The Photoshop World Dream Team Book

by Scott Kelby

PhotoshopWorld. It's where each year the most gifted, brilliant, and creative Photoshop gurus in the world gather to share their latest techniques, the newest tips, and their slickest Photoshop tricks with members of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). These eager Photoshop users come from as far away as Singapore, Australia, Europe, Japan, Africa, China, and dozens of other countries around the world just to learn from this "dream team" of photographers, designers, educators, videographers, and creative geniuses. Now, they've come together again, here in the first book of it's kind that brings this PhotoshopWorld Instructor Dream Team together--but this time they're teaching you. Within its pages, you'll learn their secrets--their latest tips, tricks, tutorials and techniques using Adobe Photoshop CS. This is a truly unique opportunity to learn one-one-one from the same famous names you see up on the big PhotoshopWorld stage. You'll learn from world-reknown gurus like Photoshop User Editor Scott Kelby, Author of Photoshop Studio Techniques Ben Willmore, Award-winning digital photographer Jim DiVitale, Pioneering Photoshop illustrator and artist Bert Monroy, Photoshop Hall of Famer Jack Davis, Fashion Photography Guru Kevin Ames, Photoshop User Creative Director Felix Nelson, Adobe's own Julieanne Kost, Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour Leader Dave Cross, and many more. Plus you'll get a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like being at PhotoshopWorld, (the after hour events, panels, parties, art competitions, the expo floor--the works) and what it's like learning from the best and brightest minds in the digital imaging industry today. This is your chance to learn from the "Dream Team" yourself and become a part of very special legacy, and learn techniques that can only be shared here, in this unique book featuring today's Photoshop masters, and tomorrow's Photoshop legends.

304 pages, Paperback

First published July 16, 2004

About the author

Scott Kelby is an American author and publisher of periodicals dealing in Macintosh and Personal Computer software, specifically for design professionals, photographers, and artists.

Kelby is editor and publisher of Photoshop User and Layers magazines, president and co-founder of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and is president of Kelby Media Group, an Oldsmar, Florida-based software training, education, and publishing firm.
Kelby is a photographer, designer, and the award-winning author of more than 40 books.

Reviews

[kimberly · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got one good thing out of here, which was the lens blur depth mask tutorial. Everything else... meh. I have no need to recreate cars and 3d-ish images from scratch, nor collage images together in artistic ways.