Recommended Books
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Selections
Channels
Basic Layers
Basic Pen
Color Management
Homemade Letterhead
Color Correction
Curves, Levels, or Brightness/Contrast?
Combining Images
Combining Images II
Dodge and Burn
Duotones
Abstract Background
Make a Frame
3D Wire Text
Quick Mask
Adjusting Contrast
Using Curves
Scanning Negatives
Rubberstamping
More Adjustments
Sharpening
Filters
Color
Doodling
For Beginners
Adobe Photoshop
5.5 Classroom in a Book (Web Edition)
Retails for $45.00, Amazon has it for $31.50. The CIB series
is an excellent starting point for total beginners in any of the Adobe
applications. Highly recommended.
Adobe Photoshop
6.0 Classroom in a Book
Ditto the above. Retails for $45.00. Amazon has it for $36.00.
Inside Adobe Photoshop
6
by Gary David Bouton, Gary Kubicek, Mara Nathanson, and Barbara Mancuso
Bouton. Amazon price is $35.99. This book is not perfect, but it's the
best of all the big, fat readily available Photoshop books for beginners.
Deke McClelland's
Look & Learn Photoshop 6
Well illustrated and thorough, though many of the step by step descriptions
are confusing. Retails for $19.99. Amazon has it for $15.99.
Intermediate
Photoshop in a
Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference
by Donnie O'Quinn, retails for $24.95, Amazon has it for $19.96. This
is an excellent resource. Highly recommended. For version 5.5 or before.
They don't seem to be planning a version 6.0 edition.
Photoshop 6 for
Windows Bible
by Deke McClelland - $39.99, Amazon has it for $31.99. Thorough, but disorganized.
Real World Photoshop
5 : Industrial Strength Production Techniques
by Dave Blatner and Bruce Fraser, retails for $44.99, Amazon price is
$35.99. A little bit confusing to read, but has a lot of very useful information.
Note that Real World Photoshop 6 is due out February 9, 2001.
Advanced
Professional Photoshop
6: The Classic Guide to Color Correction
by Dan Marqulis retails for $64.99, Amazon has it for $51.99. I have no
idea why this is so expensive. It's a paperback, 320 pages, but does have
a lot of illustrations. If you can afford it, this is a fantastic resource
for advanced color correction techniques. Well written, and extremely
interesting.
Bert Monroy: Photorealistic
Techniques with Photoshop & Illustrator
by Bert Monroy. Retails for $49.99, Amazon has it for $39.99. This includes
Illustrator techniques, but has some amazing, creative effects. Not silly,
party tricks stuff, but really beautiful art. I think it's worth having
just for the ideas it will give you for new ways of making original artwork
with Photoshop.
Related
Real World Scanning
Halftones
by David Blatner, Glenn Fleishman, and Stephen F. Roth retails
for $29.95, Amazon has it for $23.96. Answers scanning questions, and
has a lot of printing information as well.
The Non-Designer's
Design Book
by Robin Williams retails for $14.95, Amazon has it for $13.45. Good,
basic information that is clearly presented. And, very funny. Highly recommended.
I own a ton of Photoshop books and at least 90% of them are terrible. Buyer beware. These types of books are expensive, and some of them are totally useless, silly, confusing, and really have a discouraging effect on would-be Photoshop users.
If I list a book on this page, I promise it's good, solid, and reasonably well-written.
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