Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers, 2014 Release – Book Review

Screen Shot 2015-01-06 at 10.29.35 AMI’ve been using Photoshop for years, and although I have a lot of experience with this powerful software, still consider myself to be an ‘advanced beginner.’ Most of the things that I use Photoshop for involve more or less straightforward photo retouching and enhancing, with an occasional more advanced ‘artistic’ project. I’ve been looking into trying to improve my Photoshopping skills, and Martin Evening’s exhaustive book fits my needs and requirements perfectly and then some.

The writing is informative and lucid, the explanations are clear and easy to follow, but this is not necessarily a tutorial book. If you were looking for a more pedagogical introduction to the Photoshop’s photography techniques and capabilities, then I’d recommend that you check out the companion book “Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop.” However, even this book has plenty of examples and worked-out exercises that you’d learn a lot of useful techniques just by familiarizing yourself with Photoshop.

The book comes with a companion website which contains most of the images and other files that are used throughout the book for illustrative purposes. The website also includes video lessons and additional pdf documents. The video lessons sort of start in a middle of some exposition, without much in the way of introduction. Nonetheless, they are very informative and a nice resource to have.

This edition of the book has been updated with all the latest CC features, which can really help with your up-to-date workflow. However, most of the material is still pretty similar to the previous editions of the book, so if you are still using at least Photoshop CS5 you’ll be able to make a good use of this book.

This is a very large and exhaustive book, perhaps the single best resource out there right now for the photoshopping photographers. It is an invaluable resource that can teach you about all the aspects of Photoshop that you may encounter in your photography work. I primarily use it as a reference book for all the essential (and not so essential) photoshop tasks that I come across.

 

Bojan Tunguz

Bojan Tunguz was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he and his family fled during the civil war for the neighboring Croatia. Over the past two decades he has studied, lived and worked in the United States. He is a theoretical physicist with degrees from Stanford and University of Illinois. Tunguz has taught physics at several prominent liberal arts colleges and has been writing about physics, science and technology for more than a decade. He also has a wide spectrum of interests, and reads and writes about current events, society, culture, religion and politics. Over the years he has reviewed many of the books that he has read, and posted his reviews on various online outlets. In 2011 he had become a top 10 reviewer on Amazon.com, where he continues to be very active. Aside from reading and writing, Tunguz enjoys traveling, digital photography, hiking, and fitness. He resides with his wife in Indiana. You can follow my review updates on the following pages as well: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tunguzreview Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tunguzreviews Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104312842297641697463/posts

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