EXCERPT:
The whole book is focused on a seven-point system of Photoshop techniques that is all you need to make even the worst photographs look good:
- Adobe Camera Raw processing
- Curves
- Shadow/Highlight
- “Painting with Light,” basically introducing a darker or lighter version of the image and then masking parts of it
- Channels adjustments with Lab and Apply Image
- Layer blend modes and layer masks
- Sharpening
The book was the brainchild of Jeff Kelby, Scott’s brother, who saw how many of Scott’s best photos looked poor right out of the camera. The book was to show how crappy photos could be made great in a few simple steps, and as the book developed Scott realized he used a handful of techniques over and over again--which became the seven points above...
I almost never give a perfect ten, but Scott Kelby’s 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 deserves it. There’s so many resources for Photoshop tips, printed or otherwise, but this is a rare instance of an author analyzing his Photoshop work in order to distill it to a system helpful to any Photoshop user. It’s ironic that a handful of basic Photoshop techniques is all you need to make photographs look great, but any advanced user will tell you it’s true. If I had to find fault with this book, I would cite the long title and the fact that it’s hard to pull keyboard shortcuts, menu items and main ideas from the text, but I think this book does so many things so well that those quibbles are very minor indeed.
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