Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) 
Customer Ratings: - Excellent. It s amazing how this book is easy to understand and follow. Instruction are step by step and even I, who I am not famous for using the computer too well, was able to produce fantastic effects thanks to this fantastic book. The only down side is that the author could have done with not trying to be funny, his humor is awful!!:)
- If only the author was told he was not funny!. The general content of the book is fine but just too much is the author trying to make you laugh and failing badly. I just could not force myself to read once Scott Kelby started trying to be funny. You may find his approach to your liking but for me it was a big disappointment. Did nobody at the publishers have the courage to tell Mr Kelby he was spoiling his good work with an irratating and maddening approach?
This is a great pity as it spoils a well researched and fact filled book. The illustrations are excellent and flow well with the written dialogue.
I have just purchased a book on Lightroom by Martin Evening, how refreshing to find an author who really gets down to business with his book.
- Yes the humour is bad.... After reading some of the previous reviews, I thought I would buy this book as surely some of the comments about the humour being awful must ve been exaggerated!? Well, sadly not - the humour is truly awful. But don t let this put you off - the book in itself is amazing. I read it cover to cover in one sitting and had to get up to try all the techniques, despite it being way past my bedtime. I find the book easy to follow, the techniques are brilliant and will have anyone making the most of CS3 in no time! Highly recommended. (although I would agree that while the book tells you how, it will not give you understanding of why)
- Good for Photographers. Firstly don t let the humour comments put you off - it not that bad. What the book does for digital photographers is tell you how to post process for great results and how to do some neat effects, what it doesn t do is explain why or what some of the steps are for. If you are creative or want to understand the workings of CS3 then look elsewhere. I got the CS3 Bible as well (which does the opposite - give the how and why but not much about what you can achieve) and between the two I got what I needed.
The book is nicely illustrated and all the steps to get the effects are clear and easy to follow. - Buy it and start USING Photoshop. If you have Photoshop, this book will simply help you understand it and start making it work for you.
Forget all the comments about Scott Kelby s humour, its an easy to read book that explains things well.
I also bought the Dummies book for CS3, it really isn t a patch on this one and just doesn t explain anything clearly.
Buy this book and you will be a Kelby fan for life (even if he is an American!)
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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) (ID: 0321501918)
