I got this b/c I am still pretty new to photoshop and it's a tough program to get a handle on b/c of the terminology. This booked helped me get thru the basics and even had a few advanced tips. It's easy to read and very well written (Kelby is pretty funny!) I would reccomend this to anyone just starting out in photoshop.

This book illustrates everything I wanted to do with photo editing and more. You can start from the beginning or pick a topic to try as in depicting a different back ground.

This was a great book to learn how to enhance photos using Photoshop CS.

This book is essential for those who want to learn and discern the intricacies of photoshop. I recommend it for all users of photoshop. Keep it nearby as you work. You won't regret it.

This is a fantastic book for beginners and intermediate persons to Photoshop. The easy to follow instructions are invaluable as you can read and click along!!! A very good buy.

For years I just took pictures because I loved it. Now I am trying my hand at learning what you can do with those great photos you take. Photoshop is great software if you know how to use it...this book shows you how to use a lot of the tools, and add special effects that you never knew "you" could do. It is the best Photoshop book I have ever found. I also own Photoshop for Dummies and this book is easier to understand and use than the "Dummies" book.

This book is written to address directly the kinds of procedures that photographers want to know about Photoshop. Instead of looking at Photoshop from a programmer's perspective (i.e. here are all of the cool things the crop tool can do) Kelby approaches Photoshop from the other side, in a humorous and simple style that starts with what the PHOTOGRAPHER wants to do and then tells you which tools to use and how. If you are looking for a manual that lets you quickly and simply do what you want, get this. By the way, many of the techniques will work with Photoshop Elements. In other words, for under a hundred bucks you can buy this book and Photoshop Elements and do some fantastic things to your photographs. Great book!

I recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn how to handle common tasks within Photoshop. The book targets the novice user who has not yet mastered Photoshop. Scott Kelby takes a light-hearted approach to many of the common tasks and every step is illustrated with colorful screen shots. The text avoids technical jargon and is written in conversational language. The price is right and it is well worth the purchase. Do not purchase this book if you want to gain a mastery over PS and want to know the intricities of the application.

I have only read 3 chapters and have already learned new tricks. Very good.

I am new to Photoshop but this book was not at all intimidating to me. It marks all of the harder techniques with a "for pros only" logo so you know that they are likely to be more challenging. The book is organized in a very logical order and gives very detailed step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish each task. I am a bit lazy when it comes to editing each of my photos in Photoshop, but I know if I did I would end up with much better end results. If you want the most out of your pictures and don't mind spending the time editing after the shot is taken, I highly recommend reading this book. I mainly use it for a reference right now to fix or enhance individual shots rather than using it all the time, but it never leaves my computer desk.

This is the second book I bought while learning to use my Photoshop CS and it was so much better than the first one I'm kicking myself for not buying it sooner. It explains things in easy terms and really got me excited about what I could do with this program. Plus Scott Kelby is hilarious! He combined humor with expertise to creat the ultimate photoshop book. I HIGHLY recommend!

The best book about photoshop so far. Easy to understand and follow. Learned more in a couple of hours than the last months..

Tor Gunnar

Other reviews aptly describe and applaud this book, as do I. I will mention the Scott Kelby may be a Mac user. PC users will find detailed steps not in accord with the PC interface, but only rarely. I repeat, this is rare, but frustrating at first if you don't recognize it. I wrote SK about this a while ago.

This book is the no-nonsense approach to getting what you want out of your digital photographs with Photoshop CE. Of all image software how-to books I have bought over the years, this book is exactly what I have been looking for and never been able to find. This book was given to me (friend sold his digital camera) as I had quit buying these types of books because I never could find what I was looking for.

Every page has images, including before and after pictures for all of the image techniques. Everything discussed in the book gets right to the point and everything is done step by step. I absolutely love this book. If I forget how to do one of the techniques, it only takes a second to look it up. I love the format. Thanks, Mr. Scott Kelby.

I have the previous version of the same book written for Photoshop 7, this book is the extended version written for Photoshop CS users. I enjoy the advance techniques for the professionals, this book gives some good hints for the problems that artists face every day such as sharpening techniques, digital effects an many other light darkroom tecniques are very easy to follow. I recommend this to every level of Photoshop users, very handy book to have in your library.

Outstanding book, I would refer this book to anyone(Photogrpaher) that is working with digital and photoshop. It's a very easy book to understand and specific in how to use various steps to enhance digital photographs.

I am a digital scrapbook artist - just starting out. This is an AMAZING guide to the world of Photoshop. Very well written - concise, yet easy to follow. I have improved my grasp of Photoshop 100% in a couple of weeks. I am still far from an expert, but I am able to work - create great art and continue to use this book with each project.

It would have saved me hours of frustration and not knowing what to do if I had just bought this book a long time ago. It has really helped me learn PS.

This is one of my favorite Photoshop books. It must be, because I have 2 editions, both dog-eared and with broken bindings. Needless to say, I use this one a lot.

What I like about this book:

1) It's written for us, for photographers. Not graphic designers.

2) Kelby writes in a witty style that makes reading the book fun. It's not a book that you'll read on a rainy night for pleasure, but it's not dry and boring, either.

3) Kelby gives you settings when he tells you how to do something. For example, under the section 'Removing Dark Circles Under Eyes', Kelby says:

"Step One: Open the photo that has the dark circles you want to lessen. Select the Clone Stamp tool in the Toolbox. Then (from the Brush Picker in the Options bar), choose a soft-edged brush that half as wide as the area you want to repair. Step Two: Go up to the Options bar and lower the Opacity of the Clone Stamp tool to 50%. Then, change the Blend Mode to Lighten (so you'll only affect areas that are darker than your sample)."

You get the idea. This is a book that you'll actually USE.

4) Kelby starts the book off telling you how to customize Photoshop. And one of the very best discussions that you'll read on why you don't want to shoot in sRGB mode.

5) There is an entire section on Retouching Portraits, with such chapter headings as 'Pro Wrinkle Removal', 'Glamour Skin Softening', and even 'Transforming a Frown into a Smile'.

Guarantee that no matter what your level of Photoshop skills, you'll learn something from this book that you'll use every day.

There are editions of this book for PS 7, PS CS and PS Elements.

A book about photoshop that gives solutions to people (like me) that all they want is to retouch and improve their digital photos. Simple instructions give enormous results. Also i like the way of the writer, not boring at all. I am very very happy with the book because i can get results from the first minutes of reading:)

Step-by-step instructions are very easy to understand, with great pictures of photoshop tools and images to follow along with.

If you're new to Photoshop and looking for a book to really get you going then I would recommend that this is one of your first purchases. (How to Wow Photoshop for Photographers by Wilmore and Davis is also a great book but I like both). Unlike other Photoshop books which go into great details explaining things before you actually get to to do anything, Kelby puts everything down in simple straight forward steps that are quick and simple to achieve. Remove red-eye, reduce noise, remove colour casts, convert to black and white, diffuse glows, porcelain skin, what values to use for sharpening, it's all here and you can do it in a matter of minutes.

The book begins by getting you set up for optimising Photoshop (workspace, window layouts, colour space, etc) before moving on to basic tool use and then some great effects which you'll use quite frequently. Personally, I find the effects for improving portraits and family pictures the best thing about this book.

On the negative side I find the lack of a CD containing all of the photos used in the book a bit of a disappointment. However, please don't let this deter you from considering this worthwhile book. Being able to use the same photos as those contained in the book isn't absolutely necessary to follow along with the steps outlined for a particular effect. Your own photos will be fine.

Some people have also expressed displeasure at Kelby's attempted witty writing style. I didn't find this an issue at all. All the end of the day Kelby is telling us what to do to achieve an effect in Photoshop in as simply a manner as possible - no complex explanations. Just what you need to get it done.

I am using The Photoshop CS for Digital Photographers and find it very instructive and Scott Kelby houmor makes it fun to read.
Hartvig

A must-have for beginning Photoshop users! I knew nothing about Photoshop and this book made it soooooo simple! You don't need to be computer savy. You can simply flip to the task you want to complete and follow the instructions - GREAT!!!

This book is easy to read, especially with the jokes that help it along. Even though the jokes are cheesy sometimes it feels like a friend is teaching you how to use the program. There's a lot of great shortcuts and tricks that I didn't know about, before reading this book, very glad I bought it.

This one really is geared to the photographer and spends two chapters on the file browser which will save you time and get your files organized, saving you time in the long run. It also tells you how to do watermarks, copyrights, and a few ways to present to clients.

I've learned an astonishing amount from this book, and I haven't even had a chance to try everything in it. It has step by step instructions complete with illustrations, and makes a complex program easier to use and in ways other books don't mention. And I found the commentary humorous without being excessive.

This book gives me everything I needed to work with Adobe Photoshop CS. It gives you a step by step processing of photos.

I take a lot of photos for a newsletter and for a community website. This book gives a lot of excellent tips on how to work effective with photos - and it's funny!

I have a shelves full of books on photography, photoshop and all subjects that touch on these subjects. This is a book that I pull out again and again. It is easy to follow and I liked the way Scott included a little of his personality with personal humor. ( I am used to DRY DRY DRY!!.. It was kind of nice to actually have a laugh or two while I learned!) I've seen a lot of people claim it, but, this guy REALLY IS A PHOTOSHOP EXPERT! This book is not an indepth study of photoshop or color or what camera you should buy, it just gets right down to the nuts and bolts of getting specific things done. It is more like one useful technique after another but good enough that I still wanted to just read it cover to cover like a normal book. While everything in there did not get 'gold stars' from me, the results were mostly very good. If I ever get them committed to memory I wont have to keep pulling out to see 'what did Scott say to do about that?' He lays out step by step instructions for things like enlarging a photo (up to poster size) with minimum loss in quality. Personally, I was quite pleased. I was 'beginning' to 'maybe intermediate' photoshop user when I purchased.

It is an excellent book, but I didn't give it a 5-stars rating for the following reasons:

1)The author tried to make the book interesting by sharing his anecdotes with the readers. I would rather see more useful information.

2) The book didn't not have much cover on coloring, and fixing landscape image.

3) The author often presented a step-by-step instruction without much explanation. For example, no explanation on various blending mode (Overlay, Soft Light), and color mode (RGB, LAB, CMYK).

All in all, it is a excellent book if you are interested in facial retouching and sharpening techniques.

I probaby own, or have owned at one time, at least six million books about Photoshop, and this one is really the only one I need. It's a joke at my house that I'm always in front of my computer, with *that book* on my lap. I actually have a graphic design degree, and I still refer to "that book" at least once a week for practical guidance on how to solve a specific issue with a specific photo. I highly recommend it, and have purchased copies for several people-you know, those people who say, "Hey! Can you fix this photo for me?"

Once you are a bit comfortable with Photoshop, this tutorial adds a lot of neat, well-illustrated and descriptive tricks (without explaining the why). Probably offers the best resource on Photo Browser essentials (sure liked the contact sheet to fit an archival CD jewel box). And the section on non-destructive dodging and burning with adjustment layer mask, alone, is well worth the admission price; with the pot sweetened by sound approaches to color management and correction. Production is of high quality, and color figures accompany each step.

Yet the content doesn't get the 5 star rating it should, for lack of an accompanying CD with gallery of before-and-after images so you may follow the illustrations in the text step-by-step and find out where you went off-track. It's like doing an appendectomy right after reading an illustrated textbook. The website images take your precious time to download, and then are so highly compressed as to limit their utility in color correction; worse, most are marred by an intrusive and unsightly 'BrandX' water mark - a thoughtless timewaster that detracts from the intrinsic learning value.

Fabulous book. This should be the FIRST Photoshop book you buy, and for many photographers, it may be the only book you will need. He gives very detailed specific steps on how to improve almost every photo ill. Fantastic book! Better than any other Photoshop book I own.

Scott Kelby has written the hands down best book for digital photograph retouching on the market. After working with photoshop for five years or so with a knowledge of it patched together from many different courses and books, I discovered Kelbys book. At last a book that teaches the things I want to learn, and only the things I want to learn. This is a strictly for digital photographers, graphic designers keep clicking this is not for you. But for photographers, buy this, download the images from his web site and then do the hundred or so lessons using the same photos he uses in the book, all supplied by big name photographers. When you are finished you will editing like a pro, nothing has made photoshop nearly as useful for me as has this excellent book.