Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative Use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC [With CDROM]

by Martin Evening

Book Overview

Martin Evening's award-winning Adobe Photoshop for Photographers titles have become must-have reference sources - the only Photoshop books written to deal directly with the needs of photographers.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0240516907
• ISBN13: 9780240516905
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Focal Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Photoshop book

It's the best book I've found so far dealing with the unwieldly subject of PhotoShop. He covers a lot of bases and demystifies topics like alpha channels; subjects that never seem to be quite clearly explained in the other books. My only complaint is that some of the instructions seem a little vague in one or two of the examples. That said, I emailed Martin directly for clarification and he replied with an answer within 12 hours. I think that it would be very useful for non-photographers as well.

one of the best resources for photographers

I've been a professional photographer and graphic designerfor 14 years and I've used photoshop since its early days.(before Layers)This is an awesome reference book! This book covers a wide range of topics. Mr. Evening is very knowledgableon digital imagery, manipulation, and overall use of modern digital imaging devices. I would say this is the very best book I've ever come across. Photoshop is soversatile that the complexity can be overwhelmingBut this book explains it all very well.

Great book for anyone using photoshop

Im a novice with photoshop but this book is a "keeper". Ive purchased and quickly sold most of the "How to" books on photoshop. Some had too little information, some had too much information, and some were loaded with confusing information . This book has a great balance of "how to" and "why" for all levels of photoshop users. I like it.

Nearly Perfect Book for using Photoshop w/ a digital camera

A simply superb book for learning how to use Photoshop 7.0 with images from your digital camera or scanner. I've been using Photoshop since before Adobe purchased it from the Knoll brothers and would assert that this book ranks among the two or three best works ever published on Photoshop, even when compared with Adobe's own excellent Classroom-in-a-Book series.The book is designed to address the issues that pro photographers face in reproducing and manipulating digital imagery with Photoshop 7.0, but contains a wealth of info and shortcuts that are valuable to anyone using Photoshop with the current generation of digital cameras and scanners. The author also is to be commended for the clarity of his writing, and his ability to explain the more complex concepts of digital manipulation of imagery. I especially like the inclusion of examples generated by pro photographers using professional models, instead of the poorly lit examples that fill most books covering the use of Photoshop. The CD tutorials included with the book are excellent, as well. The information on color space and calibration in the book can be a bit daunting for new users, but they are well worth the effort to read. The example projects included in the book are very useful and cover nearly all the practical situations that most photographers might face in their work with Photoshop. The actual book is beautifully printed on fine quality paper and the example photos are reproduced quite nicely by the folks at Focal Press. I would love a bit more on using third-party plug-ins in the next edition, but that is a minor criticism of this wonderful volume. This book represents the current state-of-the-art for improving your work with Adobe's flagship application. While most certainly geared towards pros, the book is great for those users who aspire to those heights. Even though I've worked with digital imagery for almost twenty years, I still learned an amazing amount from this book, and consider it to be a bargain. Very highly recommended.

Now I Know WHY! Thanks, Martin.

I've used Photoshop for several years and never felt that I knew how to get the best results as a photographer. What I saw with my eye, captured either on film or digital, worked with in Photoshop and then sent to the printer, never was exactly what I wanted. After the first six chapters, I was finally getting a handle on what I'd been puzzled by for years. By the end of the book, I had learned more than my money's worth!If you need to learn Photoshop, get the "Classroom" book. If you want your photos to literally come alive in Photoshop and have that translated to your prints, get this book. You'll also pick up all of those handy keyboard shortcuts that make the process fly.The book is physically a little heavy for bedtime reading, but that's a good excuse to go back to the computer and play with the new ideas and solutions, even at 3 AM.Enjoy.