Photoshop Books

Updated July 18, 2004

There are many books written about Photoshop. Making a selection can be difficult. Our customers have read and used many of these books. Below we try to pass through to you, some of the suggestions on Photoshop that we have received. We are affiliated with Amazon.com, so if you decided to purchase any of these, they will be coming from Amazon.

PMastering Digital Printing by Harald Johnson - $27.96

"Mastering Digital Printing: The Photographer’s and Artist’s Guide to High-Quality Digital Output" is the first in-depth reference to the new world of digital printing for photography and fine art. This authoritative guide provides a thorough introduction to this exploding medium, instruction in the latest digital printing techniques, and an inspiring Gallery Showcase of the best digitally imaged and printed art and photography. Whether you are a photographer, digital or traditional artist, printmaker, art educator, or art marketer, this book will help you master digital printing!

Adobe Photoshop Master Class: John Paul Caponigro by John Paul Caponigro - $35.00

This demonstration includes Photoshop basics that apply to all types of digital imaging, including calibration, adjustment layers, variations, levels, and curves. It also covers visual principles that are essential to photography in general, like proportion, scale, light, and shadows (including Ansel Adams's Zone system), and--important in the author's own work--reflection and tessellation.
Caponigro, an internationally recognized fine-art photographer, provides insight into his creative process. By showcasing his work and carefully explaining the steps he took to produce it, he reveals much about his creative method and his Photoshop techniques. Each chapter is organized around a specific visual theme (i.e. atmospheric perspective, selective focus, and split-toned or subdued-color images) and contains several color and b&w images.

Photoshop 6 Artistry : Mastering the Digital Image by Barry Haynes - $41.99
Each section covers some aspect of Photoshop in detail. The first section goes over tools and functionality; section two shows color correction and how to create a "master digital image"; and section three covers a myriad of color, layer, and selection techniques using chapter-length hands-on projects, including one that covers restoring old photographs. Screen shots are plentiful, as are sample photos and other graphics, and the captions are a skimmer's delight--readers can learn a lot without even reading the full text.

Professional Photoshop 6 by Dan Margulis - $51.99
PEI Magazine says, "This is the best color correction book. It may be the only book you'll ever need on making images look their best. Dan teaches professional color correction seminars all over North America, and has a very likable writting style that engages your interest. If you reproduce images for print, you'll not only like this book you'll praise it."
Paperback - 352 pages Bk&Cd-Rom edition (November 16, 2000) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471403997 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.81 x 9.09 x 7.40

Adobe Photoshop 6 Studio Techniques by Ben Willmore - $53.99
Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Studio Techniques is the definitive guide to mastering the most essential features of Photoshop. Experienced Photoshop instructor Ben Willmore provides lessons that will help all users truly understand this popular image editing software. The text starts out with basic Photoshop techniques and moves on to more complex tasks and features,including layers, resolution, line art scanning, compositing, color correction, and displaying images on the Web. With these concepts and skills explained in a `technobabble-free' way, readers will master even the most complex Photoshop concepts. This is not a special effects cookbook or a primer on digital design; rather, this reader-friendly book is designed to boost users' productivity by showing how and why to use certain Photoshop tools.

Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing (w/disk) by Dan Burkholder - $34.95

Offers a sense of humor, in the face of technology., May 17, 1999.
Reviewer: lennawinther@juno.com from Fresno, California
When you feel as if PhotoShop's digital data has just side swiped you, this book will give you legs. A step by step guide allowing alternative process diehards to boldly go into the 21st century.
This book is a step by step guide to affordable enlarged negatives for platinum, silver, and other printing process. It provides great insight into how to use Photoshop to produce black and white images.

Photoshop 6 Down and Dirty Tricks by Scott Kelby - $31.96
The author Scott Kelby certainly knows how to be down to earth in his Down & Dirty Tricks book. I found his style to be simple enough for the occasional photoshop user as well as time saving tips for the professional needing to meet tight deadlines and please a variety of clients. What impressed me most was the abundance of helpful tips on a wide range of subjects and the step by step approach found throughout the book. I found the sections on drop shadow effects and working with type especially helpful to me in order to satisfy my clients' needs that have a limited budget but still need incredible looking pieces. I enjoyed the overall layout of the book and the fact that it showed you color results of what you are looking to achieve. I would highly recommend this book to the beginner as well as the professional looking to always expand his knowledge, surely this book will do that for them; and at a price both could afford. Out of all the books I own about photoshop, this one will certainly NOT grow dust!

Professional Photoshop 5: The Classic Guide to Color Correction by Dan Margulis- $51.99
All the filters, selection techniques, and other bells and whistles won't matter if you can't make the image look good in print. When the first edition of Professional Photoshop published, it not only changed the workflow of professional photographers and retouchers, but also attracted non-experts with its intuitive, interactive approach. This fully revised edition continues emphasizing by-the-numbers correction, and teaches:

Precision control of unsharp masking
Channel blending to build contrast
The pivotal role of the black plate
Control of every facet of the separation process
How to cope with the new color settings of Photoshop 5
The unwanted color and how to exploit it
The power of correction in the LAB colorspace
How to handle prescreened originals
Restoration of older, damaged artwork
Duotones and other uses of fifth color

The Digital Darkroom : Black-And-White Techniques Using Photoshop by George Schaub- $29.95
The Digital Darkroom takes a conventional darkroom technician's approach to a favorite and powerful image editing tool, Adobe Photoshop. With opening discussions on the nature of film versus digital images, and how they relate to printing, this is an excellent book for photographers entering the digital realm, including new users of Photoshop with an eye for black and white printing.

How to Photograph the Outdoors in Black and White by George Schaub - $15.96

"An excellent resource for the nature photographer who'd like to expand into black and white, George Schaub's book packs a solid one-two punch of inspirational photos and educational text."--Peter Kolonia, senior editor, Popular Photography.
This practical guide, the ninth in Stackpole's popular How to Photograph series, shows in clear text and a wealth of photos how to "see" in black and white, select film and accessories, and use your equipment to master the classic medium of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Minor White.
George Schaub teaches at the New School/Parsons School of Design in New York. He has written many books on photography and is a frequent contributor to Shutterbug's Outdoor & Nature Photography. He lives on Long Island.

Adobe Photoshop 6.0 for Photographers by Martin Evening - $39.95
Adobe Photoshop 6.0 for Photographers begins with an introduction to working with digital images, providing essential information on everything from scanning devices to color management and output issues. Practical workshops show you how to master the essential techniques, such as optimizing an image for prepress, color correction, retouching techniques, layers palette management, toning a black and white image, rendering textures and so on. Each technique is described in step-by-step detail, showing exactly which command to use, whether you're working with a Mac or PC. The accompanying free CD-ROM contains invaluable movie tutorials and a selection of images to experiment with. If you are just beginning to work with digital images or are looking for new ideas, the best techniques and ways to improve the quality of your work, this is the book for you!

Real World Photoshop 6 by Blatner & Fraser - $34.99
Although this cornucopia of tips, tricks, explanations, and experienced wisdom would be useful to any Photoshop user, those most likely to benefit, and benefit a lot, are graphic designers and others working on prepress production. From bit depth to monitor settings, gamut warnings, and file formats, this book faces all those nasty problems that designers often want the service bureau or printer to fix, but really should handle themselves (if they want to have the most control over how their artwork prints).
The first chapters deal with hardware (platform, RAM), what's new in version 6, tools, palettes and dialog boxes, and resolution and color issues (including the complex area of color profiles and monitor calibration). Then there's tonal correction (using histograms and levels), RGB vs. CMYK, adjustment layers, sharpening, spot colors and duotones, working in black and white, and scanning. The last chapters explore selections (paths, masks, and channels), storage options and file formats, output methods (halftones, saving for use in Quark, PageMaker, or InDesign), and even preparing images for onscreen viewing.

Photoshop 6 Digital Darkroom by Lisa Lee - $39.99
Photoshop 6 is Adobe's well-received, highly acclaimed update to its most popular product. Adobe Photoshop 6 Digital Darkroom is a full-color tutorial-based book that shows you how to work step by step with digital pictures. Learn how to use the newest features in Photoshop, as well as more traditional tasks such as correcting colors, applying effects, and working with layers, channels, and masks. This is a cross-platform guide that shows you how to use Photoshop to create great-looking digital pictures for your Web site. Intermediate to advanced Photoshop users will benefit most from this book.

Re-Engineering the Photo Studio by Joe Farace - $15.16
Re-Engineering the Photo Studio shows photographers of all specialties how to use digital technology to upgrade their studios into competitive, self-sufficient operations, heighten the quality of their images, and increase profits. It tackles the hottest issues facing photographers today: how to get ahead of the fast-breaking changes in the business, provide customers with the most up-to-date services, and prepare for the technological advances of the future.

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