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ARE YOU READY FOR AN AMAZING NEW VERSION OF THE PHOTOSHOP BOOK THAT BREAKS ALL THE RULES?

Scott Kelby, Editor and Publisher of Photoshop User magazine – and the best-selling Photoshop author in the world today – once again takes this book to a whole new level as he uncovers more of the latest, most important, and most useful Adobe Photoshop CS6 techniques for digital photographers.

This major update to his award-winning, record-breaking book does something for digital photographers that’s never been done before – it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly “how to do it.” It’s not a bunch of theory; it doesn’t challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure it out on your own. Instead, Scott shows you step by step the exact techniques used by today’s cutting-edge digital photographers, and best of all, he shows you flat-out exactly which settings to use, when to use them, and why. That’s why the previous editions of this book are widely used as the official study guides in photography courses at colleges and universities around the world.

LEARN HOW THE PROS DO IT

Each year, Scott trains thousands of professional photographers on how to use Photoshop, and almost without exception they have the same questions, the same problems, and the same challenges – and that’s exactly what he covers in this book. You’ll learn:

The sharpening techniques the pros really use.
The pros’ tricks for fixing the most common digital photo problems fast!
The step-by-step setup for getting what comes out of your printer to match exactly what you see onscreen.
How to process HDR (High Dynamic Range) images using CS6’s Merge to HDR Pro.
How to master CS6’s Content-Aware features.
How to use Photoshop CS6’s new video editing features to make movies from your DSLR videos.
How to process RAW images like a pro (plus how to take advantage of all the new Camera Raw features in CS6!).
The latest Photoshop special effects for photographers (there’s a whole chapter just on these!).
A host of shortcuts, workarounds, and slick “insider” tricks to send your productivity through the roof!

Plus, Scott includes a special bonus chapter with his own CS6 workflow, from start to finish, and each chapter ends with a Photoshop Killer Tips section, packed with timesaving, job-saving tips that make all the difference. If you’re a digital photographer, and if you’re ready to learn all the “tricks of the trade” – the same ones that today’s leading pros use to correct, edit, sharpen, retouch, and present their work―then you’re holding the book that will do just that.

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August 9, 2012: All binding issues mentioned in our July 31, 2012 note below have been resolved. Thank you.

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Scott Kelby is Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine, President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), Training Director for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour, and one of the leading seminar instructors in the industry today. Scott is author of the best-selling books The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book for Digital Photographers, Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks, and The Digital Photography Book (parts 1, 2, 3 & 4), among others. His easygoing, plain-English style of teaching makes learning Photoshop fun. He trains thousands in his live seminars each year and knows firsthand which techniques are in hot demand, and now he shares them here in his latest book.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Riders; 1st edition (July 12, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321823745
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321823748
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.95 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.88 x 1.07 x 9.89 inches

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Photographer, award-winning author, Editor of Photoshop User magazine, Publisher of Lightroom magazine, founder of the annual 'Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk,' CEO of the KelbyOne Online Educational Community for Photographers, Lightroom and Photoshop users; co-host of the live weekly photography podcast "The Grid," Conference Technical Chair for the annual Photoshop World Conference, and struggling guitar player.

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Customers find the book's instructions clear and easy to follow. They find the information useful and valuable, providing hints about how to solve issues and get the best results for different situations. The book helps them manage Photoshop better with its examples and free files. Readers appreciate the author's sense of humor and entertaining writing style. They also appreciate the great image quality and illustrations. Overall, customers consider it a good resource and well worth the money.

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tim32225
Another great book from Scott Kelby
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2013
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The CS6 Book for Digital Photographers is the latest in the series from Scott Kelby, now updated to include the latest features in Photoshop. CS6 is a pretty extensive software upgrade with a good number of new features, and Kelby does well once again to get to the nuts and bolds of using them in a practical way, without getting bogged down in theory or semantics.

Like the previous books in the series, it's not necessary to read the sections of the book in any particular order. Each individual section shows how to perform a particular function, giving practical examples and actual settings, so you can skip around the book and focus in on things that you feel are particularly relevant to your particular workflow.

This latest version covers several new topics including editing video from your DSLR, and processing and editing images using the "Merge to HDR Pro" feature. I personally have only dabbled a little bit with HDR images in the past and have not managed so far to get the results I wanted. But flipping through this part of the book reveals many useful suggestions, and specific instructions for what settings to use as a starting point. Scott even explains how to establish some presets for HDR that will work well in most situations to deliver the goods. After doing this, you can begin to make adjustments where desired. This has made me eager to give HDR another try since it seems that Kelby has filled in a lot of the 'blanks' that were bogging me down previously.

The video editing section is another great plus in this book, and stumbling across this section is actually the first time I realized that Photoshop CS6 can also be used to edit video, without needing to purchase the 'extended' software version. Scott explains what it can and cannot do, and how to use the video editing features effectively. CS6 does not give you the full functionality of a dedicated video editing program such as Premier Pro, but Scott shows how you can use what is there to edit the typical videos that most folks produce with today's latest model DSLRs. It's exciting to know that many of the same editing tools we commonly use when editing still photos can now be applied to video clips as well.

CS6 gives even more control for raw image processing than previous versions, and Kelby goes into some detail about how to do portrait editing right there in Adobe Camera Raw. After the CS5 upgrade, I found myself doing more and more editing in camera raw and less in Photoshop itself. With CS6 you will likely find yourself going even further in that direction.

As with previous editions in this series, each chapter concludes with a "Photoshop Killer Tips" section to give you a few more gems that were not included in the chapter.

If you enjoyed the previous versions in this series, then you will probably love this latest edition. And you'll also find yourself quickly getting up to speed with the updated features and controls in Photoshop CS6.

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TammyH
Delivered Consistent Results
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2012
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I purchased this book for an introductory Photoshop web class at the community college. It is, hands down, the best text book I have purchased! It WAS the entire class from start to finish.

As I worked my way from the front cover to the back following each step it delivered the results as promised. I downloaded and used Scott's pictures to follow along with his instructions. Each procedure was flawless and easy to understand. The author takes information that could be somewhat dry and makes it interesting and, at times, humorous.

By the time I finished the book I had a thorough understanding of the basics of Photoshop CS6. I now use the book as a reference manual for the techniques I choose to use on my own work.

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Julio
A good practical Book
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2012
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It is a complete practical book designed for any who wants to get results immediately.

The book is divided in twelve chapters. Each chapter starts with an intro that definitely I don't like, but as the author mention at the introduction you can skip, and after few chapters, you realize that's what you are forced to do.

Each topic inside the book is explained with certain steps that you can follow very easy. Most of the topics are well explained in two pages some more sophisticated in four, the text is at the sides with excellent photos showing all the steps.

At the end of each chapter there exist a resume of the important tips. It is called "Photoshop Killer Tips". Once that you followed the examples inside each chapter it will be very easy, on the future, review the last page to remember the important facts.

All the video features of Photoshop are covered in one chapter "The Videodrome", for sure it is not enough if you plan to make professional videos, but it is a good starting point.

The last chapter called "My Photoshop CS6 Digital Photography Workflow" explains in 13 steps how to perform an excellent adjustment. For sure this chapter only can be written by a person with a lot of practical experience as a photographer and as a Photoshop guru.

As an engineer I will like to have more technical details, but definitively this is not the objective of this completely practical book. Beside the jokes at the middle of the steps, is a good material that you must have in your Photoshop book collection.

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Melanie McNamara
Perfect for me....
Reviewed in Canada on January 4, 2014
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I was so happy to acquire this book. I had borrowed it many weeks from the local library and so I knew it was what I wanted. Scott Kelby has always been one of my favorites and even though I struggle with learning PS at my age....he manages to make it fall into place.

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Alessandro Baffa
It is actually a book about Camera Raw
Reviewed in France on January 12, 2014
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Well, I'm quite disappointed. The book is not about Photoshop CS6 at all, but rather about Camera Raw. Photoshop is just mentioned here and there for a couple of examples, but most of the book is about Camera Raw. Scott Kelby is a great marketing guy, but their products are not worth the money.

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RG da Roma
Eccellente libro, come ci si aspetta da Scott Kelby
Reviewed in Italy on May 28, 2013
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Ho acquistato l'edizione in inglese, perché conosco la lingua perfettamente. Consiglierei a tutti i fotografi esperti l'edizione italiana. Si legge e si consulta con piacere e con profitto, ed è piano di trucchi e suggerimenti che funzionano. Una sola raccomandazione: se non siete fotografi esperti o almeno volete diventarlo, forse non è il libro per voi.

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Martin Blume
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Reviewed in Germany on December 17, 2012
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Für mich beweist Scott Kelby auch in diesem "Workbook" seine Klasse: leicht zu lesen, und vor allem so gegliedert, daß man individuell und problem-spezifisch in die verschiedenen Kapitel einsteigen kann. Im Vergleich zur deutschen Ausgabe ist das Buch im Layout etwas größer, dadurch sind die Screenshots besser lesbar. Außerdem sind die jeweiligen Pinseleinstellungen abgebildet, was ich als sehr hilfreich empfinde – während diese willkürlicherweise in der der deutschen Ausgabe fehlen!

Letztendlich muß jeder Leser und Anwender den Autoren/Lehrer finden, der im persönlich liegt. Mit diesen wird das Selbststudium zur wahren Freude. Bei mir sind es Scott Kelby, Matt Kloskowski und Maike Jarsetz.

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Practical and sound advice
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2012
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A feature of Scott Kelby's approach is the practicality that he brings to the table. He explains things simply and with a dose of humour, that makes him a superb guide to users with easy to follow instructions laid out in logical order.

Rather than detail the content (which you can see from the helpful "Look Inside" feature), it might be more helpful to compare three of the most widely used of the myriad of Photoshop user guides that are on the market - Photoshop CS6 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers)), Scott Kelby's Adobe Photoshop CS6 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) and Adobe Photoshop CS6 for Photographers: A professional image editor's guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC.

The Dummies book is best for those completely new to Adobe Photoshop and indeed to image processing software. Unlike the other two, it is more general and so includes more on the creative art or design elements of the software. It's well organized, logical and clear. While none of the three books come with a CD of photos, the Dummies is the only one not to provide web-based images that you can work on along with the book. In fact, it's less of an instruction book and more of a general resource, although it is laid out such that you can work through it if you want to with your own images. The trademark List of 10s contained in Dummies works well here - and is less of a stretch than it can sometimes be in the series. For the new user it's very, very good indeed.

Kelby though is still my "go-to guy" for Photoshop. With Kelby you get the feeling that you are being given advice from someone who uses this software day in day out and really knows the best ways to organize your workflow. It's the shortest of the three books and is strongest for those who have upgraded from earlier versions or indeed come up from Elements. First time users will get something out of this book but it's far from comprehensive. Neither is it helpful for the graphic design elements. The biggest loss is that while he provides one of his excellent workflow examples, unlike some of his earlier Elements guides, this is a general one and doesn't detail for example different workflows for say landscape and portraits. I still refer to an old Elements guide of his for this. If you are upgrading though, this is the one I'd go for, but you may need one of the other two for the missing bits.

The Martin Evening book is a veritable brick of a book. It's longer than the other two put together. Comprehensive isn't the work but it's best for those who like to know why things happen rather than just what to do. He explains the technical bits behind the processes well. If you are the type of person who loves to read instruction manuals - this is the one for you. I find it much drier than the other two. Both Kelby and the Dummies range are known for a quirky sense of humour - Evening possesses none of this. I was around 170 pages into it before it got to something you could do with the images you can download from the website. It's a superb reference book to have but less user friendly as a guide. It's more technical and best suited to those who are already knowledgeable about both Adobe and ideally Photoshop.

Irritatingly, all have something to offer and none are cheap. I love the practicality of Kelby and remain a fan - and in fact one of the negatives about his style, his quirky humour, is more restrained here. Ideally you will want to back this up with either of the other two though - which one depends on your previous experience with the software and, to a lesser extent, the type of person you are. If you crave detail and technical information, Evening is unsurpassed. If you are newer and want a more basic introduction, you don't need to be a Dummy to benefit from the Dummies series.

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