Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC

An excellently produced book written in a logical ordered sequence which provides intelligent guidance through a very complex program. The book compares information from previous versions of Photoshop, thoroughly covers CS3, and forwards into the newer extended version. It includes a very instructive movie video (it is nice to be instructed with a clear English speaking voice) and also a picture gallery. I do not intend trying any other book on the subject as I do not believe one exists.

I bought this book for Beginning Photoshop class and I read one chapter. I think this will be an excellent book for anyone to follow preferably in a class situation. With this book and instruction and practice we can all become excellent beginning Photoshop users working with the current version CS3

I wont lie to you, i havent givin this book much of a try however i can say you do have to read pretty hard just to get to the point of what is trying to be taught or shown. I bought this book at the same time which i bought "The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers" and i can truthfully say in comparison its a bit cheesey at times yet has been extremly helpfull in my learning process. At this point id advise purchasing Scott Kellbies book over this for newbys to the digital/Photoshop world as its been quite helpfull.

If Evening's book is at all useful, it is as a badly indexed encyclopedia of PhotoShop. I've been working with the program for most of a decade, and with image process since the early 1990s. Even so, I found Evening's explanations hard to follow and his suggestions poorly motivated. My suggestion is to find another book unless all you need is a reference work to answer very specific questions (but not many of those). I'm surprised that in the marketplace Evening hasn't been renamed Sunset.

To put it quite simply: if you work in digital photography, and it isn't in this book, then you probably won't be needing to know it.

To say the author is thorough is an understatement. Never have I seen Photoshop dissected with more anal-retentive detail. Not only will you be handed working examples for just about everything you could think of doing to an image (even if the image was scanned 10+ years ago), but you'll also be given the author's opinions on everything related to Photoshop, including how to calculate the image resolution needed for print based on the halftone quality used, how to calibrate color on your monitor, what's right and wrong about the latest version of Photoshop, and even how to arrange your desk and room lighting for best working practice!

The only drawback to such dense material is that it isn't easy to just sit down and read. While he has tried his best with wonderful colour-coded organization and visual examples galore, it's not the easiest read. Give yourself a few months to work through his exercises while sitting at a PC, and your knowledge of Photoshop will grow quickly.