25 Must Read Photoshop eBooks

Uncategorized | Rohit | May 24, 2010 at 2:55 pm

Maximize the power of the industry-standard tool for graphics professionals With these compiled ebooks, you will discover how to bring your creative concepts to completion using the latest version of the number-one graphic design software. You will learn how to use brushes, shapes, and special effects; master layers and filters; color-correct images; manage workflow; and much more. Written by an Various Adobe Certified Experts and Adobe Certified Instructors, these hands-on tutorials featuresreal-world examples.

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book

Price: $43.99 | Have a Look | By: Adobe Creative Team

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop CS4. Fourteen lessons in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book cover basic and advanced techniques in Adobe Photoshop, the world’s best image-editing software. Learn how to retouch digital photos, work with layers and masks, navigate the workspace, prepare images print, and explore the latest features. Tips, extra-credit exercises, and step-by-step lessons help you become more productive using Photoshop. Learn to correct and enhance digital photos, create image composites, transform images in perspective, and prepare images for print and the web. Combine images for extended depth of field, and try out the new 3D features in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended.

Photoshop CS4 For Dummies

Price: $29.99 | Have a Look | By: Bauer, Peter

This latest version of Photoshop has a few new tricks up its sleeve and Adobe Photoshop CS4 For Dummies will teach you how to use them. From the basics like getting your images into and out of Photoshop to enhancing, cropping, and color correction, it’s all here!
You’ll get all of the basics of digital images and master the importing and exporting of images. You’ll find out how to create easy enhancements like adding shadows and highlights and making color natural, in addition to learning how to use the Adobe camera raw plug-in. Before you know it, you’ll be making beautiful “art” with Photoshop by combining images, precision edges, dressing up images, painting in Photoshop, and using filters. You can even streamline your work in Photoshop using advanced techniques.

Photoshop CS5 All-in-One For Dummies

Price: $39.99 | Have a Look | By: Obermeier, Barbara

This full-color guide includes nine self-contained minibooks: Photoshop Fundamentals; Image Essentials; Selections; Painting, Drawing, and Typing; Working with Layers; Channels and Masks; Filters and Distortions; Retouching and Restoration; and Photoshop and Print. Includes all the basics for beginners as well as how to manage color, modify and transform selections and paths, make corrections with filters, use the liquefy command, prepare graphics for print or the Web, create contact sheets and picture packages, and more.

The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers

Price:$43.99 | Have a Look | By:Kelby, Scott

It’s not a bunch of theory; it doesn’t challenge readers to come up with their own settings or figure it out on their own. Instead, it shows them, step by step, the exact techniques used by today’s cutting-edge digital photographers and retouchers, and it does something that virtually no other Photoshop book has ever done–it tells you flat-out which settings to use, when to use them, and why. Including coverage of all the newest features of CS4–such as nondestructive corrections with the Adjustments panel, the new Vibrance adjustment layer, better Dodge and Burn tools, and enhanced Auto-Align and Auto-Blend panoramic features–The Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers is full-color, graphically rich, and contains project-based examples of every key step in the digital photography process. Integrating all the newest features of Photoshop CS4 into the book’s workflow, Scott shows readers how to work with their images like a pro, from importing and organization to correction and output. Readers will learn all they need to know to create stellar images using Photoshop CS4.

Professional Photoshop

Price:$47.99 | Have a Look | By:Margulis, Dan

The Classic Guide to Color Correction is arguably the most influential book in Photoshop history. It is commonly referred to as ”the bible of electronic prepress” and, since its first edition in 1994, has introduced most of the advanced correction techniques that are assumed knowledge for today’s professionals.

With this edition you’ll learn to grasp concepts regarding color, curves, and channels and will be rewarded with a in depth understanding of the most advanced Photoshop techniques.

Photoshop Secrets

price:$7.00 | Have a Look | By:Margulis, Dan

In this book you’re about to learn some of the secrets and tips to enhance your images, photos and other projects that you are trying to create and make look professional. First, you need to get rid of that software that you’ve been using for years. Besides, it can only do so much for you. A lot of the features that you need are not there. However, there is software that can really enhance your projects and blow them out of the water

Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature

price:$29.69 | Have a Look | By: Matt Kloskowski

When Photoshop guru Matt Kloskowski was asked why he wrote this book, he replied, “It’s simple: I wanted to write the Photoshop book that I wished was around when I was learning Photoshop”. You’ve always known that layers were the key to understanding Photoshop, and now you have a resource to show you exactly how. With Matt’s clear, easy-to-follow, and concise writing style you’ll learn about.

Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows: The Missing Manual

Price:$29.69 | Have a Look | By: Barbara Brundage

Photoshop Elements lets you do practically anything you want to your digital images. You can colorize black-and-white photos, remove red-eye, or distort shapes. With easy, step-by-step instructions, Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows: The Missing Manual gets you ready to make the most out of all the features available. Ideal for scrapbookers, serious and casual photographers, and budding graphic artists alike, Photoshop Elements 8 is more powerful and easier to use than previous versions. But figuring out how and when to use the program’s tools is still tricky. With this book, you’ll learn not only what each tool does, but also when it makes the most sense to use it and why. You get easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for everything from importing photos to organizing, editing, sharing, and storing your images and further many more.

Creative Photoshop CS4: Digital Illustration and Art Techniques

Price:$26.37 | Have a Look | By: Derek Lea

A truly unique guide to the creative side of Photoshop showcasing phenomenal artwork by one of the world’s best. This is one of very few Photoshop books that focuses on the creation of digital art, rather than the techniques required for certain standard tricks and effects…all of the tutorial images are genuinely inspiring, rich in textures, reflecting the author’s emphasis on the importance of incorporating scans of real world objects into digital illustration…Congratulations to Derek Lea, and needless to say, highly recommended!

Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks

Price:$29.69 | Have a Look | By: Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby, co-host of Photoshop User TV and the world’s #1 bestselling Photoshop author, is back to unlock the secrets of an amazing new collection of the latest eye-popping, jaw-dropping, Photoshop special effects—the same kind that made Scott’s previous editions of this book one of the top selling Photoshop books in history.

You’ll learn some of the most closely guarded Photoshop CS4 special effects—the same ones you see on TV, in magazines, and on the Web. Using Scott’s simple step-by-step method, with hundreds of full-color images, you’ll see exactly how it’s all done. The book is written so clearly, and it is so easy to follow, you’ll immediately be able to create all of these effects yourself.

How to Cheat in Photoshop CS4: The art of creating photorealistic montages

Price:$29.67 | Have a Look | By: Steve Caplin

Learn how to duplicate amazing effects using Caplin’s quick and easy shortcuts… brimming with easy-to-follow instructions on compositing creative effects that are fun, useful and sometimes just plain silly. A superb set of step-by-step how-to guides from the master himself… quick, easy-to-grasp shortcuts.What makes Cheat so unique are the gems that other volumes don’t cover. The juiciest bits that real artists hunger for are here. Dig in, dig deep, and Shop yourself mad. Over all Photoshop CS4 edition of Steve Caplin’s widely acclaimed classic on photomontage.

The Photoshop Elements 8 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)

Price:$31.49 | Have a Look | By: SScott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski

This book (for Windows and Mac) breaks new ground by doing 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 things out on your own. Instead, it does something that virtually no other Elements book has ever done—it tells you flat-out which settings to use, when to use them, and why. If you’re looking for one of those “tell-me-everything-about-the-Unsharp-Maskfilter” books, this isn’t it. You can grab any other Elements book on the shelf, because they all do that. Instead, this book gives you the inside tips and tricks of the trade for organizing, correcting, editing, sharpening, retouching, and presenting your photos like a pro. You’ll be absolutely amazed at how easy and effective these techniques are—once you know the secrets.

Adobe Photoshop CS3: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks (Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks)

Price:$13.59 | Have a Look | By: Lynette Kent

Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks provides adventurous Photoshop users with a visual reference on how to use the bells and whistles found in the latest version of Photoshop. Broken out in 10 chapters, with 10 tasks per chapter, Photoshop®: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks covers 100 cool and useful tips and tricks that can be performed in the newest release of Photoshop. Full-color screen shots and numbered, step-by-step instructions show you how to take their Photoshop skills to new heights. Order the latest edition today and make your pictures pop.

Photoshop CS5 for Nature Photographers: A Workbook in a Book

Price:$31.49 | Have a Look | By: Ellen Anon, Josh Anon, George Lepp, and Tony Sweet

Award-winning nature photographers Ellen and Josh Anon reveal their secrets to creating stunning nature images using their field-tested methods and the very latest Photoshop techniques. The book is packed with practical workflows and smart, timesaving ways to use Photoshop’s broad array of tools to optimize images—from improving tonal values to adding effects to creating surreal montages with composites. The book is lavishly illustrated with spectacular examples from the authors as well as from some of the most esteemed nature photographers today.

Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide

Price:$19.79 | Have a Look | By: Jeff Carlson

With Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start with a tour of the interface and image-editing basics, or they can look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to show readers how to capture and import photos, reduce red eye, enhance color, work with layers, and much more. Coverage includes: applying direct effects with the Adobe Smart Brush, softening surfaces and keeping edges crisp with a new filter, and finding photos easily with keywords.

The Best of Adobe Photoshop: Techniques and Images from Professional Photographers (Masters (Amherst Media))

Price:$19.79 | Have a Look | By: Bill Hurter

This book details new, unexpected, and successful techniques used by artists, illustrators, commercial photographers, album designers, wedding photographers, portrait photographers, and teachers. Professional and advanced amateurs will benefit from the instructions for efficiently using the software, minimizing the computer time spent on each photo.

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Classroom in a Book

Price:$34.64 | Have a Look | By: Adobe Creative Team

With this book, you learn by doing, getting your feet wet immediately as you progress through a series of hands-on projects that build on your growing Photoshop knowledge. Simple step-by-step instructions, review questions at the end of each chapter, and a companion CD with all of the book’s project files make learning a breeze as the Adobe Creative Team takes you on a self-paced tour of the image-editing powerhouse. This bestselling guide has been completely revised to cover all of Photoshop CS2′s new features, which include advanced tools for digital photographers, such as a new Spot Healing Brush for correcting scratches or blemishes, and Smart Sharpen for fixing photo blurring. Photoshop CS2 also includes loads of new creative tools, such as Vanishing Point and Image Warp.

Photoshop CS4: Essential Skills (Photography Essential Skills)

Price:$26.37 | Have a Look | By: Mark Galer M.Ed. and Philip Andrews

This inspirational guide to creative image editing will help you master the essential features and tools of Adobe Photoshop CS4. Broken into three parts to form a structured, self-study guide, Photoshop CS4: Essential Skills covers the foundation skills and more advanced techniques you need to enhance photographs creatively and professionally. Practical, step-by-step imaging projects then give you the chance to practice your skills and see what you can achieve with the right tools and knowledge.

Photoshop CS4, Volume 1: Visual QuickStart Guide

Price:$23.09 | Have a Look | By: Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas

This edition of the Visual QuickStart Guide to Photoshop CS4 by bestselling authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas covers Adobe Photoshop as well as Adobe Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw (which are included with Photoshop). The elegant layout and full-color photographs make the book not only visually appealing, but also easy to use. Tasks are presented as clear, step-by-step instructions. Most of the photos appearing in the book are available to readers to download so they can follow along closely with the instructions.

Worth 1000 Photoshop Trick

Price:Free | Have a Look

This is an amazing collection of 1000 Photoshop tutorials and techniques, honestly 1000! Everyone should have this, from the pro to the novice. Be warned, it will take you a few days to browse the book. Essential.

25 ESSENTIAL Photoshop Moves Ebook

Price:Free | Have a Look

In this book, the author has picked out 25 key tasks or tools that he would expect an experienced Photoshop user to know. These Photoshop lessons include selection techniques, shortcuts, time-saving tools, montage skills and practical applications of Photoshop that he himself uses daily in real-life jobs. Large illustrations, step-by-step explanations and simple instructions will have you creating Photoshop art like a professional in no time.

PhotographyBB Free PDF Magazine

Price:Free | Have a Look

The PhotographyBB Online Magazine is composed by a hardworking team of volunteer contributing authors who’s goal is to teach beginners all about digital photography and image processing. We would appreciate any donation of any size to help keep this magazine completely free and to assist with our hosting, bandwidth, and production costs. If you enjoy the magazine and find us to be a helpful resource, please consider leaving a small donation, it goes a long way!

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS3 in 24 Hours

Price:$23.39 | Have a Look | By: Carla Rose and Kate Binder

You can master Photoshop CS3 faster than you ever thought possible—even if you have no Photoshop or image editing experience at all! In just 24 hands-on, step-by-step lessons, this book will teach you all the core Photoshop skills you need to get great results—in digital photography, graphic design, painting, or anything else!

The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Dictionary: The A to Z desktop reference of Photoshop

Price:$22.76 | Have a Look | By: Philip Andrews

As the name suggests, this is a handy and easy to use reference for all things Photoshop. Designed in an index format, Bargh’s informative book is well-illustrated and a valuable asset for all getting into digital imaging. The book makes an excellent visual reference guide and should prove very useful for the beginner through to the advanced user. Over all it is a the indispensable encyclopedic guide to Photoshop’s tools and feature.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 on Demand

Price:$19.79 | Have a Look | By: Steve Johnson and Perspection Inc.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.
Inside the Book:
• Improve productivity with the CS4 interface and templates
• Use automatic layer alignment and blending to work with objects
• Use live filters to vie w and modify the results of opening files
• Use more precise color correction to enhance a photo
• Easily convert images to black and white