Adobe Photoshop CS3 Studio Techniques

by Ben Willmore

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover the new features in CS3. In a friendly, easy-going style that's long on information and short on techno-babble, Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Ben Willmore guides you through the concepts, features that will truly make a difference in how you use Photoshop every day. He takes you from blindly following step-by-step instructions to an in-depth understanding of how Photoshop works, cutting through the fat to focus on what he considers to be Photoshop's essential features. This full-color book delivers the content in three easily digestible sections: Working Foundations, Production Essentials, and Creative Explorations, and includes a companion CD with bonus chapters and practice images so you can quickly and easily apply the techniques covered throughout. Beginning with the working foundations of Photoshop--the basic tools, palettes, layers, and masks, you'll quickly move on to real-world production techniques, such as how to sharpen scans, correct and optimize images, and use the powerful Curves and Channels features to your advantage. Finally, you'll get to fully explore Photoshop's creative potential by blending and enhancing images, creating collages, retouching photographs, colorizing, and working with filters and layer masks. By the time you finish this book, your creativity and efficiency levels should soar and you'll start to feel like you finally "get" Photoshop.

573 pages, Paperback

First published December 20, 2007

About the author

Ben Willmore is an American photographer, author and founder of Digital Mastery, a training and consulting firm that specializes in photography and Photoshop. He is best known for his digital imaging expertise and for writing the book Photoshop Studio Techniques.

Reviews

[Chad Perkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

All of Adobe Press' Studio Techniques books have been remarkable, but this was the first. This is perhaps the best Photoshop book I've ever read in my life. Ben Willmore knows how to break things down so well. I read this book when I was brand new to Photoshop, and now that I'm an Adobe Certified Instructor and Expert in Photoshop, I still get every new version when it comes out. Just an excellent series.

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read and used a number of Photoshop books over the years, and have also taught Photoshop classes. Of the many books I've read, this is the best, hands-down.

It's comprehensive, easy to read and understand, and practical.

If you work through it, you gain a solid understanding of Photoshop and be able to really harness its powerful toolset.

[Libcrypt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Much better than the loads of the formulaic PS-by-numbers out there, this book offers some degree of understanding into the techniques it teaches.