Fooling around with Photoshop to create interesting composite artwork is all well and good. But if you rely on Photoshop to meet tough production challenges in a fast-paced professional environment, fooling around won't cut it! You need results, and you need them now: This book delivers! In this copiously illustrated volume, best-selling authors David Blatner and Bruce Fraser offer scads of hands-on production techniques as well as clear explanations of the concepts that drive them, so that you can get the best results possible on your own Photoshop CS2 projects. You'll learn about managing color, getting great scans, correcting tones and colors, and more. You also find complete coverage of all of Photoshop CS2's newest features: integration with Adobe Bridge; Vanishing Point; super-tight integration with the rest of Adobe's Creative Suite 2; and more. Throughout, the emphasis is on efficiency: the time-saving tips and professional shortcuts that will allow you to work faster, smarter, and more creatively with Photoshop CS2.

About The Author
David Blatner is an internationally known expert on Photoshop and QuarkXPress and is the author of numerous other books, including Real World QuarkXPress and Real World Adobe InDesign. David lectures on desktop publishing and multimedia at conferences and workshops around the world. Co-author, Bruce Fraser, is an internationally known authority on digital imaging and color reproduction. In addition to speaking and consulting on these topics, he is the author of Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop; the co-author of Real World Color Management, the definitive guide to color management systems; and a contributing editor for Macworld magazine and creativepro.com.

Customer Reviews & Comments
I've read over 30 Photoshop books over the last 15-years (including two previous editions of this book). Nothing compares with "Real World Photoshop." It is truly authoritative, clear and practical. Of all those 30 books if I had to just pick one, it would be this - truly the gold standard. If you are going to use Photoshop as a professional or a serious amateur, you owe it to yourself to read this book very carefully. Twice. The book is lengthy (984 pages) but for such a rich program that much space is required. Scattered throughout the book are hundreds of "Tips" in bold letters. If you just did a speed-reading of these I bet your Photoshop skills would double. Rare for such a technical book is the clarity of the writing - it's actually a pleasure to read. They express complex ideas clearly without resorting to obscure language. In general, the illustrations are excellent and large enough to clearly demonstrate what they are supposed to. What would make it better? I wish the discussion on Merge to HDR (High Dynamic Range) were more comprehensive and less dismissive. Likewise, the cursory mention of LAB color space as for "geeks only" seems short sighted in light of the revelations in Dan Margulis's new "LAB Color" book. In a book this long you expect a few mistakes, such as the statement that "The Tint control lets you fine-tune the color balance along the axis that's perpendicular to the one controlled by the Temperature slider...". However in this case, they are not perpendicular, because there are three-color axes, not two. But these flaws are the rare exceptions. A quick search here on Amazon.com for books on Photoshop turned up 1,497 titles. Unless you are an absolute beginner, you can skip 1,496 of those books. Just buy this one and you will have all you need. Henry F. Domke. (...) Comments (2) | Permalink | (Report this)