Photoshop Cs2 Before & After Makeovers

For novices, learning their way around Photoshop can be daunting to say the least. No technophobe, me, with limited patience for technobabble, I was able to dive right on in with Tally's hands on tutorials. Too often, in my opinion, some of the reviews of books on software applications are written by people needing to tell/impress the world with how smart they are. The attitude is: "I can understand all this arcane junk, and you can't." As a professional newspaper photographer for many years, knowing your f-stops and your film are far more apt to lead to your photo ending up on page one than is knowing that a Nikon camera has 1,000 plus parts. Yes, it's a beginner's book, but one I find myself going back to for reference time and again. A reader friendly introduction to Adobe's Photoshop. Highly recommended.

Hello, Taz Tally here, the author of Photoshop CS2 Before and After Makeovers. Greetings from glorious Alaska! I thought you might like to know a bit more about what is in my book and why I wrote it. For years, I have been teaching my Photoshop production techniques in my seminars. I have received numerous requests to gather many of my production techniques and tips in one volume ... well, this is it. I like to work quickly (to provide plenty of time for kayaking) as well as to produce good results, so I use lot's of shortcuts, many of which I include in this book. Some jobs and images require careful detailed work, and some do not ... often a quick and dirty technique is just as effective as a longer more time consuming one. I share with you how to recognize those images and challenges that require only Q & D attention, and those that require more. And you will learn a whole slew of the time tested approaches and Photoshop techniques that I use. I hope you enjoy this book ... please let me know what you think. Also, if you have your own Before and After projects and techniques you would like to share, please send them to me ... I am collecting projects and techniques for the second volume of Photoshop Before and After and am eager to include other peoples work and wisdom along with my own ... so feel free to send me your project ideas, and you might just get published! You can contact me via email at >