The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers

April 1, 2010 | By In Software |

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5 Comments so far

  1. M. Schueler on April 1st, 2010

    I received this book in a timely fashion, the content is excellent.. except, I’m missing pages 96 – 129. This would get a 5 star review otherwise…
    Rating: 1 / 5

  2. Brice Bowman on April 1st, 2010

    Scott Kelby is one of those Photoshop writers that thinks he is a comedian with his silly jokes which are not funny, and apparently is unaware that serious readers merely want a book that is straight forward with usable information.

    Kelby’s book contains too many boring anecdotes and is poorly organized made all the worse with a bunch of mundane pictures making this one of the worst Photoshop books I have ever read.

    This books gives the impression that it is a joke to Scott Kelby and could not care less about controlling himself and make an effort to write sensible book.

    Reader beware, if you are seriously looking for substantial information on Photoshop then do not buy this book. Even with the great discounts that Amazon gives this books is a rip-off.

    Rating: 1 / 5

  3. Carl M. Conliffe on April 1st, 2010

    I am so disappointed in this Scott Kelby book I just purchased. His Photoshop Elements 5.0 book was amazing. He went into great detail of how to perform all the major digital retouching tasks on portraits and other images. There were step by step instructions on how to execute them in PS Element 5.0. I thought he would basically update that book to do the same things in CS4. He didn’t. There were great retouching concepts and procedures that he does not even cover in the new book. This was such a disappointment especially because the user interfaces are not the same in the two versions of Photoshop so the techniques don’t translate. I have CS4 and can’t do half the things I could do in Elements 5.0. And not I am out $34 because Scott’s book was useless. I am a part time professional photographer shooting with a Canon 20D and L-Series lenses. In my career this book has been the second least useless thing I have purchased. It was a close second to the Canon tripod I purchased that broke after a month of use. Coincidentally it also cost about $34.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  4. Deus Ex on April 1st, 2010

    OK book – not as good as some of his earlier books – same stuff regurgitated. Disappointing that my copy has pages 97-128 missing! I hope Amazon will replace it at no cost to me – pretty cut about it.

    There are better books out there.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  5. S. Rodionov on April 1st, 2010

    After much hesistation i decided to buy this article, seeing how Scott was going on about it in one of his videos on site.

    Guess what? I dont think this book worth even paper that it was printed on.

    You got 1/3 of book going on about how great Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Bridge are. Then you got 1/3 of book rambling about printing.

    What you left with? Handful of reviews on how few tools work, and pretty worthless examples for any digital photographer who actually have at least some idea what they doing.

    And oh no – no DVD included. Yuppie.

    You will be better off buying few issues of “Advanced Photoshop” magazine for same amount of money.

    Sorry mr. Kelby, but this is pretty much worst book on Photoshop i ever saw.. Best one was Welcome To OZ!.. that one actually had DVD, had inspiration in it and had real world use for all the tools. Not just “how to convert to B&W” (sorry, its a single adjustment layer that everyone can figure out in few minutes).

    Rating: 1 / 5

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