Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Voices)

This book is different than any other "how-to" book I have ever seen. You download lesson pictures off Scott's website and you do what he does with each picture. It is like you are sitting in the same room. You follow his plain English directions-with pictures--and you do the exact things he is doing in the book and you end up with amazing pictures...I never knew learning Photoshop could be easy!!!

Good product. I recommend everybody who uses Photoshop. Many possibilities
what i do not know beforehand. It takes time to learn this book.

This is the 4th book of Scott Kelby that I've purchased. I find his books informative, written well without being so over the top technically and always interjected with his quirky sense of humor. I think you need to have basic knowledge of Photoshop CS3 because I find myself referring back to his CS3 book if I get stuck on a step in the lesson. His methods can save a less than impressive photo.

I found the 7 Point System to be a great way of cutting throught the confusion of Photoshop and getting down to the basics of improving the photograph. I am relatively new to Photoshop and all the other books I've read on this topic lost me after the first few chapters. This book allows you to dive right into it by offering 7 common functions that seem provide the most significant improvment to a photograph. I find myself going back to previous sections in the book to improve upon what I have already learned. A great book that I would recommend to any newbie to photoshop.

I've been using this book for a while and have improved my photo editing skills. Kelby offers some useful recipes for fixing or enhancing photos and he offers methods for adjusting both RAW and jpeg images. After learning the basics of Photoshop it's always helpful to have a manual that will take you through an entire process, so a workflow not just a trick can be learned. Scott Kelby's clear and conversational style works well here as does the the wealth of intermediate step photos.

Many of the end product photos look a bit too obviously Photoshopped. I suppose that's useful as a teaching method, overemphasizing the end result to illustrate how much an average image can be enhanced. I wouldn't want to display them with my name on them, but did learn a lot working through the examples. After understanding the workflow it's pretty easy to tone down the edits to achieve subtler results.

As with more targeted and specialized Photoshop-for-photo-editing books this assumes that the reader has a reasonable familiarity with Photoshop. There is no general introduction to the program. That's fine buy me as it keeps the weight and presumably cost down, and I consider it a useful addition to my library.