By Deke McClelland
First Edition
June 2007
Pages: 544
ISBN 10: 0-596-52975-9 |
ISBN 13: 9780596529758
(Average of 3 Customer Reviews)
Pioneering computer graphics author Deke McClelland updates his bestselling hands-on tutorial for Adobe Photoshop CS3, the latest version of this industry-standard image editing and production program. You'll be guided step by step through the program's features and functionality. Once you read about a particular technique, you can see how it's done first hand in the video. The combination is uniquely effective. And hugely popular.
Full Description
Pioneering computer graphics author Deke McClelland updates his bestselling hands-on tutorial for Adobe Photoshop CS3, the latest version of this industry-standard image editing and production program. As with previous editions, Photoshop CS3 One-on-One guides readers step by step through the program's features and functionality. A key appeal of the One-on-One series is the two hours of DVD-video material included. Once you read about a particular technique, you can see how it's done first hand in the video. The combination is uniquely effective. And hugely popular.
Whether you're a first-timer looking to learn Photoshop, or a seasoned user interested in the groundbreaking features of CS3, Deke's conversational style and carefully structured lessons guide you through everything you need to know to get up and running, and then takes you well into mastery. You'll learn to:
- Grasp fundamental and advanced concepts and theory
- Use best practices, and techniques for making the most of Photoshop CS3
- Build relevant, real-world projects
- Use Photoshop's workflow and file handling features
- Use the combined power of Bridge + Camera Raw to process your digital photos
- Choose the right technique for converting your images to black & white
- Create beautiful multilayered documents including posters and flyers
- And much more
A Photoshop expert, sought-after computer graphics and design lecturer and author of over 70 books, Deke creates a classroom environment in Photoshop CS3 One-on-One with written instruction and video training -- except that you get one-on-one attention as you proceed from lesson to lesson at your own pace. It's like having private lessons with the author.
Whether you're an enthusiast, prosumer, creative pro, technical pro, or newcomer, Deke's book will have you speaking fluent Photoshop CS3 in no time.
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Featured customer reviews
Photoshop CS3 One on One, February 16 2008
Adobe Photoshop CS3 One on One
By Deke McClelland
Published by Deke Press/Oreilly
Reviewed by Larry Green member of The PhotoKenosha Group
This book was developed in a great and easy to follow way. Just like being in the classroom and having the teacher right there in front of you, guiding you through each of the 12 lessons. Every lesson is setup in the same format. First read the first part of the lesson to get an understanding on what you will be doing. Then listen and watch the CD movie which is about 15 minutes, and then go and follow along step by step as he guides you through lesson with some hands on learning. I think the best part of this book is if you don’t understand, or can’t follow just stop and go back and try again. I have other books in my library on the same subject, and I must say this book is by far the best, and a must have for anyone using CS3.
Larry Green
PhotoKenosha Group
Great Resource Book!, November 27 2007
Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-On-One
by Deke McClelland
Published by O'Reilly
ISBN-13: 978-0596529758
Reviewed by Donna Sellers, member of the Eureka Photoshop Users Group, Nov 17, 2007
Topics covered:
Open and Organize
Highlights, Midtones, and Shadows
Correcting Color Balance
Making Selections
Crop, Straighten, and Size
Paint, Edit and Heal
Creating and Applying Masks
Focus and Filters
Building Layered compositions
Text and Shapes
Styles and Specialty Layers
Printing and Output
I can fully appreciate why this author was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Not only does he know his material backwards and forwards but he has the gift of writing in a way that is easy to understand. He includes many colored images that demonstrate what he is teaching. His book is appropriate for both the beginner and the more advanced user of Photoshop.
I loved how he organized the book, chapters and topics and made it so user friendly. Each chapter number and name is located on the bottom left side of each page and the specific topic is named on the bottom of the right-hand page. At the end of each section he has a review page of what the reader learned in that chapter and a way to test what concepts have been understood.
While I have been using Photoshop for a number of years, I found his review of Photoshop and all the additional improvements added with the latest CS3 version to be exciting and immediately applicable to increasing my work flow.
I found the examples the author provides on the CD, and the way he walks you through each exercise, easy to follow and helpful in translating what he is teaching to the practical level. His Chapter on Correcting Color Balance was my favorite and worth the price of the book. Within this section he gives the reader a great tutorial on using camera raw images, the most effective ways to colorize images, and explores the advantages of High Bit Depths (24 bits). He reviews how powerful and fast the Variations command (under adjustments) can be to correct color casts and shift saturation levels.
I find in my use of Photoshop that I have often used the same approaches over and over again and haven’t always taken the time to discover newer, faster and more effective ways at getting to the results I am seeking. I fully appreciate having a great resource book available to quickly remind me of more effective and/or efficient ways of getting the results I want.
Highly Detailed, Quality Training, August 20 2007
Deke McClelland accomplishes the very difficult task of teaching the core functionality and features of Photoshop. With every new version, Photoshop brings new abilities to the digital graphics and photo professional; and with those abilities come added complexity. For someone getting started today, the idea of learning this unparalleled program is daunting.
PS CS3 One-On-One itself is someone daunting if you simply pick up the book and flip the pages. The book is long at just over 500 pages, primarily because each task taught is presented in painstaking detail, step-by-step. With plenty of visuals, the book does an outstanding job of walking through advanced techniques with enough detail and description so as to not lose the reader.
There is absolutely no way a Photoshop user can learn a feature or technique simply by digesting a few pages of a book and calling it good. With that in mind, PS CS3 One-On-One is presented in a quality lesson format with all the necessary elements for students to succeed. Visual learners will be jazzed to view the well designed pages with plenty of screen shots and cropped examples. Visual and auditory types both will find the included DVD of complimentary training videos from the famed Lynda.com site invaluable.
At times the detail included with each lesson does drag on a bit, but in reality that is representative of what it takes to accomplish desired effects in Photoshop; not everything is a quick filter and done. In fact, most quality effects Deke teaches require multiple steps and a combination of tools to create an impressive final output.
PS CS3 One-On-One is an interesting combination of a medium to advanced users manual for Photoshop melded in with some great recipe-esque how to like guides for effects. Typically these two approaches are seen disparately in various books.
As you utilize this guide in your learn of Photoshop, you will feel like you have a personal tutorial and reference guide wrapped into one. Whether you are learning to improve images or create from scratch, you have it covered. If you are looking to master the essence of Photoshop as working professional, make this book part of your required reading.
Media reviews
"If there's a better way to learn the power of Photoshop CS3 I surely don't know what it is. Short of the Vulcan Mind Meld this has to be one of the easiest and quickest ways to learn what at first seems to be an intimidating subject. The way this author breaks the steps down and then leads us into the future is brilliant. Go ahead. Check out the myriad of Photoshop books out there. I know that when you compare this set with any of the others, and there are some good ones to be sure, you will put this one at the top of your list. And rightfully so."
-- Artie Alinikoff, myMac.com
"Deke will entertain you as much as teach you. If you are looking to learn Photoshop CS3 from the master, get this book!"
-- Tim Grey, Photoshop CS2 Workflow
"As a Photoshop author, I hate picking up a book and learning things I didn’t already know. But Deke’s done it to me again! If you want to learn Photoshop CS3 from the ground up, look no further."
-- Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals
