Photoshop Books & Articles
Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos:
100 Essential Techniques for Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3 and ACR 6 was designed and written from the ground up for digital photographers who want to strengthen their digital editing skills and improve photographic workflows. From raw image processing, to precise corrections in Photoshop, to output, this book covers many of the most important topics you need to know. Here are a few examples:
Lightroom 3 / ACR 6: Streamlined Lightroom Import; Getting Organized with Metadata, Keywords and the Library Filter; Perfecting Raw Exposures; Improved Noise Reduction and Sharpening; Color Styling with HSL corrections; Lens Corrections; The Adjustment Brush; Publish to Flikr.
Photoshop CS5 : Merge to HDR Pro; Content Aware Fill, Heal, and Scale; Adjustment Layers and Layer Masks; Refine Edge; Color Range Selections; Puppet Warp; The Mixer Brush; and over three dozen more useful tips!
Review Excerpts from Amazon.com:
This how-to book for optimizing CS5 and LR3 is the right mix of written and visual instruction. Handy tips in the margins also provide a quick reference to best-practices for leveraging the power of these tools.
If you are new to LR this book will get you started! PhotoShop newbies get a run down on essentials like: preferences, Bridge (and mini Bridge), navigating inside PS, brushes, layers, and retouching techniques. They’ll also be able to jump right into the nuts and bolts of masking, selecting, HDR… .
The tips themselves are revealed in an easy-to-follow format that says enough to get a point across without being overly complicated, [and] There are sidebars that … helps to give a more layered and comprehensive feel to what’s being offered.
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Review by Rob Sylvan (Lighroomers Blog)
Review by Adventure Photographer Dan Bailey
Review by Photographer Jay Watson
Select Peachpit.com Articles:
Fast, Accurate Portrait Retouching with Perfect Retouch
Creating Lens Blur Effects with Focal Point 2
Precise Background Swaps with Photoshop and Perfect Mask
Color Efex Pro 4: Professional Styling for Color Photos
Quick HDR Edits with HDR Efex Pro
32-bit Imaging & HDR Toning in Photoshop
Fine-Tuned Black & White Photos with Silver Efex Pro 2
Adding Soft Background Focus with Bokeh 2
Fun with Puppet Warp in Photoshop CS5
Magazine Articles:
Photoshop User (March 2011): Cover Story: Last Days of Winter
Photoshop User (September 2010): 100 Hot Tips Issue, Tips 81-90.
Photo Technique (Nov/December 2010): Photoshop CS5 – Merge to HDR Pro
Photo Technique (Sept/October 2010): Photoshop CS5 – Mixer Brush Workflow
Photo Technique (July/August 2010): Photoshop CS5 – Content-Aware Workflow
