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Photoshop 7 Photographers' Guide (Miscellaneous) (Miscellaneous)

By: David D. Busch
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Muska & Lipman Publishing
ISBN: 1929685688
ISBN-13: 9781929685684
Released: 29 May 2002
RRP: £29.99
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Disappointing, not much creativity. - By: , 25 Feb 2003
As the title suggests, this book explores Photoshop from the photographers perspective. Having taken a photo you may want to correct errors in composition, duplicate effects/filters you could have used when taking the photo, duplicate effects that you would traditionallly have applied in the darkroom. All this & more is available in Photoshop & this book takes you through it using a very simple step-by-step approach. In the main though, the book keeps it rather too simple. Many of the effects are achieved by using a particular filter or tool in Photoshop, e.g. create a grainy effect by applying one of the various grain filters. I don't need another book to tell me that, when an hour or two with the software & on-line help is just as good. I was hoping to go beyond the Photoshop manual with photographic/darkroom effects produced by more detailed use of the tools & combinations of filters applied to the same image, but I didn't find it here. I was also interested in converting colour images to monochrome & while it does go beyond use of the 'convert to greyscale' tool, I still found it just scratched the surface & left me needing to know a lot more. The book contains a little too much padding for my liking & a whole chapter on the basic use of a set of 3rd party filters is just poorly disguised advertising.
The chapter on printing is also very simple.
I think the book broadly meets its objective for beginners (to photography AND Photoshop) but I was left very disappointed.