Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 703 pages
- Published by: Peachpit Press
- Edition: 3rd Edition December 1998
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 020135375X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0201353754
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Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches
- Weighs: 3.7 pounds
Product Review
If you use Photoshop as a regular part of your work but frequently find problems as you work with image capture, color and grayscale manipulation, and output, you'll need to get a copy of
Real World Photoshop 5: Industrial-Strength Production Techniques. The authors focus on teaching professionals how to accomplish typical real-life production tasks quickly and effectively.
They use great detail to explain how Photoshop addresses color, explaining color-related issues such as the differences between RGB, CMYK, and other color models. In doing so, they help you work with Photoshop's color management systems, including its newly "device-independent" RGB editing space, along with other tonal and color-correction tools.
Other sections of the book explain subjects like bitmaps, resolution, resampling, Image Mode, and layer manipulation. You'll also find help on storing images in the various available formats, on printing your images, and on preparing your images for multimedia and the Web. With its handsome, colorful design and its clear explanations of technologies and features, this book is a good guide for production professionals who need help increasing their knowledge of Photoshop, working through its quirks and limitations, and taking advantage of its shortcuts and lesser known features.
--Kathleen Caster
From Library Journal
Photoshop used to be a relatively simple program to use. Now, it is not unusual to find more of your window devoted to palettes than to the artwork. Photoshop has become so complex that power users need books such as this one with information on everything from managing the system, either Mac or Wintel, to tonal corrections and using a digital darkroom, to output methods for print, CD, or the web. Not for beginners, this is an great title for advanced users.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reader Reviewswhile this book does have a lot of useful info, there are a few things i don't like about it. for starters, there is NO cd. most books come with a cd full of imges and other goodies. that may seem like a minor detail, but it would be nice to be able to have the same images from the book in order to practice on. the other thing i dislike about this book and this is my biggest complaint is the very bad rosette pattern of the halftone dots. it is so bad, that in some cases it's hard to see the "before and after" effect in the images. i also don't like the fact that all of the curves in the book are backwards!!!!! i have been drawing curves before DTP ever exsisted, and find it very hard to do things backwards and i have yet to see anyone use curves in that manner in the working world. the authors also seem to place too much emphasis on histograms...in my 7 years of working in Photoshop, i've never seen anyone call up a histogram and use it for any sort of work yet the authors make it seem like it's an everyday thing for people to judge images with a histogram...these are minor rants, but i'd recommend the Photoshop bible to people before this book.....real world Photoshop is definitely a book to own, but not as a first Photoshop book....
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