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Summary: Good direction, sometimes questionable results
Comment: Mr. Kelby's book is clearly written, well-illustrated, and is filled with useful techniques. You can rest assured that after completing the exercises that you will have a firm understanding on how to achieve the particular look evangelized within.
It's your call whether or not that look is what you'd like.
Personally, I find some of his results to have an over-processed look. This is most likely due to the fact that his work is destined for print. What oftentimes looks good on screen comes out flat or drab once on paper. I found myself lowering the effects about 10% or so.
I have lots of 1- and 2-star images, those without any chance of redemption. I have far fewer 4-stars or 5-stars. This book isn't for those.
This book is for your 3-star photographs, your C+ photographs. The ones that you keep coming back to, again and again. They're not yet great and perhaps you don't consciously recognize their potential, but there's something that draws you to them.
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Summary: great system to improve any photqgraph
Comment: Scott's 7 point system will help to greatly improve your photos. The steps are easy to follow and in the order you should use them. You wont use every step on every photo, but by the end of the book you will be proficient in all of them & will be able to use the ones you need for each individual photo.
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Summary: Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3
Comment: Very helpful. Opened my eyes to a different approach. Have gone back and revisited previously processed files achieving much better results. Highly recommended.
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Summary: MY KIND OF INSTRUCTION BOOK!
Comment: I learn a lot of techniques from books, and this is probably the best one I've used so far. The lessons include lots of repetition, as well as a progression of added techniques as they go along. I especially like that each step exactly matches what's on my screen and I can re-check what I'm doing with Scott's detailed photos. "A lesson a day" was do-able and very enjoyable.
I realize that each lesson is a "recipe" for that photo, but as I apply what I have learned to my own shots, I find I have many of the same problems and I can actually remember where I saw a solution in one of his lessons. I might not understand all the techno-reasons, but at least I have a place to start while I build up my knowledge.
I'd highly recommend this book for someone who has played with Photoshop a
little and wants guidelines for using it practically and systematically.
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Summary: This is one fine book.
Comment: Scott Kelby has done it again with another fine book on Photoshop. This book cuts through the #%&* and gets right to the heart of using Photoshop CS3 & Camera Raw (or Lightroom) for photography without all that other stuff that Photoshop has. Very concise instructions and downloadable images that go along with the book. Very easy to follow the point over and over and over and over but that is a good thing. I highly recommend this book to any photographer that wants "just the facts please".
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