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Real World Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Real World)
by: Bruce Fraser, David Blatner

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780321334114
ISBN: 0321334116
Label: Peachpit Press
Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 984
Publication Date: October 21, 2005
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Sales Rank: 85781
Studio: Peachpit Press

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Fooling around with Photoshop to create interesting composite artwork is all well and good. But if you rely on Photoshop to meet tough production challenges in a fast-paced professional environment, fooling around won't cut it! You need results, and you need them now: This book delivers! In this copiously illustrated volume, best-selling authors David Blatner and Bruce Fraser offer scads of hands-on production techniques as well as clear explanations of the concepts that drive them, so that you can get the best results possible on your own Photoshop CS2 projects. You'll learn about managing color, getting great scans, correcting tones and colors, and more. You also find complete coverage of all of Photoshop CS2's newest features: integration with Adobe Bridge; Vanishing Point; super-tight integration with the rest of Adobe's Creative Suite 2; and more. Throughout, the emphasis is on efficiency: the time-saving tips and professional shortcuts that will allow you to work faster, smarter, and more creatively with Photoshop CS2.

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- a must read!!!
i use photoshop everyday. at work and at home. of course i know everything... i thought! of course... NOT!!!!
a must read for everyone using photoshop more than 15 minutes a day... :-)

have fun!

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- This book is only ok
This book covers a lot of ground, and doesn't just cover surface topics either, its really an in depth look into the amazing world of Photoshop.
I'm not going to cover the contents of each chapter, you can find another review that does just that, all that I would like to do is give another point of view that I wish someone else had given when I was looking to buy this book.

I have about 13 Photoshop cs2 books, and this is probably the one that has disappointed me the most. Its not a very practical book, although it covers a lot of ground, I found the explanations to be a tad incoherent and a bit too long winded, they go into so much detail and become so technical that you end up loosing site of what you are trying to achieve. For instance I worked through the chapter on color settings-(setting up Photoshop so that what you see on the monitor and what actually prints looks the same) and I found ... Read More

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- Superlative
Adobe should purchase the rights to this book and send it out as the manual. It is staggeringly good. Scott Kelby's books are silly tricks. These guys provide the theory behind what the program is doing, and then explain in clear, understandable and friendly prose how to master the essential tools in the program.

Reading technical material has never been so enjoyable.

This is an incredible book.

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- This is the bible...
This really is the top pick for a book on Photoshop CS2. Keep in mind though that it is much more of a manual than a tutorial. It is probably a bit of a steep learning curve for an absolute beginner. It has far more depth than almost any other book on the subject. It also lives up to its title "Real World" in that the authors give very useful pragmatic advice as to what is actually useful and how best to apply the tools to situations you are likely to encounter. It IS NOT a step-by-step tutorial. If I had to have only one book on Photoshop it would be this one. If you are truely starting from scratch I'd recommend that you supplement this book with a few online tutorials just to get you up and playing with the software a little before diving into the details.

It is worth noting there are plethora of really poor photoshop books out there. Besides this book, which is probably the pick of the litter, ... Read More

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