Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Voices)
by Scott Kelby
from Peachpit Press

Editorial Review:

Scott Kelby, the world's #1 bestselling Photoshop author, and the man who changed the Photoshop and digital photography world with his ground-breaking, award-winning "Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers" unveils a exciting, brand new way of thinking, and working in Adobe Photoshop that will not only change the industry again, but it will change the way we all work in Photoshop forever, so we can finally spend less time fixing our images, and more time finishing them.
You're about to become a Photoshop Shark!
Scott has focused in and really narrowed things down to just exactly which Photoshop tools and techniques we absolutely, positively have to know, and he found that there are just seven major tools, seven major features that we have to master to enhance our images like a pro. But then he took it a step further. Out of those seven major tools, he looked at which parts or sections of those tools do we really need to master, and which parts can we pretty much ignore (in other words, he whittled it down so you're not learning parts of the tools that you're probably never going to need). Then, and perhaps most importantly, he determined exactly when and in which order to apply these seven techniques that make up Scott's amazing "Photoshop Seven Point System."
But the magic of this book, is not just listing the seven tools and showing how they work. It's how they're used together, and how Scott teaches them (and makes it stick), that makes this book so unique.  You're not going to just learn one technique for fixing shadows, and another technique for adjusting color (every Photoshop book pretty much does that, right?). Instead, you're going start off at square one, from scratch, as each chapter is just one photo--one project--one challenging lifeless image (you'll follow along using his the same images), and you're going to unleash these seven tools, in a very specific way, and you're going to do it  again, and again, and again, in order on different photos, in different situations, until they are absolutely second nature. You're finally going to do the FULL fix--from beginning to end--with nothing left out, and once you learn these seven very specific techniques, and apply them in order, there won't be a an image that appears on your screen that you won't be able to enhance, fix, edit, and finish yourself!
Plus, Scott's techniques work across a wide range of photos, and that's exactly what you'll be working on in the book, from landscapes to portraits, to architectural, to nature, from event photography to everything in between--there isn't a photo you won't be able to beat!
This is the book you've been waiting for, the industry's been waiting for, and Scott's "Adobe Photoshop Seven Point System" is so revolutionary that he's officially applied for a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and this new system is only found in this amazing, ground breaking new book. Once you learn these techniques, and start applying them yourself, you'll be the next one to say--"You can't beat 'The System!'

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Scott Kelby's Photoshop CS3 book
  HAS BEEN VERY USEFUL IN TAKING MY PHOTOSHOP CLASS.
  ONLY THING I WOULD SUGGEST IS TO LIST THE STEPS RATHER THAN BEING IN PARAGRAPH FORM.

• useful approach but should be taken with a grain of salt
  This is a quite useful book if you use it to expand your knowledge of Photoshop and not try to apply it to your photographic endeavors. Kelby tends to commingle his approach to photography with his knowledge of Photoshop to "fix" images which may not need to be fixed but simply discarded. But that is easy to ignore and focus on the insights Kelby provides on making positive adjustments to images, though one really needs to work in the 16-bit world to get the most benefit and avoid the distortions that... more info

• Mindless, but useful
  If you're the type of person who just wants someone to tell you what steps to follow to achieve a certain effect, and who doesn't want to learn the underlying reasons for anything, this book is for you. If you are entertained by lame humor accompanying your cookie-cutter instructions, this book is also for you. If you really want to learn Photoshop thoroughly so you can handle any situation that pops up in a creative way, you'll have to turn elsewhere. Ironically, reading a lot of Scott's books, as well as... more info

• 7 point system
  This book helps you in establishing an effective workflow by reinforcing a good working 'order'.
  Some of the techniques used within the steps are a matter of choice and, in my opinion, not always the most effective, but the theory of which step first, second etc is spot on.
  Starting with Camera Raw each and every time, and using it multiple times in reworking an image is bang on.
  Would recommend this for anyone wishing to nail down good working habits.
  Well worth the money.

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