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Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A professional image editor’s guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC
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Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A professional image editor’s guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC

by Martin Evening
November 2008
Beginner to intermediate
704 pages
21h 22m
English
Focal Press
Content preview from Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A professional image editor’s guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC

Foreword

by John Nack

Is Photoshop for photographers? And do photographers really need Photoshop? A couple of years ago, these questions might have seemed a little silly. No professional photographer would seriously consider foregoing Photoshop’s image-manipulation power, whether to apply subtle color corrections or to make radical image alterations. Now, however, new workflow-centric applications like Adobe Lightroom have come into the market. With these tools focusing purely on photographers’ needs, how relevant does Photoshop remain?

To me the situation is a bit like what I’ve found with photography: yes, you can start out and sometimes get by with a limited set of equipment but, the more you know, the more you value specialized tools that can ...

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