Photoshop Book -any recomendations?

Funkyzeit

Hi Folks.
Any help appreicated !

Covey

Got this a couple of weeks ago, still wading through it. Very good indeed.

http://www.photoshopforphotographers.com/pscs2/index2.htm

T.

georgey

I have that book too, its fantastic, but it all depends what level you are coming in at, the first book I got was, and dont laugh! was pS for dummys now if you mare looking for something to get you up and running this is second to none!

Valentia

Martin Evening's book is good, if only he didn't keep going on about getting the shots ready for publication. It would be about a third shorter and a lot easier to read. It's still an excellent book if slightly frustrating.

Scott Kelby is my favourite. No bull$hit. He just gets on with it in bitesize chunks. Very readable and very very practical. Have a look This, and this .

CONMIKE12

If you are just starting out with PS,I'd recommend Scott kelby.. any of his books really.They are very well laid out and assume you are clueless.Marting evenings one assumes a certain amout of knowledge.I have books from both authors and find kelbys ones a lot easier to follow.. hope this helps.

unreggd

Photo retouching and Restoration for Dummies is great

even comes with a PS and Imageready trial

5uspect

Scott Kelby and friends do a great video podcast too.
Photoshop TV

Gyalist

I agree with the recommended Scott Kelby books and would like to add this book by Deke McClelland to the list.

B0rG

If selections, layers, color modes, crop etc is not a secret for you, then get this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Photoshop-Restoration-Retouching-Voices-Matter/dp/0321316274/sr=8-1/qid=1170067918/ref=pd_ka_1/202-7576252-0291826?ie=UTF8&s=books

There are about 200 - 300 good retouching techniques, grouped for various type of usage: portait, color correction, landscapes, glamour.

And then some Margulis for a good background info - those two are considered classics of digital retouch.

I didn't like previous book of McCleland thought it was paid-per-page type of book, so paper is bad, it's black and white, illustrations are bad, language is pretentious with some kind of humour... nah.

Again, what area do you wanna go? Digital retouch, color correction, dtp, digital lab?

jlang

I'm working my way through Dan Margulis' "Professional Photoshop (5th Edition) - The Classic Guide to Color Correction"
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Photoshop-Classic-Guide-Correction/dp/032144017X

It's not really light reading and definitely not a beginner's guide, but there's enough there that even though I'm only as far as Chapter 3, I feel I'm really learning something, not just skipping looking up commands in a help file.

I bought it and Martin Evening's book on Amazon a few weeks ago for less than this one cost on it's own off the shelf in Hodges Figgis.

B0rG

jlang wrote:

I'm working my way through Dan Margulis' "Professional Photoshop (5th Edition) - The Classic Guide to Color Correction"
http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Photoshop-Classic-Guide-Correction/dp/032144017X

It's not really light reading and definitely not a beginner's guide, but there's enough there that even though I'm only as far as Chapter 3, I feel I'm really learning something, not just skipping looking up commands in a help file.

I bought it and Martin Evening's book on Amazon a few weeks ago for less than this one cost on it's own off the shelf in Hodges Figgis.

try Eismann first - she gives "ready2go" recipies, whereas Margulis is more on the theoretical side of the force I'd go first with Eismann to get the tricks, then margulis to get enuff theory to invent your own tricks.

jlang

Thanks B0rG, I've seen good recommendations for her book too. I think it was the title and cover blurb on the Eisman book that made me think it wasn't general enough as I felt it might be more specific to a different application (mention of restoration/recovery and faded old photos - I don't want to think of my stuff as faded/old after i just downloaded it!). In time, she may join Brian, Dan and Martin on my shelf! In truth, I had missed your mention of Margulis and thought I was raising the book for the first time on the thread.

Not sure really why I ordered Evening's book at the same time and I don't regret having done so - it should be worth it too. I suppose that's the way with shopping, particularly online shipping.

I certainly didn't want to give the impression that Margulis would be the best or even a sensible place to start out, but the OP wasn't specific about what they wanted. As someone who's comfortable finding stuff through Google and who would probably look there first, I suspected that a Scott Kelby book would probably be redundant given the amount of information/tutorials/recipes/step-by-steps etc out there through Google, you friendly folks on boards.ie, and many many more websites. Of course, for many others, his books would be perfect.

(To a beginner who wants to improve, I'd give another recommendation for the radiantvista.com video tutorials, but I won't coz this is a book thread!)