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• David D. Busch has been demystifying arcane computer and imaging technology since the early 1980s. However, he had a successful career as a professional photographer for a decade before he sat down at the keyboard of his first personal computer. Busch has worked as a newspaper photographer, done commercial studio and portrait work, shot weddings, and roved the United States and Europe as a photojournalist. His articles on photography and image editing have appeared in magazines as diverse as Popular Photography and Imaging, Petersen’s PhotoGraphic, The Rangefinder, and The Professional Photographer, as well as computer magazines such as Macworld and Computer Shopper. He’s currently reviewing digital cameras for CNet.

• Explores image editing in Photoshop from a professional photographer's perspective, combining Photoshop and photography in a meaningful way.

• Perfect for getting up to speed on the latest features of Adobe Photoshop CS2.

• Guides readers through reproducing professional-looking camera effects.

• Written for camera buffs, both digital and conventional, and business people who want to go beyond point-and-click snapshooting to explore the enriching world of photography.

• Clear, easy to understand and full of color images that clearly illustrate the lessons.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 3 Ratings

A catch all that didn't. - 2005-12-30
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The book attempts to do what many photoshop books do, cram the basics, with some technique, throw in a bit of advanced stuff and leave you with a bit of everything in the end. A majority of the photos used in the book are average. Topics which I think are crucial to the art include colour accuracy, getting the best rom RAW images, calibration, output control. All these topics were lightly touched on with no real meaty goodness.

The book feels suited towards the beginner, but I believe there are better choices

I think you'd be better of with Martin Evan's Photoshop for Photographers for a more focused, indepth book on the topic, and possibly a general book covering aspects of Photoshop, perhaps Real World Photoshop by Bruce Fraser.

Good concept, bad book - 2006-07-25
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I liked the idea of this book, providing people with a background in conventional photography with a book to learn photoshop. The end result is really poor though. Some of my complaints with this book are:

Commands are listed in the wrong menus. The excercises are poorly explained. But the worst for me is that at the end of an excercise he will say things like "for my final image I combined this with another version in which I had edited it to..." with absolutely no details of how this would be done. In most cases these statements actually require editing that is more complicated than what has been presented, and use entirely different techniques. So, if you are a photoshop guru I suppose you could do this, but if you are trying to learn it is useless.

Also, the photos really aren't very good. There is an example in which he refers to "brightening a scene". Of course, he doesn't mean "brightening" he means changing the colour cast, by changing the hue and saturation. His end result that he says looks "much better" is horrible. He does make the sky look good, but he winds up with a purple lake.

There are much better books out there on photoshop, keep looking...

taught me more about photography than photoshop - 2006-08-23
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Exactly what the title says. I would've learned more by just fiddling with Photoshop.

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