I have two of Fraser's books. The only things wrong with them are the titles. They both refer specifically to Photoshop CS/CS2, giving the impreession that they aren't much use for Elements or earlier versions of Photoshop.
I'm still using Photoshop 6 and Elements 1 and both books have changed the way I use those programs. There are parts of the books that are CS/CS2 specific but there's so much more in them of more general application. I highly recommend them (Real World Image Sharpening and Real World Camera Raw) - especially the one on sharpening. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia Quoting Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Unitentionally I was refering to a private joke by telling you > about my ONE > BOOK. Rather stupid by me refering to something you couldnt posibly > > understand. > I might as well let you in on the joke. It refered a little story > about a > couple of brothers who inhereted a fine book collection. They > turned it > down, because they had a book. > > Thank you Godfrey, for not giving up on me on this topic ;-) > I'm selling a lens now, a dustcollector. I'm talking about 400USD, > so I > might turn the cash into some of the recomended reading. > > Tim Typo > Mostly Harmless > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 10:25 PM > Subject: Re: PESO - Heavy Weather 2 > > > > On May 8, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Tim Øsleby wrote: > > > Yeah. I've heared about books ;-) > > > > I have one about Elements, Elements in a snap. Total crap, > written > > by a > > computer geek. A lot details, but nothing giving me a general > > understanding. > > A lot of how's, but no why's. > > It's unfair to consider one book that didn't help you as being > indicative of all authors' work. > > Bruce Fraser/David Blattner, Scott Kelby and Martin Evening have > all > published well-written books on using Photoshop CS2 from a > photographer's perspective (several at least for Scott Kelby). > Some > parts are technique oriented ("do this to get that result"), some > parts have a more 'reference'/theory perspective. Which would be > best > for your particular learning is hard to say. > > I have a couple of Scott's books, one by Martin on Lightroom, and > all > of Bruce Fraser's books. In particular, I find Bruce Fraser very > illuminating and interesting. I don't read any of them > exhaustively > in a sitting, I tend to skim and look up specific things that I > want > more clarity on. I often look up how to do something, read a bit > to > get some context, and then experiment with the ideas having the > book > open on my desk. > > Godfrey > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Find out how you can get spam free email. http://www.bluebottle.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
