The Photoshop Channels Book

by Scott Kelby

The Barnes & Noble Review
Channels are the secret behind many of today s best Photoshop images. If you re not comfortable using them, major Photoshop guru Scott Kelby will fix that ASAP.

Kelby s new hands-on guide assumes no channels experience whatsoever. You ll start with the absolute basics: viewing existing channels (including some nifty keyboard shortcuts); creating and isolating new alpha channels; and preparing channel masks. Every chapter ends with shortcuts and Q&As -- many, we suspect, drawn from Kelby s live teaching.

You ll learn how to use channels to improve detail and crispness without oversaturating color. Kelby shows how to make landscapes more vibrant; sharpen images without exaggerating noise; blend channels to create one great image from two photos. There are chapters on special effects (check out the "infrared" example); and even optimizing web images. Didn t realize channels could do all that? They can. So can you. Bill Camarda, from the March 2006 href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/newslet... Only

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction

275 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2006

About the author

Scott Kelby is an American author and publisher of periodicals dealing in Macintosh and Personal Computer software, specifically for design professionals, photographers, and artists.

Kelby is editor and publisher of Photoshop User and Layers magazines, president and co-founder of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and is president of Kelby Media Group, an Oldsmar, Florida-based software training, education, and publishing firm.
Kelby is a photographer, designer, and the award-winning author of more than 40 books.

Reviews

[Jennifer]

This isn't really a read-straight-through book, although I found I did a lot of that anyway. I wanted to jump into a feature of Photoshop that wasn't in Photoshop Elements, and channels was it. I learned a lot about digital photo noise, light, and how cool digital photo editing is (and I am not talking about fixing red-eyes and cropping).

[christy · Rating 4 out of 5]

absolutely fab photoshop book! great for beginners and pros alike.