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 RedBull ofr Photoshop CS3 October 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the second Photoshop CS3 book I have purchase by Scott Kelby
I bought the 7 point system for Adobe Photoshop CS3 on the strength of how good the previous Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers.
The thing about this book it makes you want to take better photos. Whether you have a top of the range SLR or a point and shoot this step by step guides to creating great photos is so addictive.
This book drums into you head the steps you need to create great photos.
For me it made me look through the view finder in a different way, Now I know how to make my pictures look better in Photoshop CS3 I want better results from my camera and that means changing the way it look at the shots I am taking.
If you want to create great photos and maybe change the way you take photos then this book is for you.
Be warned it will wet your appetite for better photos.!!
 Useless for beginners September 14, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased this book when i bought CS3 (moving up from CS2). I have dabbled in Photoshop and was keen to learn how to really do something great with my pictures, and Kelbys book appeared to offer the solution...a concise system that is easy to learn.
Problem is, the book assumes you know how to use CS3 and offers no guidance at all as to which files to open, where to click, which menu's to use. It does little more than literally say; "open your picture with tool x and adjust it, then move on to step 2". This assumes you even know where tool x is located, and how to adjust it.
This book is definitely not for anyone new to CS3, it does not provide step by step instructions. Basically, the only time i will be able to use this is when i get seriously into Photoshop CS3 (which was what i bought this book to avoid having to do). Bottom line, the system appears to assume you know where the tools are and how to use them, but have never stripped down your approach or sequenced the tips like Kelby is suggesting. This places the book way beyond the novice photoshopper.
Beyond that, the book fails to address basic questions, such as: If you want me to open your images in CS3 Camera Raw (even though i have no idea how to do that) do i need to use a plug in for the Nikon camera you took the photo's with? (told you i'm unfamiliar with CS3).
So you can see the problem. This book is probably great for someone who knows this software really really well. For the average joe, forget it, you are wasting your money - which is a shame because the concept is sound. It just falls apart on the lack of detail in execution.
Kelby, if you read this, sorry to sound so harsh, but your book lost me completely. The style and intention is great, the instructions are just too vague, and assume way too much knowledge.
At last a structured approach!! September 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
With so many different ways to edit your photographs in photoshop it can get confusing. Not only do you learn some good stuff from all the books out there but if your like me and you don't use it for a while you forget what you have done. At last Scott Kelby has come up with a book that gives you some structure in what to do and when in editing your photos.
The sessions are repetitive but as Scotts says this is how you remember what to do. You get a link in the book that lets you download and work on the same images that Scott does in the book which is a great bonus.
If you are a photographer and what a book that is relevant to how to edit your photos in a logical and easy way then this is the book for you.
Richie
Buy this one! August 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you`re like me, attention span of a newt, then this is the book for you!
I`ve got SO many books over the years about Photoshop and whilst i`ll get to about the 2nd chapter i get fed up and move on. Unless, that is, a book comes along that is superbly written and incredibly easy to follow, packed full of useful REAL LIFE information that you will and can ACTUALLY use....this is that book.
Its just an awesome piece of writing.
Simplicity its its key to success. You just follow the simple instructions, repeat, practice and tadaah!! You`ve got it!
Maybe this has just set a standard that other books should follow.....in my eyes it certainly has!
Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 April 14, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
As a 70 year old,self taught relative new-comer to PC's, the scope and depth of Photoshop has proved to be almost overwhelming - but where do you start to de-mystify the programme's daunting controls and options?
Teach-yourself books generally assume you have at least a good grounding of computer-speak - and I didn't even know what the shift key was, or how to find it!
I had been browsing through Scott Kelby's tuition sites, and although enlightening they seemed to be just one step too far ahead for we old chaps with an attention span/memory grasp - THEN I bought his 7-Point System and a whole new world opened up before me. Undreamed of techniques unfolded that were readily understood, and the hours of pleasure working through the 21 lessons - some of the more basic I can now do with hardly a glance at the pages.
If you are new to PhotoShop , buy this book. I have a grandson who has been grounded in Adobe CS3 and is in his last university year majoring in Film Making, Production & Anomation - he has worked through my book and now buying his own - I guess no fuller praise than this can be offered.
Scott Kelby's approuch to digital imaging is superb, a bright light shining through the dark magic & mystery.
Just three words - BUY THIS BOOK.
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