Photoshop CS3 Bible

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 1200 pages
• Published by: Wiley July 10, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470115416
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470115411
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 2.3 inches
• Weighs: 3.5 pounds

Product Description
Get the book you need to succeed in any Photoshop endeavor -- Photoshop CS3 Bible. In this totally updated edition to the international bestseller, the authors show you how to master every aspect of Photoshop -- from image-editing basics to new techniques for working with camera raw images. You'll learn how to retouch, color correct, manipulate, and combine images using Photoshop. You'll discover how to create cutting-edge special effects for digital or film-based images, and use them on the Web or in print. And you'll find out how to use the File Browser, histogram palette, Lens Blur, Match Color, the color replacement tool, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and more. The authors' easy and approachable writing style demystifies even the most complex Photoshop tasks. Order today and master Photoshop CS3.

Back Cover Copy
"This book makes using Photoshop easy. I can enhance old scans and new digital images without losing their authenticity. For that, I am grateful."
— Peter Simon, photojournalist (www.petersimon.com)

The bestselling Photoshop guide just got better

Photoshop CS3 has lots of new features, and this practical guide can help. You'll learn to work with the CS3 interface and many new and improved commands — including enhanced selection tools, a more powerful Clone Stamp, new Vanishing Point capabilities, and added Animation and Timeline features. You'll also discover how to create super special effects, build great composite images, and perform true miracles with your digital and 3D images, whether they're bound for print, the Web, or handheld devices.

• Master the new workspace, from the toolbox to the palettes to the Bridge
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  Correct color and lighting, restore damaged images of all kinds
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  Take control of your images with selections, masks, and filters
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  Bring words into your pictures and make text flow along a path
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  Explore advanced topics, tricks, and specialized techniques

What's on the CD-ROM?

• Full-color images used in the book, so you can experiment and explore
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  Tutorials covering some of Photoshop's hottest tools and features

System Requirements: See the CD appendix for details and complete system requirements.

16-page color insert
Filled with breathtaking, full-color images, this special section illustrates what you can achieve with Photoshop!

Express yourself with text

Achieve special effects with Smart Filters

Import and edit 3D images

Reader Reviews
My 3 star rate for this book is an average of the 4 points I found interesting. I will write a brief explanation of each of the 4 points and will mark the number of stars I think each point deserves. Content: 5 stars This is probably the best reference book about P CS3 on the market today. However, anyone who buys this book must have this in mind: This is a reference book, it's not a handbook, manual, nor a tutorial. Therefore you won't find many step by step examples. What you will find is a very comprehensive, easy to read (for begginers and experts), explanantion of every single menu, tool and variantion of tools that phosohop has. Probably you won't need to read the entire book or will need all the topics at once, but you will need the book from time to time to review whatever is importat for you at that particular moment. It's amazing how deep it goes around every single topic, nothing is left behind. The book has 1,164 pages, has twenty chapters plus appendixes. The book is divided in six parts: I) welcome to Photoshop; II)Painting and retouching; III) Selection, masks and filters; IV) Layers, Objects and text; V) Color and output; VI) Appendixes Size: 4 stars It's huge, however not heavy, probably less than a pound. Nothing you wouldn't expect for a book like this. The buyer will read it better if the book is over a table not when he is in his bed. Presentation: 0 stars One of the thing that impressed me the most (and I mean negatively) was the poor quality of the paper and the pictures. Yes I know this is a paperback copy, but I was never expecting that this book was going to have black and white photographs, I mean all of them but those in 16 pages. There are some chapters in which the book explains about color managment and it tells things like this (page 955) "camera Raw's Temperature slider takes an image (left) andts you to warm up (right) or cool down (bottom)", presenting 3 small (1 inch by 1.5 inchs, actual size) pictures in white and black that suposedly reflects the explanation about color temperature. Theres's no way you can tell the difference between the color temperature. Exaples like this are many. CD: 2 stars In the Cd you can find some pictures and some viodeo tutorials (11). The CD has some of the pictures that you can see in the book but they are not many and by all means you need more (remember the book has black and white pictures). The video tutorials are very good but impressively, you won't hear a voice explaining the video. I don't know if I am wrong but I was expecting to hear a voice explaining the video, instead of that there are only some text lines that appear from time to time explaining it. Conclusion: This is an excellent reference book and a must have if you work with Photoshop. However if you want to learn more you probably will need to buy a manual or tutorial type book.