After years of fielding questions at seminars from Photoshop users, Dave Cross realized there was a lot of common ground: there were many questions that were indeed “frequently asked.” In addition, most questions seemed to start with “How come I can’t….” “How do I….” or “Why won’t the (fill in the blank) tool work?”

This book addresses the most common problems and questions in Photoshop by both providing answers to the most frequently asked questions, and outlining strategies that can help you avoid problems in the first place.

Bruce would be too self-effacing to mention this (his publisher isn’t) but today on Amazon, Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2 was #1 in the Computer & Internet category and an impressive #93 of all books on Amazon.com’s sales rank overall.

While being #1 in the Computer & Internet category is in itself impressive, for a computer industry book-let alone a book directed to digital photographers-to break the top 100 books on Amazon.com really is a feat.

Martin Evening called from London to say that the first 2000 copies of his new book, Photoshop CS2 for Photographers are on the way to the US. So early buyers should be receiving their copies soon. He also pointed out an odd situation in regard to his book’s listing on Amazon.com.

It seems Amazon has screwed up the book title on it’s page and re-named it How to Cheat in Photoshop. See the screen capture below.

As a serious digital photographer, you need the greatest possible control over your images. In the newly updated edition of his popular camera raw guide, best-selling author Bruce Fraser gives you just that.

You’ll learn how to take advantage of Adobe Camera Raw using Adobe Photoshop CS2 to set white balance, optimize contrast and saturation, handle noise, correct tint, recover lost detail in images before converting them to another format, and more.

Download a sample chapter and read an interview with Bruce Fraser.

At the recent Adobe ideas conference in New York City, photographer Chris Rainier gave a session about a recent book project, ANCIENT MARKS: The Sacred Origins of Tattoos and Body Marking. Part of the session was about the unusual manner in which the book evolved, was produced and finally published.

The ANCIENT MARKS book and Exhibition explore the intrinsic connection between mankind’s culture and the old tradition of marking the human body dating back two thousand years, with tattoos and scarification as a form of initiation, beauty, and highly ritualized ornamentation.

John Wiley & Sons says firm pulled all of its books following spat over unauthorized Jobs biography.

Martin Evening, author of the new book Photoshop CS2 for Photographers has posted two complete PDF chapters from the new book. What’s new in Adobe Photoshop CS2 (noted in a previous PSN article) and an additional chapter about, Color management in Adobe Photoshop CS2.

See the downloads page

Martin Evening tells us he’s just wrapped up writing his new book Photoshop CS2 for Photographers and sent it off to his publishers, Focal Press. The new edition of this best selling book should be hitting the streets in mid to end of May–just about the time Photoshop CS2 starts shipping.

As a special perk for PhotoshopNews readers, Martin has made his Chapter 1: What’s New in Photoshop CS2 available for download. The 21 page PDF, outlines all the new features of Photoshop CS2 and Bridge from a user’s perspective. It’s a good read for anybody who want’s to really know what’s NEW!

Press Release: Creating Photomontages with Photoshop : A Designer’s Notebook

Source: Dan Sherree

Book Review: Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS by Bruce Fraser

Having read Out of Gamut: Calibrating Camera Raw in Photoshop CS offsite on Creative Pro offsite back in May and then seeing subsequent rumblings that this information was from a new Real World book, I was excited about Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS offsite, by Bruce Fraser, before it was even printed. The Real World offsite series of books—of which I’ve read several—focuses on getting the job done; the tagline to these books is “industrial-strength production techniques.” By focusing on getting the task done, these books show and tell what you need to know to create a productive workflow.

Source: Dry Creek Photo

Real World Color Management, Second Edition.
By Fraser, Murphy, Bunting

All aspects of color management are covered here, from basic theory to how the elements of your digital work flow use and interpret color.

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