--- product_id: 3879494 title: "The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)" price: "VT8120" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/3879494-the-adobe-photoshop-cs5-book-for-digital-photographers-voices-that store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Killer Tips for power users Comprehensive step-by-step guide Master new CS5 photo editing features The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) **Price:** VT8120 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📸 Elevate your photo edits—don’t just use Photoshop, master it! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) - **How much does it cost?** VT8120 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/3879494-the-adobe-photoshop-cs5-book-for-digital-photographers-voices-that) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Upgrade Your Editing Game Instantly:** Stay ahead with the latest CS5 features not covered in older editions - • **Killer Tips at Every Chapter’s End:** Boost your workflow with insider shortcuts & expert hacks - • **Designed for Busy Digital Photographers:** Quickly find what you need with non-linear, easy-to-browse format - • **Step-by-Step Recipes for Stunning Edits:** Follow precise slider settings & techniques that deliver results - • **Unlock Photoshop CS5’s Full Potential:** Master HDR Pro, Mini Bridge & Camera Raw like a pro ## Overview The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby is a must-have, practical guide that unlocks the power of Photoshop CS5’s latest features. Packed with clear, prescriptive instructions and expert tips, it helps photographers quickly master advanced editing tools like HDR Pro and Camera Raw noise reduction. Ideal for professionals and enthusiasts alike, this book transforms your workflow and image quality, making it the essential companion to your Photoshop upgrade. ## Description Are you ready for an amazing new version of The Photoshop Book that breaks all the rules? Scott Kelby, Editor and Publisher of Photoshop User magazine—and the best-selling Photoshop author in the world today—once again takes this book to a whole new level as he uncovers more of the latest, most important, and most useful new Adobe Photoshop CS5 techniques for digital photographers. This major update to his award-winning, record-breaking book does something for digital photographers that’s never been done before—it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly “how to do it.” It’s not a bunch of theory; it doesn’t challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure it out on your own. Instead, Scott shows you step by step the exact techniques used by today’s cutting-edge digital photographers, and best of all, he shows you flat-out exactly which settings to use, when to use them, and why. That’s why the previous editions of this book are widely used as the official study guide in photography courses at colleges and universities around the world. Each year, Scott trains thousands of professional photographers how to use Photoshop, and almost without exception they have the same questions, the same problems, and the same challenges—and that’s exactly what he covers in this book. You’ll learn: The sharpening techniques the pros really use. The pros’ tricks for fixing the most common digital photo problems fast! The step-by-step setup for getting what comes out of your printer to match exactly what you see onscreen. A whole chapter on how to process HDR (High Dynamic Range) images using CS5’s new Merge to HDR Pro. How to master CS5’s new Content-Aware Fill. How to color correct any photo without breaking a sweat. How to process RAW images like a pro (plus how to take advantage of all the new Camera Raw features in CS5!). How to use the included gray card to make color correction just a matter of three clicks. How to show your work like a pro! A host of shortcuts, workarounds, and slick “insider” tricks to send your productivity through the roof! Plus, Scott includes a special bonus chapter with his own CS5 workflow, from start to finish, and each chapter ends with a Photoshop Killer Tips section, packed with time-saving, job-saving tips that make all the difference. If you’re a digital photographer, and if you’re ready to learn all the “tricks of the trade”—the same ones that today’s leading pros use to correct, edit, sharpen, retouch, and present their work—then you’re holding the book that will do just that. Review: Should Be Bundled with Photoshop - I bought the three previous editions of this book for previous versions of Photoshop and refer to them constantly, so buying this one when I upgraded to CS5 was an automatic decision. As a member of a camera club, I process lots of photos for competitions and other purposes and Scott's books have made all the difference in the quality of my final images. An advantage Scott's books have over some other Photoshop books I've tried is that his books are both descriptive and prescriptive. Some descriptive books tell you, in great detail, how Photoshop features work, but not when to use them, what settings work best, and why you'd use one technique over another. Scott includes some description, but devotes his time to prescribing very specifically what you should do, including exact numbers for such things as the sliders in the HDR panel, for sharpening different types of photos, etc. This is a cookbook, and it's got great recipes. I keep it right next to my computer and look up techniques, both new ones and ones I've used before whose steps I've forgotten. And the fact that this is a book--and not a YouTube video, instructional DVD, online manual or help forum, or e-book--matters. Those sources all have their place, but for convenience, rapid and random access, and the ability to follow a step-by-step approach at your own pace, a book is the best reference source. I understand why some reviewers say they don't think it's necessary to buy this edition if you have the previous edition, but I've had that same decision to make three times, and I believe you're missing out if you don't "upgrade" the book when you upgrade the application. If you don't, it's like buying the new model of the car you owned before, but not buying the new owner's manual and instead just using the old one. Sure, some of the features are the same and work the same, like the brake, but you're missing out on learning about and using new features that give you new capabilities, like the navigation system. For most people, those new features are one of main reasons they chose to upgrade in the first place. The section on HDR in the new book is good example. There was a section on HDR in the CS4 book, but Scott's take-away message was, Don't use it--use Photomatix instead. In this book he says, "Photoshop CS5's HDR Pro is one of the biggest stars of the entire CS5 upgrade ... which makes this a really usable and powerful tool ...". To take advantage of the new functionality you paid for--like HDR, the new Mini Bridge, and so on--you need the new book. One more point on the comparison between new and older editions of the book: The sections that appear in both books are similar, but not identical. They've been revised to reflect changes in the program, include new demo images, and have some changed sub-sections. Also, don't throw out your CS4 (and previous) books--some really useful techniques in each book don't make it into the new book; not because they're outdated but because if everything gets carried over from book to book, there would be no room for the new material. I also like the addition of the Killer Tips section at the end of each chapter. Using them saves time and make you feel like a power user. All in all, this book is such a key to producing much-improved images with Photoshop that Adobe should bundle it with the program. Review: The truth about this book - Whenever I consider buying any item, I always look for reviews of the item, and often pay more attention to negative reviews. Then I weight the negative reviews contents against the more positive reviews, especially if they are equal in number or the negative reviews make up a substantial number of the overall reviews. This book was no different, but I must say that after receiving it and using it for over a week, the negative reviews were baseless. The book is well written, and the author has a sense of humor which makes things easier at least for me. So why were the negative reviews wrong? Simple, they must have skipped over the section in the front of the book titled "Seven Things You'll Wish Had Known Before Reading This Book". Reading that section is imperative to reading the book, and those who skip it write bad reviews. As a computer geek who started out with computers in the late 60's (yes, no typo there), I have seen numerous books written on how to use various software programs, and even been a part of writing some. This book ranks up with the best I have seen. It is written to what I would consider a 9th or 10th grade level, which does not mean it's dumbed down, only that people with reading skill levels of that level or higher will easily understand what the author is telling them. The steps the author takes are logical and progress at a rate that makes using the book not only easy, but you can put it down and come back a few days later and instantly pick up where you left off. For do-it-you-self-as-you-read books, it is great. Photo Shop is a wonderful software package, but it is very complicated and not at all user intuitive (unless you happen to work for Adobe, maybe). This book sorts that out and makes sense out it, and along the way, it will also help you understand your digital camera and become a better photographer at the same time. If you are looking for a book to get you started with PS, are a PS user who is upgrading to a new version, or even if you have experience using PS, like I do, this book is a great tool and teacher. ## Features - New - Mint Condition - Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon - Guaranteed packaging - No quibbles returns ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #3,843,558 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #395 in Adobe Photoshop #592 in Photography (Books) #1,244 in Computer Graphics | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 313 Reviews | ## Images ![The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71XLWcnH8nL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Should Be Bundled with Photoshop *by N***0 on November 23, 2010* I bought the three previous editions of this book for previous versions of Photoshop and refer to them constantly, so buying this one when I upgraded to CS5 was an automatic decision. As a member of a camera club, I process lots of photos for competitions and other purposes and Scott's books have made all the difference in the quality of my final images. An advantage Scott's books have over some other Photoshop books I've tried is that his books are both descriptive and prescriptive. Some descriptive books tell you, in great detail, how Photoshop features work, but not when to use them, what settings work best, and why you'd use one technique over another. Scott includes some description, but devotes his time to prescribing very specifically what you should do, including exact numbers for such things as the sliders in the HDR panel, for sharpening different types of photos, etc. This is a cookbook, and it's got great recipes. I keep it right next to my computer and look up techniques, both new ones and ones I've used before whose steps I've forgotten. And the fact that this is a book--and not a YouTube video, instructional DVD, online manual or help forum, or e-book--matters. Those sources all have their place, but for convenience, rapid and random access, and the ability to follow a step-by-step approach at your own pace, a book is the best reference source. I understand why some reviewers say they don't think it's necessary to buy this edition if you have the previous edition, but I've had that same decision to make three times, and I believe you're missing out if you don't "upgrade" the book when you upgrade the application. If you don't, it's like buying the new model of the car you owned before, but not buying the new owner's manual and instead just using the old one. Sure, some of the features are the same and work the same, like the brake, but you're missing out on learning about and using new features that give you new capabilities, like the navigation system. For most people, those new features are one of main reasons they chose to upgrade in the first place. The section on HDR in the new book is good example. There was a section on HDR in the CS4 book, but Scott's take-away message was, Don't use it--use Photomatix instead. In this book he says, "Photoshop CS5's HDR Pro is one of the biggest stars of the entire CS5 upgrade ... which makes this a really usable and powerful tool ...". To take advantage of the new functionality you paid for--like HDR, the new Mini Bridge, and so on--you need the new book. One more point on the comparison between new and older editions of the book: The sections that appear in both books are similar, but not identical. They've been revised to reflect changes in the program, include new demo images, and have some changed sub-sections. Also, don't throw out your CS4 (and previous) books--some really useful techniques in each book don't make it into the new book; not because they're outdated but because if everything gets carried over from book to book, there would be no room for the new material. I also like the addition of the Killer Tips section at the end of each chapter. Using them saves time and make you feel like a power user. All in all, this book is such a key to producing much-improved images with Photoshop that Adobe should bundle it with the program. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The truth about this book *by T***M on July 1, 2012* Whenever I consider buying any item, I always look for reviews of the item, and often pay more attention to negative reviews. Then I weight the negative reviews contents against the more positive reviews, especially if they are equal in number or the negative reviews make up a substantial number of the overall reviews. This book was no different, but I must say that after receiving it and using it for over a week, the negative reviews were baseless. The book is well written, and the author has a sense of humor which makes things easier at least for me. So why were the negative reviews wrong? Simple, they must have skipped over the section in the front of the book titled "Seven Things You'll Wish Had Known Before Reading This Book". Reading that section is imperative to reading the book, and those who skip it write bad reviews. As a computer geek who started out with computers in the late 60's (yes, no typo there), I have seen numerous books written on how to use various software programs, and even been a part of writing some. This book ranks up with the best I have seen. It is written to what I would consider a 9th or 10th grade level, which does not mean it's dumbed down, only that people with reading skill levels of that level or higher will easily understand what the author is telling them. The steps the author takes are logical and progress at a rate that makes using the book not only easy, but you can put it down and come back a few days later and instantly pick up where you left off. For do-it-you-self-as-you-read books, it is great. Photo Shop is a wonderful software package, but it is very complicated and not at all user intuitive (unless you happen to work for Adobe, maybe). This book sorts that out and makes sense out it, and along the way, it will also help you understand your digital camera and become a better photographer at the same time. If you are looking for a book to get you started with PS, are a PS user who is upgrading to a new version, or even if you have experience using PS, like I do, this book is a great tool and teacher. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good for Photographers *by D***S on September 5, 2013* I'm not quite sure how to summarize this book, but will give it a try of course. Kelby knows his stuff, no question, and he does a pretty good job of filling you in on what you don't already know with respect to fixing those average, as well as good, photos of yours. You WILL learn to make better prints in the end, though Kelby only touches on printing at the end of the book. The book is a Camera Raw (which I really needed) and Photoshop primer, except that you do need to know a lot of the basics, especially of Photoshop, already. (Here's where it's hard to summarize.) He will tell you of some fairly basic stuff, such as how to use Curves, how to Crop in a number of different ways, how to sharpen and/or reduce noise, how to Dodge and Burn, and all the rest to much to mention, but he doesn't really ever explain what a Layer IS. You see? He assumes you know that already, that is, what a Layer is and reasons for using them at all. That's also true of masking and a few other basics of Photoshop. Actually, I think his chapters concerning Camera Raw are some of the best in the book, as it is a bit more explanatory, or so it seemed to me. But then I had less knowledge of Camera Raw than of Photoshop. So, it's not a book for beginners but it's still a book for beginners. Sorry about that. If you've at least got the basics of Photoshop already then this is a very good book that teaches about all of Photoshop, and Camera Raw, photographic capabilities and what you can do with those. Don't look for a chapter on Photoshop 3D, however, or, say, anything about painting in Photoshop. Those aren't what he teaches. He teaches photography like it says on the cover of the book, "for digital photographers." There are many more tools in Photoshop not necessarily intended for photography, though Photoshop remains first and foremost a digital darkroom, and Camera Raw even more so. Camera Raw is strictly for photography and it should not be ignored, even if Photoshop by itself has most of the same tools. Camera Raw can still outshine Photoshop in certain respects and Kelby points out where as well as how. He's excellent on Camera Raw in particular. I can't possibly list all that's in the book, as it's jam-packed with methods both basic and more advanced, bearing in mind that Kelby is himself a commercial photographer--at least in this book. At the end of each chapter are his "Photoshop Killer Tips," a lot of which are pretty neat, if not all of them. A few aren't so "killer." But most are and well worth knowing. Can't give any away here, but I'd guess that some of them aren't known by a lot of pros. Kelby will also lead you to a fantastic plug-in to try out and then buy if you can afford it. Man, it's a really good one, in my opinion! I'll probably spend the dough to get it after having tried it out. It includes, though Kelby doesn't say a lot about the plug-in per se, a terrific noise reducing tool, something Photoshop notoriously lacks. Camera Raw's is better. The book is very well organized, which I always appreciate. Having said that, and after adding that what is in this book could make you into a pro as long as you otherwise take great photos, there are spots where the book suffers from insufficient explanation of some method or other, or of some tool or other; i.e. using Photoshop's new Refine Edge tool. If you work at these things long enough you'll eventually work out how it works, but on these occasions a little more in the way of explanation would help. I took a star off for that reason in general. In fact, all of these instruction books suffer from a common syndrome that really bugs me; namely, using as illustrations photos that are perfectly suited to the use of a given method or tool. I get why authors do it but I'm still bugged by it. Just once I'd like to see one of them use a really tough example of how to do something. E.g., try that Refine Edge tool on a photo with a background a lot more busy and it doesn't work so well, or try dodging or burning an area not so well defined as in the case of the photo used by an author specifically chosen for the purpose of illustrating dodging and burning. I tried to get the Refine Edge tool to work on a photo of some trees against a fairly dark background, wherein contrast was not so great, and forgetaboutit. Not happening. Against a clear bright sky it would have been easy, but not all photos come like that. And I wonder if there's a way I could do it but just can't find out or if there's just no way. (One way that helps a little with the Refine Edge tool is to temporarily blow up contrast and THEN try the tool. Hey, Adobe, the older tool was better.) Most all of these instructional writers are lazy about this, including Kelby, who's otherwise an engaging and clear writer 95% of the time. And not to say Kelby isn't ever critical of both programs. He certainly is on several occasions, even chastising Adobe, and I LIKE THAT. The book really is very good and I DO recommend it for serious photographers. 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