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Publisher Wiley
Publication Date 2004-02-16
Paperback - 1056 Pages
ISBN 0764541781
- Photoshop is the world-standard image editing software for print and digital media; the next software release?predicted for late 2003?will be eagerly anticipated by millions of loyal users
- This edition will be a total revision to the classic bestseller
- Written by Photoshop Hall of Fame member Deke McClelland, whose easy and approachable style demystifies even the most complex Photoshop tasks
- "100 percent comprehensive, authoritative, and what you need" coverage, from the Apply Image command to the ZigZag filter
??a good starter for those serious about getting in to Photoshop?a sound one?off investment?? (British Journal of Photography, July 2004)
? Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals
"When someone asks me something I don?t know about Photoshop, I tell them to go read the Photoshop Bible. It does something no other book does ? it tells you everything."
? Russell Preston Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe Systems
World?renowned Photoshop expert and Hall of Famer Deke McClelland has earned more than 20 industry awards and written over 60 books on computer graphics and design with more than 3 million copies in print. Now, in this thoroughly updated edition of his international bestseller, McClelland shows you how to master every aspect of Photoshop CS ? from image?editing basics to new techniques for working with the File Browser, layer comps, Lens Blur, Match Color, the color replacement tool, customizable keyboard shortcuts, camera raw images, and more.
? Get creative with text on a path
? Give bad color the slip with the Match Color command
? Give images a colorful new look with the color replacement tool
? Create depth?of?field effects with the Lens Blur filter
– Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals
"When someone asks me something I don’t know about Photoshop, I tell them to go read the Photoshop Bible. It does something no other book does – it tells you everything."
– Russell Preston Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe Systems
World?renowned Photoshop expert and Hall of Famer Deke McClelland has earned more than 20 industry awards and written over 60 books on computer graphics and design with more than 3 million copies in print. Now, in this thoroughly updated edition of his international bestseller, McClelland shows you how to master every aspect of Photoshop CS – from image?editing basics to new techniques for working with the File Browser, layer comps, Lens Blur, Match Color, the color replacement tool, customizable keyboard shortcuts, camera raw images, and more.
- Get creative with text on a path
- Give bad color the slip with the Match Color command
- Give images a colorful new look with the color replacement tool
- Create depth?of?field effects with the Lens Blur filter
His most sinister books are the award?winning Photoshop CS Bible and Photoshop CS Bible, Professional Edition (www.amazon.com/deke), now in their eleventh year with more copies in print than any other guides on computer graphics. Other subversive titles include Photoshop CS For Dummies, Photoshop Elements For Dummies (both Wil ey Publishing, Inc.), and Real World Illustrator (Peachpit Press).
Deke further shocks and appalls as host of the interactive ?Video Workshop? that ships with Photoshop as well as the fiendishly exhaustive Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS (www.totaltraining.com), the predecessor of which was named Training Product of the Year by MacNet 2.0. His other DVD? and CD?based video series include Digital Photography with Photoshop Elements and Total Training for Adobe Illustrator CS (both Total Training).
In 1989, Deke won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Computer Book. Since then, he has received similarly diabolical honors from the Society for Technical Communication (once in 1994 and twice in 1999),Photo>Electronic Imaging (1999), the American Society of Business Press Editors (1995 and 2000), the Western Publications Association (1999), and the Computer Press Association (1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, and twice in 2000). In 1999, Book Bytes named Deke its Author of the Year. In 2002, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals voted Deke into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.
During his fall from grace, Deke has also managed to become an Adobe Certified Expert, a member of the PhotoshopWorld Instructor Dream Team, a featured speaker on the 2003 Photoshop Fling cruise of the Eastern Caribbean, and a contributing editor for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines. Few now believe there is any hope for him.
- Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals
"When someone asks me something I don’t know about Photoshop, I tell them to go read the Photoshop Bible. It does something no other book does - it tells you everything."
- Russell Preston Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe Systems
World-renowned Photoshop expert and Hall of Famer Deke McClelland has earned more than 20 industry awards and written over 60 books on computer graphics and design with more than 3 million copies in print. Now, in this thoroughly updated edition of his international bestseller, McClelland shows you how to master every aspect of Photoshop CS - from image-editing basics to new techniques for working with the File Browser, layer comps, Lens Blur, Match Color, the color replacement tool, customizable keyboard shortcuts, camera raw images, and more.
* Get creative with text on a path
* Give bad color the slip with the Match Color command
* Give images a colorful new look with the color replacement tool
* Create depth-of-field effects with the Lens Blur filter
? Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals
"When someone asks me something I don?t know about Photoshop, I tell them to go read the Photoshop Bible. It does something no other book does ? it tells you everything."
? Russell Preston Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe Systems
World-renowned Photoshop expert and Hall of Famer Deke McClelland has earned more than 20 industry awards and written over 60 books on computer graphics and design with more than 3 million copies in print. Now, in this thoroughly updated edition of his international bestseller, McClelland shows you how to master every aspect of Photoshop CS ? from image-editing basics to new techniques for working with the File Browser, layer comps, Lens Blur, Match Color, the color replacement tool, customizable keyboard shortcuts, camera raw images, and more.
- Get creative with text on a path
- Give bad color the slip with the Match Color command
- Give images a colorful new look with the color replacement tool
- Create depth-of-field effects with the Lens Blur filter
? Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals
"When someone asks me something I don?t know about Photoshop, I tell them to go read the Photoshop Bible. It does something no other book does ? it tells you everything."
? Russell Preston Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe Systems
World-renowned Photoshop expert and Hall of Famer Deke McClelland has earned more than 20 industry awards and written over 60 books on computer graphics and design with more than 3 million copies in print. Now, in this thoroughly updated edition of his international bestseller, McClelland shows you how to master every aspect of Photoshop CS ? from image-editing basics to new techniques for working with the File Browser, layer comps, Lens Blur, Match Color, the color replacement tool, customizable keyboard shortcuts, camera raw images, and more.
- Get creative with text on a path
- Give bad color the slip with the Match Color command
- Give images a colorful new look with the color replacement tool
- Create depth-of-field effects with the Lens Blur filter
- Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals
"When someone asks me something I don’t know about Photoshop, I tell them to go read the Photoshop Bible. It does something no other book does - it tells you everything."
- Russell Preston Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe Systems
World-renowned Photoshop expert and Hall of Famer Deke McClelland has earned more than 20 industry awards and written over 60 books on computer graphics and design with more than 3 million copies in print. Now, in this thoroughly updated edition of his international bestseller, McClelland shows you how to master every aspect of Photoshop CS - from image-editing basics to new techniques for working with the File Browser, layer comps, Lens Blur, Match Color, the color replacement tool, customizable keyboard shortcuts, camera raw images, and more.
- Get creative with text on a path
- Give bad color the slip with the Match Color command
- Give images a colorful new look with the color replacement tool
- Create depth-of-field effects with the Lens Blur filter
- Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals
"When someone asks me something I don’t know about Photoshop, I tell them to go read the Photoshop Bible. It does something no other book does - it tells you everything."
- Russell Preston Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe Systems
World-renowned Photoshop expert and Hall of Famer Deke McClelland has earned more than 20 industry awards and written over 60 books on computer graphics and design with more than 3 million copies in print. Now, in this thoroughly updated edition of his international bestseller, McClelland shows you how to master every aspect of Photoshop CS - from image-editing basics to new techniques for working with the File Browser, layer comps, Lens Blur, Match Color, the color replacement tool, customizable keyboard shortcuts, camera raw images, and more.
- Get creative with text on a path
- Give bad color the slip with the Match Color command
- Give images a colorful new look with the color replacement tool
- Create depth-of-field effects with the Lens Blur filter
– Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals
"When someone asks me something I don’t know about Photoshop, I tell them to go read the Photoshop Bible. It does something no other book does – it tells you everything."
– Russell Preston Brown, Senior Creative Director, Adobe Systems
World-renowned Photoshop expert and Hall of Famer Deke McClelland has earned more than 20 industry awards and written over 60 books on computer graphics and design with more than 3 million copies in print. Now, in this thoroughly updated edition of his international bestseller, McClelland shows you how to master every aspect of Photoshop CS – from image-editing basics to new techniques for working with the File Browser, layer comps, Lens Blur, Match Color, the color replacement tool, customizable keyboard shortcuts, camera raw images, and more.
- Get creative with text on a path
- Give bad color the slip with the Match Color command
- Give images a colorful new look with the color replacement tool
- Create depth-of-field effects with the Lens Blur filter
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Unfortunately this book barely touched on the specific new areas of Photoshop that I wanted to learn about, despite having over 1000 pages! I also noticed that there are only about 16 actual color pages in the whole book. For those just learning how to use Photoshop, this lack of color examples could be a real drawback.
It is far too advanced for a beginner: it doesn't teach how to use Photoshop to achieve anything much, apart from the odd very odd example.
For a regular user it isn't suitable as a reference book.
For an advanced user they will find its style of basically running through every single Photoshop command from start to end as completely unhelpful (especially the material covering the basics).
The book just runs through the Photoshop commands from start to end, leaving something as fundamental as layers at the finish. Bad structure and bad examples; and please, spare me the humour, I know it is well intentioned but it just becomes too much.
If you're a beginner go for a more hands on teaching book.
If you're an intermediate go for a more advanced teaching book.
If you're an expert buy a reference book.
It is clear the author is a Photoshop expert, but I just don't think he knows what he's trying to do with the book.
The only thing I can think is perhaps if you're a self-taught expert it will help fill in the gaps in your knowledge; it certainly lists every single shortcut keystroke (Mac and PC)!
It is far too advanced for a beginner: it doesn't teach how to use Photoshop to achieve anything much, apart from the odd very odd example.
For a regular user it isn't suitable as a reference book.
For an advanced user they will find its style of basically running through every single Photoshop command from start to end as completely unhelpful (especially the material covering the basics).
The book just runs through the Photoshop commands from start to end, leaving something as fundamental as layers at the finish. Bad structure and bad examples; and please, spare me the humour, I know it is well intentioned but it just becomes too much.
If you're a beginner go for a more hands on teaching book.
If you're an intermediate go for a more advanced teaching book.
If you're an expert buy a reference book.
It is clear the author is a Photoshop expert, but I just don't think he knows what he's trying to do with the book.
The only thing I can think is perhaps if you're a self-taught expert it will help fill in the gaps in your knowledge; it certainly lists every single shortcut keystroke (Mac and PC)!
It is far too advanced for a beginner: it doesn’t teach how to use Photoshop to achieve anything much, apart from the odd very odd example.
For a regular user it isn’t suitable as a reference book.
For an advanced user they will find its style of basically running through every single Photoshop command from start to end as completely unhelpful (especially the material covering the basics).
The book just runs through the Photoshop commands from start to end, leaving something as fundamental as layers at the finish. Bad structure and bad examples; and please, spare me the humour, I know it is well intentioned but it just becomes too much.
If you’re a beginner go for a more hands on teaching book.
If you’re an intermediate go for a more advanced teaching book.
If you’re an expert buy a reference book.
It is clear the author is a Photoshop expert, but I just don’t think he knows what he’s trying to do with the book.
The only thing I can think is perhaps if you’re a self-taught expert it will help fill in the gaps in your knowledge; it certainly lists every single shortcut keystroke (Mac and PC)!
THE Bible is THE bible of photoshop, and lives up to its name, after setting the standard for photoshop related literature. It’s the king of books of the king of programs, version after version, book after book.
It does have its flaws, sure, as Michael Jordan had his, as MichaelAngelo’s David may have them, after centuries of being under the magnifying glass of the most avid experts.
It is OK to search new horizons, such as Scott Kelby’s work, practical, step-by-step structured for we beginners and amateurs. But THE BIBLE is the book of photoshop to have at home if you could only have one, the industry benchmark for years, one of that books about something that achieve a place by themselfs and go way beyond the category of tutorials.
In my opinion, a book maybe not to be bought with every change of photoshop, but maybe every two upgrades or the program or so. A writing style and approach to teaching which has produced the best material (if the books are good, try the dvds series etc)about photoshop and illustrator.
Do not dare to say the name of the Great Deke in vain!!!!!!
THE Bible is THE bible of photoshop, and lives up to its name, after setting the standard for photoshop related literature. It’s the king of books of the king of programs, version after version, book after book.
It does have its flaws, sure, as Michael Jordan had his, as MichaelAngelo’s David may have them, after centuries of being under the magnifying glass of the most avid experts.
It is OK to search new horizons, such as Scott Kelby’s work, practical, step-by-step structured for we beginners and amateurs. But THE BIBLE is the book of photoshop to have at home if you could only have one, the industry benchmark for years, one of that books about something that achieve a place by themselfs and go way beyond the category of tutorials.
In my opinion, a book maybe not to be bought with every change of photoshop, but maybe every two upgrades or the program or so. A writing style and approach to teaching which has produced the best material (if the books are good, try the dvds series etc)about photoshop and illustrator.
Do not dare to say the name of the Great Deke in vain!!!!!!
Frankly, notwithstanding the disingenuous reasoning of why NOT to provide quality color images (whether on CD or online), it would have been cheaper in the end to include a CD with the book and dispense with the color plates altogether. The lack of see-for-yourself images is particularly troublesome in the promising section on layer blending modes. Deke keeps on talking and talking, but after a while you give up with a bad headache because even the original layer arrangement isn’t all that clear. Too bad, really - this would have been one of the most outstanding parts of the book.
The Bible becomes even more confusing when you learn that there’s a professional version with exactly the same title (librarians just love that!) -- sort of like an Old and a New Testament. Unfortunately, now that I own both versions, there are indeed some differences (mostly omissions) between the two. Even so, there are huge sections that are almost verbatim repetitions of the Old Testament, other than for the high-quality paper and the on-page color images (yet even here the section on layer blends remains unfulfilling for lack of a CD to learn how the author got there). Worse, the tantalizing in-depth treatment of Adobe’s Camera RAW plugin doesn’t show up till near the end and, truthfully, isn’t that greatly changed from the original (even the tea kettle illustration remains unchanged, other than for the color).
In all truth, McClellands "All-in-One" text that includes a CD and video strips may be not as complete as the Bibles, but you’ll learn a lot more, and retain it much better.
All told: the Bible(s) remains the definitive Photoshop reference work, presented in readable style with a nice touch of gentle humor. As it stands, this is a great resource for intermediate to advanced users, and a great buy pound-for-pound, well worth the top five stars. Substituting a CD for the color plates would turn this already bright star into one heck of a super-Nova.
This book makes me weep like reading some kind of Russian novel. I’m not kidding around. If states begin to allow people to marry books (and seriously folks, it’s not far off, am I right?), then I would get on bended knee and propose to the Photoshop CS Bible, Standard edition. It has given me the happiest months of my life.
The magic is still there. Thank you.
Each topic is covered well, in an easy-to-read style. Generally, I either turn to a specific topic (the index is comprehensive), or open it at random and start reading a new section. Either way, I find useful tips for my current projects.
Highly recommended - for folks just starting out or more experienced users alike.
Each topic is covered well, in an easy-to-read style. Generally, I either turn to a specific topic (the index is comprehensive), or open it at random and start reading a new section. Either way, I find useful tips for my current projects.
Highly recommended - for folks just starting out or more experienced users alike.
As anyone who has picked up Photoshop can tell you, it’s anything but intuitive. Incredibly powerful, but hardly something one can pick up by groping around. I slogged through the Photoshop Classroom In A Book when I tried Photoshop 6, and it was adequate, but not comprehensive enough.
A month ago, I decided to give Photoshop one more try, so I upgraded to Photosohop CS and bought this book. I love both the program and the book. Photosohp is still as unintuitive as ever, but McClelland’s book does a nice job of explaining the basics and then providing walk-throughs for most of the tasks one would normally perform in Photoshop.
I put the book to the test compositing a photograph with a dingy gray sky to a shot of a blue sky with white, puffy clouds. The original photograph has large areas of sky showing through trees, and I had never been able to re-sky a picture that complex. Using masking and color range selections, I got the task done in about fifteen minutes flat. Needless to say, I was impressed. I’m beginning to understand why people get hooked on Photoshop.
If you’re a novice to intermediate user, or if you are looking for a ready reference for tasks you don’t perform very often, then this book is well worth a look. It has earned a prominent place on my bookshelf.
A guide for beginners and ’experts’ alike - use it for instruction, use it for reference; you can even use it as a doorstop!
Worth the money if Photoshop CS is your thing.
A guide for beginners and ’experts’ alike - use it for instruction, use it for reference; you can even use it as a doorstop!
Worth the money if Photoshop CS is your thing.
to say that I’m disappointed.
It IS the Photoshop "CS" Bible and the single and most important change
between CS and Photoshop 7 is the Camera RAW converter. Well don’t expect
much from this thousand page book if you are looking for Camera RAW
information.
The author Deke McClelland, starts off the skimpy Camera RAW section - and it
takes until page 942 to get there - with a disclaimer that "The Camera RAW
dialog box is a professional-level tool, which is why I cover it in obsessive detail
in the Photoshop CS Bible, Professional Edition."
How nice. It’s a 1000+ page book, but it isn’t "professional", and being a
peasant, I don’t get the benefit of the "obsessive detail" that I thought I was
buying. He does cover "the basic stuff" but that "ain’t what I paid for".
What this book seems to be, is a cheap and dirty revision to McClelland’s
Photoshop 7 "Bible", and that’s why I’m sending my copy back. If what
McClelland says is true, I’ll just wait for someone to write a book specifically on
Camera RAW, and it won’t be him.
Now the rest of the book may be great. But if you have a previous edition you’d
be well served to save your money.
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