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This is a good book for those who have got a good handle on Photoshop and are looking to take their skills to the next level. Value: Good (because you should be able to get it for much less than the $40 cover price) The rest of the book after that is just advertising and a short Q&A. This is good stuff, so don't stop reading until you've finished this chapter.

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The last section shows how to do a transparent shadows trick with channels that truly rocks. It was pretty easy to do, but the results make it look more tricky than it really is. This is a very cool technique that has more practical applications like adding tattoos or things like logos to objects. I decided to use an image of myself to demonstrate this point where I kinda make myself look like Nightcrawler from X-Men 2 using a blueprint image from the book: I enjoyed some of the tricks discussed in this chapter, but perhaps the one that was the most fun was the texture map example. Chapter 8 - Special Effects Using Channels

It also includes a short section on color table optimizations which I think are less useful and practical these days. I found this to be very useful and very cool. This is a cool chapter that shows you how to optimize an image so that the alpha channel preserves the detail where you need it and the heavy compression occurs on the non-important potions of the image. I'm not sure if Scott will still offer these suggestions as I didn't notice them in some of his more recent books, but still there's some good stuff to know here that might help you out for specific real-world scenarios. The sharpening stuff is good, but is easy to go overboard using the techniques described. This section offers a few channel based selection mechanisms for doing sharpening on selective portions of the image and later this chapter even goes into noise reduction (which I didn't find to be especially useful). The last section about Red Eye Repair is also a new twist on this common problem and offers a neat channels based solution I've never seen before. The Blending Channels and Toning Down Highlights sections at the end offer lots of value for real world applications, so they help make this chapter a must read.

Scott finally gets to those better ways in the Creating Vibrant Color section where he starts to discuss LAB color, but like many of the images in this chapter he goes overboard creating some oversaturated looking images. This chapter starts off with some channel based color enhancements which I didn't find to be of much value as there are better ways to get much better results. My suggestion is to skip it if you own CS3 or greater as its Black & White converter dialog (described very well in Chapter 7 of The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers) is a much easier way to accomplish what Scott is trying to demonstrate. This is a really outdated chapter that explains how to use channels to create black & white photos. If you are new to layer masks then this chapter might be helpful - somewhat, but there are better resources on this subject. Layer masks are important, but I must say this is probably the weakest chapter in the book.

This chapter seemed a bit out of place in this book because it starts by double exposing an image using layer masks, then it goes on to compositing and finally it demonstrates some complex printing press technique. When I finished I was wondering where this book had been all my life and why I hadn't found it sooner! Chapter 3 - Layer Masks & Adjustment Layers For example, before reading this book I could have never made such a complex selection to create the photo you see here (hover over to see what the original looked like):Ĭan you believe it only took me less than a minute to do 90% of the selection, and just another 5 more to do the rest? No, I'm no selection God - in fact, I'm far from it - instead, I just learned how to do Channel based selection as described in this book and used CS3's quick selection tool to do the rest. This is where the fun begins because you learn how to make what seem like impossible selections in a way that is so simple you'll just shake your head and smile. This chapter teaches you the basics of channels, explains what an Alpha channel is and how they relate to the Save/Load selection feature. Here are my thoughts about each chapter of this book. It was written for CS2, but all of the concepts still apply for both CS3 and CS4, so I figured it was worth a look. Those of you who have followed my blog know that I am frequently recommending Scott Kelby books, so when I recently went to a NAPP sponsored seminar, I decided to take advantage of a sale they had going on and I picked up this somewhat old book by Scott Kelby.

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