By Jennifer Smith, Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI)
First Edition
July 2007
Pages: 360
ISBN 10: 0-596-51061-6 |
ISBN 13: 9780596510619
(Average of 2 Customer Reviews)
Dynamic Learning: Photoshop CS3 is like having access to a top-notch team of your very own instructors. Written by product experts and trainers who have produced many of Adobe's training titles, the book is organized into lessons, with easy-to-follow instructions, tips, and review questions. Includes video tutorials on DVD.
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This full-color book is organized into lessons, with easy-to-follow instructions, tips, examples, self-study exercises, and review questions at the end of every lesson. Each lesson is self-contained, so you can go through the entire book sequentially or just focus on individual lessons.
Topics covered include:
- What's new in Photoshop CS3
- Bridge
- Camera Raw
- Making Selections
- Painting and Retouching
- Layers, Smart Objects, and Smart Filters
- Creating graphics for video and the Web
The companion DVD included with the book includes video tutorials and all of the lesson files, with starting images, additional elements, and the final, completed image files. A free Instructor's Guide is available online in PDF format.
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First Edition: July 2007
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ISBN: 0-596-51061-6
Pages: 360
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 2 Reviews)
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Dynamic Learning : Photoshop CS3, December 04 2007
Dynamic Learning: Photoshop CS3
by Lee Donehower, Board Member
Diablo Valley Mac Users Group
It’s an age-old problem with software textbooks: the authors are so married to their projects that they simply can’t fathom how different folks could read their written words and come away with an interpretation completely foreign to what the author was trying to communicate.
Kudos to Jennifer Smith and the AGI Creative Team for restoring my faith in the textbook-creation industry! Dynamic Learning Photoshop CS3 is well thought out, presented, and apparently tested prior to publication. And, just in case they missed something, opposite the Contents page, in the book’s printing history, is this statement: “Please report any errors by sending a message to errata@aquent.com.”
Dynamic Learning: Photoshop CS3 is a great tool whether you’re new to Photoshop or, like me, have been using the software since Version 1 was released. Photoshop is one of those software programs that is so robust that I doubt any one person could ever master every nook and cranny of its potential. Jennifer’s treatment of exploring CS3, the workspace, and the basics, though familiar to me, still offered new tricks.
Moving on to the meat and potatoes of Photoshop, Jennifer was able to unravel the mystery of setting white and black points in an image in such a clear manner that I finally feel comfortable using them as my primary retouching tools.
Her chapter on using smart objects in Photoshop also expanded my understanding of nondestructive editing, and I could easily see where this new Photoshop tool would have come in handy for past projects.
I did come across some errors in the book and took advantage of the errata email address to report them. Voilá! Jennifer herself wrote back and promised to make the necessary changes in the next printing of the book.
Dynamic Learning: Photoshop CS3 is easy to read, easy to follow, and despite its penchant for clarity, does not leave you feeling like the village idiot. Only its last chapter, Creating Images for Web and Video, left me disappointed. Admittedly, this is a very complex topic, but after completing the tutorials I was left wondering where and how to transpose my newfound knowledge into my own projects.
The book comes with a DVD containing flash videos of each chapter as well as lesson files for working the tutorials. Overall, the book is excellent, and I look forward to reading others in the Dynamic Learning series. A tad expensive, but in this case you DO get what you pay for!
Dynamic Learning Photoshop CS3, August 13 2007
Dynamic Learning-Photoshop CS3
This new book teaches the workings of the new Photoshop CS3, released on 16 April 2007. The book consists of 13 Lessons (chapters) and an index, in 349 pages. The first lesson describes the new features of Photoshop CS3, of which there are quite a few. Further lessons teach the use of Selections, Layers, Painting and Retouching, Filters, Smart Objects, and creating images for the Web, video, and print. The book is printed on glossy paper with illustrations and screen captures in color throughout. There are useful tables, such as the one describing all the tools, another on understanding file formats. Lesson 8 has a good Color Primer section which describes the RGB and CMYK color spaces.
The DVD which comes with the book has all the images used the lessons, plus 13 tutorial videos
(about five minutes each) corresponding to each of the lessons in the text. This book provides a well-rounded working knowledge of the Photoshop CS3 program, for the beginner.
Media reviews
"Dynamic Learning: Photoshop CS3 is a very easy to read and understand book and when tied with the videos it becomes a very powerful learning experience. The book is well organized, the lessons include real world examples and the instruction provides a good working base from which one can really learn Photoshop CS3."
-- T. Michael Testi, Blogcritics Magazine
"If you’re going to buy software that costs more than $600, spend a little extra to find out how it works. This full-color book has easy-to-follow instructions, tips and examples making some of the complicated functions seem easy."
-- Gregg Ellman, The Star-Telegram
"I cannot claim to be an excellent beginner.
-- Brett Merkey, Amazon.com
"Dynamic Learning Photoshop CS3 is a very readable book. If the instructions for using Photoshop tools and techniques were any more clear they would have to be transparent...This book would make a fine reference about Photoshop CS3."
-- Northern Vermont Macintosh User Group
"It's like taking a training seminar, only you're the only one there and you can take your lunch break whenever you want...Dynamic Learning: Photoshop CS3 ends up being a great resource for those looking to take advantage of the new features available, with the added bonus of helping users refresh themselves on what Photoshop already could do. Even better, it'll remind users that other—perhaps better—methods are available. It does this with real world lessons, involving images included on the provided CD."
-- Kirk Hiner, AppleLinks
"I found this systematic method really reinforced learning some pretty complex things in Photoshop CS3...This is not a text full of beautiful photos to inspire artistic fervor; rather, it is a carefully crafted, down to earth teaching manual with clear, detailed explanations of a very complex but endearing software program. It will be on my desk as a good reference for future study. I give it 5 Stars."
-- Barbara Hansen, Golden Gate Computer Society
