Adobe Photoshop and the Art of Photography: A Comprehensive Introduction (Paperback)

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Get a full introduction to CS3 with step-by-step instructions exemplified by real-world examples. No matter your level, the book focuses on how to use the software as a tool for enhancing your photography. -- PC Photo Magazine, December 2007

No matter your level, the book focuses on how to use the software as a tool for enhancing your photography. --PC Photo Magazine, December 2007

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...an overview of contemporary photography (and Photoshop's place in it) to a wealth of technical know-how about the software.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Thomson Delmar Learning; 1 edition (August 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1428312099
• ISBN-13: 978-1428312098
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #769,959 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A helpful guide for an old time film photographer, November 30, 2007

By	R. E. Bernstein (Philly) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a long time film photographer making the move to digital this book was a life saver. The step by step approach took the mystery out of photoshop.
The language was clear and the examples relevant.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Adobe Photoshop & the Art of Photography, October 4, 2007

By	W. K. Ross (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been using Photoshop for years. Several times I have beaten my brains out trying to set up actions/batch processing for large groups of photos. I always failed. Within two minutes after I first opened Weinrebe's book, I had successfully set up an action and put it to work automatically resizing and optimizing a huge load of wedding photos my wife shot last weekend.

Most software manuals are written by people who don't have the imagination to put themselves in the position of a non-expert user. This book gives you all the steps, in straight clear language, so you can do with Photoshop what you want to do. Further, you will gain artistic perspective, not just technical info. The author's love of photography is infectious.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book covers PSCS 3 in an easy-to-understand fashion, April 17, 2008

By	Andrew Darlow "Editor, ImagingBuffet.com" (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Photoshop CS3 is a very "deep" application, and I think that this book can be an excellent resource for virtually any CS3 user (especially those who classify themselves as intermediate users of Photoshop). The author does not assume that you have already read a user manual or other book. He covers in detail many of the tools in detail that are frequently used to color correct, mask and composite images, and do many other common tasks. "Hints" and "Notes" can be found throughout the book in small green boxes, and I found them very helpful. For example, in Chapter 10, the author explains in a Hint box how to apply sharpening settings from one image to a batch of images in Bridge.

Weinrebe supports his lessons with good screen shots throughout the book. Just a small selection of the tools that he covers very well (in a step-by-step fashion) are the Healing Brush, Lens Correction tool, History Brush, the Bridge and Camera Raw (including a suggested Bridge/Camera Raw Workflow), tinting with a color layer, batch renaming, converting to DNG, creating contact sheets, creating panoramas with Photomerge, and actions.

One of the most interesting parts of the book are the artist interviews. These Q&A sessions with such luminaries as John Paul Caponigro, R. Mac Holbert, Pedro Meyer, Graham Nash, Maggie Taylor and Joyce Tenneson generally run from about 4-7 pages and include fantastic imagery and insight about the artists' background, their art, what motivates them, and how they approach and use various technologies. I believe that this series of essays could easily be a very strong coffee table book on their own. They are a really special.

I also like the Chapter Reviews questions and Exercises at the end of each chapter, which can definitely help people to learn more about the Photoshop techniques that were covered in the chapter. Having all the exercise files on a CD in the book is also a nice feature. Also, it really helps that Weinrebe is a professional photographer who has been preparing files for clients for years. His work really shines throughout the book.