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| Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Voices) | 
 enlarge | Author: Scott Kelby
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
List Price: £29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 2623
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0321501926
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780321501929
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
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 Buy this one! August 3, 2008
If you`re like me, attention span of a newt, then this is the book for you!
I`ve got SO many books over the years about Photoshop and whilst i`ll get to about the 2nd chapter i get fed up and move on. Unless, that is, a book comes along that is superbly written and incredibly easy to follow, packed full of useful REAL LIFE information that you will and can ACTUALLY use....this is that book.
Its just an awesome piece of writing.
Simplicity its its key to success. You just follow the simple instructions, repeat, practice and tadaah!! You`ve got it!
Maybe this has just set a standard that other books should follow.....in my eyes it certainly has!
Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 April 14, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
As a 70 year old,self taught relative new-comer to PC's, the scope and depth of Photoshop has proved to be almost overwhelming - but where do you start to de-mystify the programme's daunting controls and options?
Teach-yourself books generally assume you have at least a good grounding of computer-speak - and I didn't even know what the shift key was, or how to find it!
I had been browsing through Scott Kelby's tuition sites, and although enlightening they seemed to be just one step too far ahead for we old chaps with an attention span/memory grasp - THEN I bought his 7-Point System and a whole new world opened up before me. Undreamed of techniques unfolded that were readily understood, and the hours of pleasure working through the 21 lessons - some of the more basic I can now do with hardly a glance at the pages.
If you are new to PhotoShop , buy this book. I have a grandson who has been grounded in Adobe CS3 and is in his last university year majoring in Film Making, Production & Anomation - he has worked through my book and now buying his own - I guess no fuller praise than this can be offered.
Scott Kelby's approuch to digital imaging is superb, a bright light shining through the dark magic & mystery.
Just three words - BUY THIS BOOK.
Outstanding Book January 22, 2008
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Scott Kelby has put a lot of thought into producing this book and straight away you find that it's easy to understand approach aids learning. Going through the examples methodically makes learning about Photoshop CS3 much easier and by the end of this book you will be processing your own images more confidently. Please note that the examples given in the book ARE available to download (If you look on page xxi the download location is clearly shown). I have recently progressed from CS to CS3 and this book has helped me a great deal.
 just not good enough January 5, 2008
2 out of 35 found this review helpful
Be prepaired to be very disappointed. unfortuneately Scott Kelby seems to be too mean to give you acces to any of the images to practice on. Which means that much of the lessons will leave you out on a limb when trying to follow the so called lessons.
Another american trainer that cann't hack it in the UK market
A simple system for the real world December 5, 2007
30 out of 31 found this review helpful
I like to think I'm of reasonable intelligence, and fairly computer literate, yet whenever I play with pictures in photoshop I have to laboriously follow the intructions from a book every time.
The 7-point system is different. Firstly, you download the same pictures that Scott Kelby has used in the book. You then carry out the same steps in the same order to produce the same results. You do this 21 times in all. By the end of the process, you pretty much get the hang of the main image tweaking procedures that your average digital snapper will need to use.
It doesn't stop there however. On each exercise, Scott also talks you through another technique which can be easily done within Photoshop, so you get exposed to much more of what the programme offers.
In a nutshell then, you are provided with a system to follow which will improve your pictures, you are given a flavour of what else the program can actually do, and you practice, practice, practice these steps.
About half way through, I was already loading up my own pictures and using the same techniqes on them, and getting good results. Yes, you still need an eye for what you are trying to achieve, but then any amateur photographer already has an eye for "that shot" and knows what they want to see.
If you are already an advanced user, this probably isn't the book for you, but if, like me, you are an aspiring amateur, this book will improve your skills and knowledge.
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