12/21/2023 0 Comments Photoshop 101 with ben willmoreI really enjoyed the book and once I got started I couldn't put it down. It ends up with using the type tools and many other effects. It then gets fun with creative exporations.Covering such things as shadows, blending images,and more filters. The book travels along and takes you through color correction and channels. For me just learning more about these tools was worth the price of the book. These are the meat of Photoshop and once you've read about these you'll have a great understanding of these tools. The book then digs into some of the best yet hard to master filters, levels and curves. The first part of the book deals with all the Photoshop tools, the book really details the tools and gives the reader a good overview of the tools along with some great tips. This is the first Photoshop book that instead of just giving you examples of features actually tells why and how the most important features work. Professional users will find this book as an essential building block and reference for their Photoshop knowledge. It covers image blending, retouching, using type and other filter effects.Occassional Photoshop users will find everything they need in this book. The third section, 'Creative Explorations' goes into different techniques for enhancing your image. Willmore covers the principles behind color correction, sharpening, curves, working with grayscale, and other techniques neccessary for producing professional output. This is the topic that often gets skipped in other Photoshop books. I found lots of great tips to speed up my work! The second section, 'Production Essentials' covers the most important stuff for a working studio or graphic business. It gives you the basics of Photoshop (and in a very fun and easy way, too!). The first section 'Working Foundations' is like a Photoshop 101 class. It's a medium sized book, but packed with all the information you'd find in all of those 3 inch thick books put together.If I only bought one Photoshop book, this would be the one. His work is concise, quick to the point, very informative and fun to read. It is too bad they cannot do this for Illustrator and GoLive by Adobe.īen Willmore explains the principles and theory of why Photoshop works. Do not buy books on photoshop, just buy this one and you will become a master in short of amount of time. Adobe has done an excellent job in finding someone that can write a book about photoshop 5.0 and relate it to the general public. He provides an excellenct theory behind the things he is going to explain. I now understand layers, shadows, drop shadows, color correction, RGB, CMYK, GRC, Levels, Curves, Channels, getting rid of color casts, and understanding what the differences between "ppi" and "dpi" are. He relates the unusual and hard stuff about photoshop in lamen terms that anybody can understand. Ben Willmore puts you at ease and provides humor throughout the book. Out of all these books, the photoshop studio techniques is above all the best. The adobe user guide, adobe classroom in a book, and adobe photoshop studio techniques. I have went through three photoshop 5.0 books.
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