Bestselling author Scott Kelby (Editor of Photoshop User magazine) is back with an amazing new collection of Photoshop Down and Dirty Tricks, including how to create the same exact effects you see every day in magazines, on TV, at the movies, and on the Web. It’s more of those eye-popping, jaw-dropping special effects that made Scott’s previous version an award-winning worldwide smash hit!

But this isn’t just an update to his previous book--these are 100% ALL NEW EFFECTS from cover-to-cover to reflect the latest trends in Photoshop special effects and design. These are nothing but today’s real world techniques--the same ones you see used by leading Photoshop photographers, designers, and special effect masters, and its all here in the only book of its kind.

You’ll learn the most closely guarded inside secrets for creating the latest cutting-edge effects, including techniques that have never been revealed before anywhere! And the book is written so clearly, and is so easy to follow, that you’ll be able to create every one of these amazing effects yourself. You’ll learn:

• Tricks professional photographers use to show off their work
• The most popular effects used by the big Hollywood studios
• The latest cutting-edge photographic special effects
• How to fake all kinds of studio shots (you’ll be amazed how its done!)
• The type effects that are most in demand by clients
• How to get stunning 3D effects without using a 3D program
• How to turn simple snapshots into museum quality gallery prints
• The most asked for new Web effects
• Plus loads of advanced effects that look hard, but are easy, once you know the secrets

But Down and Dirty tricks is more than just a just an effects book--it’s a tips book too, because on every page Scott includes a cool tip, a quick trick, or a timesaving shortcut, making this an invaluable productivity tool too! Plus the whole book is packed with design techniques, creative ideas and stunning layouts that will help you unleash your own creativity. It’s all here-- "Just the funk and not the junk" and if you’re into Photoshop, you’re absolutely gonna love it!

Bestselling author Scott Kelby (Editor of Photoshop User magazine) is back with an amazing new collection of Photoshop Down and Dirty Tricks, including how to create the same exact effects you see every day in magazines, on TV, at the movies, and on the Web. It’s more of those eye-popping, jaw-dropping special effects that made Scott’s previous version an award-winning worldwide smash hit!

But this isn’t just an update to his previous book--these are 100% ALL NEW EFFECTS from cover-to-cover to reflect the latest trends in Photoshop special effects and design. These are nothing but today’s real world techniques--the same ones you see used by leading Photoshop photographers, designers, and special effect masters, and its all here in the only book of its kind.

You’ll learn the most closely guarded inside secrets for creating the latest cutting-edge effects, including techniques that have never been revealed before anywhere! And the book is written so clearly, and is so easy to follow, that you’ll be able to create every one of these amazing effects yourself. You’ll learn:

• Tricks professional photographers use to show off their work
• The most popular effects used by the big Hollywood studios
• The latest cutting-edge photographic special effects
• How to fake all kinds of studio shots (you’ll be amazed how its done!)
• The type effects that are most in demand by clients
• How to get stunning 3D effects without using a 3D program
• How to turn simple snapshots into museum quality gallery prints
• The most asked for new Web effects
• Plus loads of advanced effects that look hard, but are easy, once you know the secrets

But Down and Dirty tricks is more than just a just an effects book--it’s a tips book too, because on every page Scott includes a cool tip, a quick trick, or a timesaving shortcut, making this an invaluable productivity tool too! Plus the whole book is packed with design techniques, creative ideas and stunning layouts that will help you unleash your own creativity. It’s all here-- "Just the funk and not the junk" and if you’re into Photoshop, you’re absolutely gonna love it!

Brilliant Book
I have used many of Scott Kelby’s books and every one gets better and better.
Everything is so well explained that even a relative beginner to Photoshop would be able to achieve these effects. Although some of these effects can prove to be more difficult with a bit of care and careful reading they can eventually be done.
All the effects , both with pictures and various text projects are really brilliant.
The only warning is these effects become a bit addictive and you rarely feel happy with un-altered images any more.

Useful tips and tricks
This is not an in depth instruction manual for Photoshop CS. This does give the inexperienced user of Photoshop quick and easy tips for creating a variety of useful projects. Many of these projects will expose the new user to some of the powerful tools of Photoshop. If you want to learn all of the features of Photoshop then buy a more technical book or take a Photoshop course. So to get a start into the world of Photoshop this may be the book for you.

Incredible.
This book is great for Photoshop CS beginners. It’s packed with many tricks and techniques. You’ll be saying, "So that’s how they do that!" quite often. I have been able to take several techniques and use them and create variations for my own advertising.

Example photos are available on Kelby’s website for download. Unfortunately, they have a BRAND X stamp on them and their quality seems lower, but useful none-the-less.

Great book for all Photoshop enthusiasts
I buy all of the "Tricks" books for Photoshop. They all have great ’secrets’ for achieving some really cool effects in a very short time. This book was no exception. Once you get one of the "Down and Dirty" books, you’ll want them all. No Photoshop artist should be without them. If you want to hang with the pros out there, you need to know every one of these tips in this book. I recommend the "Down and Dirty" series for everyone who owns Photoshop.

Great book when paired with....
The Photoshop CS Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)

Both books are by Scott Kelby. He does a great job of telling you exactly what you need to do with the photos.

Great book when paired with....
The Photoshop CS Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)



Both books are by Scott Kelby. He does a great job of telling you exactly what you need to do with the photos.

Great book for everybody
Think the author of this book is very known guy and he makes really cool stuff. And writes much books.

Don’t know if he thinks about all this "tips and tricks" himself, but for sure he have fantasy and imagination. Think it’s very important for every designer. Think book "Adobe Photoshop CS Down & Dirty Tricks" will help many people to find inspiration in what they wanna do, doing.. or if they don’t know from where to begin.

In book you can find a lot of cool and good tricks. Some of them of cause just using some filters, other made with fantasy, third taken from some magazines, but book in common is really great.

Now it’s almost published his new book "Photoshop Down and Dirty Tricks" It it will be as good as this one, i definitely wanna have it.

How dirty can you be?
With a teacher like S.K. you will become the dirtiest photoshopper around.But instead of going down you will get higher and HIGHER!

Adobe Photoshop CS Down & Dirty Tricks
Scott Kelby has put together a book of fun and useful digital imaging techniques in Adobe Photoshop CS Down & Dirty Tricks. He gives step-by-step instructions for each of his tricks. As a nice bonus he gives many kayboard shortcuts to be used in Photoshop CS. This is a good book for someone wanting to jazz up some of their photos or who wants a easy intro to digital imaging.

Great tricks
This book has some great tricks, mostly for me it was more the steps to do the tricks which can be used in other designs. Its a good book to learn about different ways of doing things in photoshop.

PhotoshopCS Down & Dirty Tricks
Although this was written for CS and I’ve since upgraded to CS2 I still find the book extremely useful for those quick tips that can make a big difference to your image. Additionally "Down & Dirty" speeds up your production of projects as you get to learn about the new features that make Photoshop the number one product in its class.
I found it best to read through the articles before trying specific ones on your computer because the book is designed to improve your knowledge of Photoshop rather than teach you the basics. If you’re familiar with Photoshop this book will broaden your horizons considerably and give you the confidence to try things you’d never dreamed of doing before!

THE TRUTH from someone who knows what they’re talking about
Here are some noteworthy tutorials perhaps you may find a use for, even though I did not: DVD mockup, Book mockup, Grudge Effect, Making a Photo Look Old. The best tutorials are by Felix Nelson, because they are original and unique. Scott Kelby’s stuff is kitsch. He copykats what graphic designer’s are doing today and recreates a cheap knock-off tutorial for this book. Best Buy, American Pie’s Logo, etc. Why the hell would I want to make a logo that looks just like American Pie’s logo? Or a logo that looks just like EA Sport’s logo? How trite. But if that’s your thing to steal, mimic, and make crappy versions of the original then go ahead. I used to respect Kelby, mmm not so much anymore. Anything for a buck and reproduce filler garbage for the masses. I pity anybody who uses this for commercial purposes or for anything that the public will see.

Great book - used for college course
This book is not made for beginners or pros. It has detailed instructions to accomplish each technique presented. If you don’t know the command set available with Photoshop, it gives you enough that you can find it and use it.

Okay, but not for newbies
If you are new to Adobe Photoshop, this is not the best book for learning. It assumes that you know some basic procedures. Scott Kelby makes some pretty cheesie comments in several segments of the book, comments that are not only extraneous, but tax my patience. The book gives techniques for achieving various effects, some of which I don’t know if I want to achieve. It’s a good reference for someone who has experience with Photoshop and who wants to know how the latest special effects can be duplicated.

Great book but nothing for photographer not in ad field....
I have bought many, many books on Amazon and this is the first I am returning that was not received damaged. I am a photographer and could not find anything in this book to justify keeping it - there is simply nothing which applies to my personal photography interests. I think it should be titled Down and Dirty Tricks for the Graphics Designer.
That said, I like his style and his recipes are easy to apply and clearly demonstrated. If you are in a commercial advertising business, web design, etc, this would be a terrific book to own. For those simply interested in editing and improving your photos via Photoshop CS, this is not the book. I am going to try to read some of his other books and see if there is one that is applicable, as I certainly like his teaching style.

The best ever
This without a doubt has got to be one of the best, if not THE best PhotoShop CS "how to" book I have read to date. While I trust any book written by Scott Kelby to be top notch, this one surpassed expectations. Mr. Kelby’s style makes it very easy for anyone at any level of PhotoShop experience to learn his new "dirty tricks". Not only are the effects he teaches in this book very timely for the graphics world, each lesson contains methods that can be applied in a wide variety of ways, not only in the manner he has applied them. The sidebar tips on every page are alone worth the price of this book. I have great respect for Mr. Kelby’s work and like him, encourage PhotoShop users to take what they’ve learned and mess with it. The screenshots he uses in his book are very clear, the lessons are easy to follow and like many tutorial sites or other books, he doesn’t write with the assumption that everyone is an experienced PhotoShop user-he takes the time to explain every step so even the absolute beginner can follow the tutorials in the book. The fact that the reader can also access the book’s images online adds to its "user friendly" interface. The resources Mr. Kelby includes at the end of the book are a goldmine for further learning. I would definitely put this book on the list of "PhotoShop must-haves."

The "Dirty Trick" is hyping this ’Downer’; no work-along CD
Worthwhile tutorials IF you are into type twisting, pixel bending or reality contortion, and IF you don’t need work-along images to follow the author’s steps. The title led me to expect an enhancement to Kelby’s other to-the-point Photoshop books. Rather, this appears to be more of a collection of Photoshop User magazine submissions. If you consider shortcuts ’L’ for lasso tool, ’M’ for marquee, and ’I’ for eyedropper as a revelation worth a half page sidebar, then you’d be far better served by one of the "Dummies for ..." books.

Regrettably,this dog-and-pony show of random techniques for digital contortionists - held together by the slim threads of glib verbiage and glossy pictures - is big on funny-talk but thin on substance. Some giveaways of publisher’s deadline page fillers are: 2 pages of kudos, and 5 pages of rambling "This is not an Introduction" (a ’pre-ramble’ perhaps?).

Unpardonable is this mentor’s cavalier attitude towards teaching materials; to label a student "pushy" if asking for work-along images to follow the tutorial steps seems incomprehensible. More on this: should you have the temerity to look for images, you are referred to the Brand-X website, not a mention there [a "mis-print ... sorry for the inconvenience"]. The Kelbybooks website has no link to image downloads; with persistence, you arrive at a gallery of highly-compressed tiny web-sized images (downloaded one-by-one), many marred by a disfiguring ’BrandX’ stamp. It’s like learning to do an appendectomy after reading an illustrated textbook.

Adobe offers this barnburner as a freebie with Photoshop purchase; don’t check that gift horse too closely in the mouth though. The production team certainly deserves credit for one of the two stars awarded here.

A sure-fire resource to add snap and sizzle to one’s images
From Scott Kelby (the editor of "Photoshop Magazine"), Photoshop Cs Down & Dirty Tricks is a guide offering step-by-step walkthroughs for techniques that can create eye-catching digital images using Photoshop - from 3D effects that don’t require a 3D program to transforming ordinary snapshots into museum-quality prints to tricks uses by professional photographers and much more. Full-color images, quick tips on the sidebar of every page, and instructions that are detailed down to each click of the mouse pack this user-friendly guide for amateur and professional alike. An index allows for quick and easy lookup of various topics. A sure-fire resource to add snap and sizzle to one’s digital images!

interesting, but not too relevent for most photographers
I don’t mean to complain, but I was very disappointed by this book. first of all, it doens’t really "teach" you photoshop -- it provides recipes to do things so you can do them without learning. For example, he doesn’t tell you how to make a layer or where the command is, he just gives you the shortcut which is not helpful for a beginner trying to figure out HOW to do basic tasks and where you can find those taks in the menu bar. But then again, I guess this book isn’t for beginners. My other grips is that I read through all the tips, but then I realized that for me, a photographer mostly of my own family, I didn’t need ANY of these tips -- I’m not creating a magazine, a CD cover, etc.. -- just family pics. So, if you want a quick recipe for doing neat text things and effects, this is the book for you. If you want to LEARN how to use the program or fix your photographs in non-gimmicky ways, you should buy a different book. This book will be great for designers or those who want to see how to produce high tech effects, but for just photographers, it’s not the best.