Photoshop CS Artistry

As a total beginner, I learned Photoshop using the 5.5 version of this book and have bought the corresponding version each time I have upgraded. This book is great for not only intermediate and advanced users but also for beginners who want to understand why and how the program works in depth from the start and don't mind investing the effort to do so. If you are looking for a quick reference or "Photoshop basics in 3 hours" DON'T buy this book! You will be better served by something else; BUT, if you are looking to really learn the program and willing to invest the time, your efforts will be richly rewarded using this book. I can't say enough for it. If you look through reviews, you will see either love it or hate it. The ones that love it are looking to learn/understand the program. The ones that hate it are most likely looking for a quick reference book or to learn the bare basics quickly which is totally fine as everyone has different needs but this book simply is not designed for that. I will say that the screen captures are not as good as previous versions but still acceptable. Hopefully future versions will go back to the previous quality. Thanks to Haynes and Crumpler for their great work!

I really enjoyed this book. It taught me more about why behind exposure, color spaces, and image sourcing than any other book I have read. It provides a process for handling photos from the source to output in a variety of different media. The color spaces coverage is excellent. This is the book for those who want to understand the science and the concepts and then learn about the application having built a solid basis of technical understanding.

I am a Chinese student, I extremely want to study adobe photoshop, therefore I continuously am seeking good teaching material. But, I am all unsatisfied, until saw this book preceding edition Adobe Photoshop 7 Artistry. That is a excited night, also remembered I at that time that kind of happy feeling I to the present.I extremely thank this series author: Barry Haynes and Wendy Crumpler. May say like this ,they lead me to enter the Adobe Photoshop artistic palace. These cause me without hesitation to prepare to purchase this series the newest edition: Adobe Photoshop CS Artistry. But very is a pity, in my country, the newest this series is the Adobe Photoshop 7 Artistry translation edition, all does not have including the Adobe Photoshop CS Artistry English edition. Also has some other reasons to cause me to be unable to purchase, said to me very regrettably. But I or must produce the five-star appraisal in here, this is not excessive. This is may be called the classics the teaching material, I hoped will be able soon to see it on the bookshelf!

I have been using the "Artistry "series of books since PS 5.5 and they are without question the best books available for photographers to use to grasp some of the more intricate approaches to controlling your images. And Photoshop CS is even better than the previous versions. Not only does it review in depth the new and important features that come with CS but there are also new hands on exercises to help your understand them.This is a very rigorous book and doing the hands on examples might wear your out a bit but you will know an enormous amount when your are finished. The book could be used by an adventurous beginner but it is ideal for intermediate and advanced users. I teach digital imaging as well as conventional photography at an art school and this is the book that I recommend to my students. The might be other books out there that claim to be directed toward the photographer but none has the high quality information contained in CS Artistry. If you learn everything in this book you will know a lot more than most people about how to effectively and efficiently use Photoshop to edit and print your photographic images.

After extensive review of most every Photoshop book available over the past several years to include purchase of several, this is without a doubt the best by far. It is written with the ability for a Photoshop beginner to use yet has all of the complex detail needed for mastering this amazing program. The focus is clear, extremely well organized, and the tutorials provide hands on experience for all practical needs. The enclosed CD has invaluable Photoshop plug in material to make use of the program more efficient and user friendly.I have owned and used Barry Hayne's "Adobe Photoshop Artistry" book for versions 5 and 6, so this is my third edition. I think that this book is as close to both a Photoshop beginners and master class as you can get!