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Black and White in Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Lightroom: Create stunning monochromatic images in Photoshop CS3, Photoshop Lightroom and Beyond
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Black and White in Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Lightroom: Create stunning monochromatic images in Photoshop CS3, Photoshop Lightroom and Beyond |
Author: Leslie Alsheimer
Published: 2007-08-13 |
List price: $34.95
Our price: $23.07
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As of: October 12th, 2008 03:53:57 AM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Extremely Technical
I'm sure this book is actually really really good, however for me it was way too complicated and uninspiring. I was after some simple tips but this book is full on, with algorythms etc... so it's good for pros and experts and technical people but not if you're an enthusiastic amateur who is looking for artistic insights.
 Identity Crisis
This book is OK but not great as it seems to suffer from an identity crisis with regard to its intended audience. It includes a lot of intro material that isn't in-depth enough to really help a total beginner (nothing more than a survey really) but only serves to annoy intermediate and advanced users of Photoshop and Lightroom looking for a more solid B&W technique book. If you are looking for a how-to book on all things related to digital B&W, this isn't it. Those looking for workflow ideas might get something out of the book. Apart from these issues, the book seems to have been rushed to print because it is littered with typos and other mistakes. Most would be better served surfing some tutorial sites and watching free podcasts rather than spending money on this book.
 Very useful, capable and comprehensive
Congratulations to Alsheimer to this Job. There is a pratical, easy going language to vast public even to basic amateurs. Undestand B&W is quite important to everyone who is trying to be a better photographer and this book is very capable with very good examples, tips and refined theory. For next ediditon I would recomend this author to be more torelant when aplying tips over photoshop world and describing more steps.
 Black & White in Photoshop & Photoshop Lightroom
The book is exceptional in its clarity of concepts. I have read many other color management books or sections in photoshop books, and this is so cogent. It totally clicks.
I love the examples and the clarity of the explanations.
Good book back lacking in key areas
I'm keen to further explore B&W in the digital world and thought this looked the ideal book (even though I use Photoshop Elements 6 instead of Photoshop CS3). Much of the material is thorough and well written, but some key areas I found to be lacking.
While many books cover workflow, colour management etc, this book repeats these topics and covers them well. Unfortunately the B&W component is a lacking, especially in Lightroom. A substantial part of the first 80 pages is devoted to Lightroom, yet the B&W conversion process is descibed in only one page. I was hoping to get more out of this conversion process and tips of a more artistic nature to ensure the best possible image is carried across to Photoshop. Instead it basically suggests "click greyscale conversion" and open Photoshop. The art of the B&W conversion is what makes/breaks an image and I would have thought that Lightroom would be more appropiate than the channel mixer in Photoshop. With "channels" for each colour I would have liked to seen examples and how these were achieved in Lightroom
Although I have not yet fully covered the photoshop part of the book, what I have read is thorough and well written.
I found it difficult to rate this book - it is very good in many ways, but unfortunately did not fill the gap in which I was looking for.
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