contrast, same for sharpening. In most cases there are no explanations about how that decision is made. Recipes, not instruction.

And the largest issue is that of retaining the ability to manage each step of correction so that intermediate changes can be recovered or changed. So while Scott makes a big deal of the fact that a change to LAB mode and back will not 'damage' the pixels, this requires that the image be flattened, which causes a much bigger problem (the need to start over from scratch if subsequent changes are not satisfactory.) In the very first example, Scott shows a very sophisticated approach to using the Shadow/Highlight filter as a smart object that avoids the issue of irreversibly changing the underlying pixels, yet later flattens the image to make the change to LAB mode. In example 1, the image is flattened 4 times! Geesh!
... Read more ›
Was this review helpful to you?
60 of 64 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but still lacking November 9, 2007
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I own many of Kelby's books and I was really looking forward to his 7-point system book. It sounded like the target audience was ME. I can tell that a photo needs work but I don't know what to do. I have a fortune invested in Photoshop books and they tell me what all the controls do - but not when to apply them.

I with I could give this book a 5-star, but what's missing for me is the *why* in each step. For example, in the first lesson he says to go to curves and to double click on the shadow eyedropper and enter 7's for the RGB values. Why? At the end of this adjustment he says to flatten the layers. Why?

What would be great would be if the publisher had a forum where people could discuss the book and ask questions.
Was this review helpful to you?
40 of 42 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A great book for photographers, one of the best November 12, 2007
Format:Paperback
I just finished Scott Kelby's "7-Point System" on photoshop techniques. I have been using Photoshop since version 4, now on CS3. I've been to Photoshop World, and have purchased many books on photoshop. I am a landscape photographer, and have a well-established work-flow, but I'm always willing to learn new techniques. I frequently post on Fred Miranda's website. I think Scott Kelby's book is the best and most useful overall Photoshop Book I have read. The workflow is a very good one, well explained, and it implements Photoshop tricks and techniques that I have found hard to master. It is well written and easy to follow. I am very happy to see it incorporates LAB processing as well (I think critical to landscape work; and there's something you wouldn't want to tackle on your own -- be sure to remember the LAB tip in Chapter 21; make the highlight/shadow adjustment in the Lightness channel.) I've already adjusted my workflow; I now use new techniques with confidence thanks to this great book. I give it ALL the stars.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars only opened first pages
Haven't had time to get in deep, but no doubt Scott will weave his usual can't put it down magic on me.
Published 1 day ago by Runs with Books
4.0 out of 5 stars A Must for Raw Processing in CS3
Scott Kelby takes you through the steps of working with your raw images - turning drab photos into pictures with punch.
Published 3 months ago by Kenneth J Knopp
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Photoshop guide written so far.
I must have 6 or 8 books on Photoshot and this is the only one that gives you a STARTING POINT for this very complicated program. Read more
Published 3 months ago by E. Wayne Nobles
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific book
Follow the lessons in this book and you'll learn Photoshop. If you need a refresher you just do the last lesson again to remind yourself of all the techniques.
Published 4 months ago by Scott Davis
5.0 out of 5 stars Helped me with my photography
I'm a NAPP member and am truly grateful for Scott Kelby's unrelenting dedication to education in the field fo photography and photoshop.
Published 4 months ago by Kyle Muschall
5.0 out of 5 stars Kelby makes creating great photos much easier
Scott Kelby boils Photoshop (or LightRoom) down to seven easy-to-grasp steps, and then has you repeat those steps on a number of photos. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Scott Burkett
4.0 out of 5 stars Scott Kelby's 7 Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3
Once again Scott Kelby has nailed it! Very informative for a CS3 beginner. Easy to understand and each step was easy to follow. A must have for a "newby"
Published 8 months ago by Treddles
5.0 out of 5 stars I've Been Looking for a Book Like This
When I first got into doing semi-enthusiast photography, I used to take my photos into Photoshop and sit there befuddled as to what to do to them. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Kurt Miller
1.0 out of 5 stars Sample photos are not available.
There is a serious problem with this book. When I went to the website to download the sample photos, it no longer existed. Read more
Published 17 months ago by William A. Nolan
4.0 out of 5 stars Good But Not Great
I just bought this book. One is supposed to be able to download the example photos used in the lessons. When I went to the page to download them, I got a 404 error. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Marvin Israel
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews


Forums

There are no discussions about this product yet.
Be the first to discuss this product with the community.
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 



So You'd Like to...


Create a guide


Look for Similar Items by Category