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No sooner did we give Blatner the 2003 BEST Award for the Real World Adobe Photoshop 7 book, along comes the Real World CS book. Well, you may as well consider it covered under the title "BEST." As mentioned in our review of Kelby's Down & Dirty Tricks books, the Real World books are the deep and broad Photoshop books that show you all the workings of Photoshop in addition to the whistles and bells.
If you rely on Photoshop to meet tough production challenges in a fast-paced professional environment, you'll probably use some of those glitzy effects maybe once or twice. But day in and day out you need to tap the powers of Photoshop that aren't necessarily revealed with a quarter page picture and severty five words. You need results, and you need them now: This book delivers!
In this copiously illustrated volume, best-selling authors David Blatner and Bruce Fraser offer the kinds of hands-on production techniques that separate the casual Photoshop user from the knowledgeable user able to perform on a consistent basis. They give clear explanations of the concepts that promotes understanding not just mimicry. You'll be prepared to get the best results possible with Photoshop CS projects -- or be equipped to find out how.
As I mentioned in my "BEST" review, managing color, getting great scans, and correcting tones and colors are these guys strong suite. Remember, they also wrote Real World Scanning and a dozen other image processing books that have become standards in the publishing and pre-press industry. So now you can get that kind of expertise on all of Photoshop CS' newest features -- the reworked File Browser; nonsquare pixel support; and more. Throughout, the emphasis is on efficiency: the time-saving tips and professional shortcuts that will allow you to work faster, smarter, and more creatively with Photoshop CS.
You can bet this one will be on the shelf right next to the Photoshop911 hot line. The Photoshop911 emergency response team not only relies on Real World Photoshop 7 -- but on 6, 5 and 4 as well as Real World Scanning and Real World Digital Photography.
Real World Adobe Photoshop CS
List Price: $49.99; Price: $34.99; You Save: $15.00 (30%); Paperback: 904 pages; Publisher: Peachpit Press; 6th edition (February 15, 2004)
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