Book Review: Adobe Photoshop CS6 For Photographers by Martin Evening

Adobe Photoshop CS6 for Photographers is Martin Evening's seminal work on Photoshop. This is a book on Photoshop by a professional working photographer and written for professional photographers, although its goal is to serve as a guide book for any photographer using Adobe Photoshop CS6. Evening is photographer who has been working with Photoshop for years as both an alpha and beta tester and to this end, the author has focused on the essential information that you need to know about Photoshop if you work in photography.

Adobe Photoshop CS6 For Photographers is really a reference book for both advanced amateur and professional photographers. It is a listing of every conceivable technique that a photographer may need to implement in the pursuit of creating digital photographic images using Adobe Photoshop. It contains 13 chapters and 768 pages. A couple of things to note, the first that the DVD that came with the prior editions of this book has been replaced with content that is available online. Second, also online is an additional 200 pages of content in the form of a PDF as well as other additional learning materials.

Chapters 1-2 are more of an introduction to the changes and new features that come with Adobe Photoshop CS6 as well as a guide to the physical layout of Photoshop interface. Here you will learn about how to navigate around Photoshop and Adobe Bridge You will also see how to configure Photoshop to optimize your computer system as well as what sorts of accessories are needed to help you in your work.

Chapter 3, "Camera Raw Image Processing," has really grown and taken on a life of its own. Because you can process your JPEG and Tiff as well as your RAW images and do so much more, a significantly larger chapter is devoted to the subject. Chapter 4, "Sharpening and Noise Reduction," examines pre-sharpening your photos in Photoshop. This topic was all but untouched in previous versions, but now with the changes in Camera Raw, it is become much more important.

Chapter 5, "Image Editing Essentials," now gets into specifics about editing a photograph outside of Camera Raw. There are some techniques that overlap, but this also works with images that have never been near to Camera Raw. Here you will learn about the fundamentals of image editing. Chapter 6, "Black and White," shows you how to create black and white images from original color images. It also goes into cross process looks as well as infrared effects, and other darkroom related techniques.

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