This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe Photoshop CS3--written by the experts at Adobe Systems’ is ideal for beginning users who want to learn key Photoshop concepts and techniques, while readers who already have some experience with Photoshop can use this book to learn Photoshop CS3’s more advanced features and newest tools. Using clear, step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter walks readers through the creation of a specific project, with each chapter building on the reader’s growing knowledge of the program, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the skills learned in each lesson. Photoshop CS3, long the industry standard for digital imaging software, offers plenty of new features and enhancements for creative professionals and digital photographers alike. Users can enjoy unrivaled editing with non-destructive Smart Filters, improved curves, and adjustable cloning and healing with Preview Overlay. Increase productivity with Photoshop CS3’s streamlined interface and new Photoshop Lightroom " integration. Anyone who wants to create a composite will benefit from the revamped Photomerge® tool, which lets you apply automatic layer alignment and blending to your images, while the new Quick Selection tool lets you select pixels not just by color, but by texture and shape as well. And digital photographers will be pleased to know that they can now process multiple Camera Raw images in a fraction of the time it used to take.


Educational instructor notes?created to help teachers plan, organize, and time their lessons?are available for this book (and for other Classroom in a Book titles) at www.peachpit.com/instructorresources.

Classroom in a Book

Anyone learning photoshop for the first time, or upgrading to CS3, should get this book and read it through. Even if you are proficient in previous versions, this book opens up new concepts and introduces the reader to new tools, not available in previous versions of Adobe Photoshop. This book will truly increase productivity and improve quality.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Class in a book

This book and CD works very well by having you actually do the lessons from the CD so you practice as you read. This is an excellent way to learn. It has been very helpful.

Great Book for Photoshop Beginners

I previously took a Photoshop class and really did not feel I had a very good understanding of the program. This book takes you step by step through th program. I think I learned more from the book than I did the class!

Good Product, Good Price

This product was not quiet as good as promised, but very close. The shipping was fast and the price was great.

CS3-Classroom in a book

The book touches on some of the general broad tools of Photoshop CS3. The problem is that Photoshop CS3 is a very involved and somewhat complex software application. It takes more practice than this book can cover.

basic information

I go through this book periodically to remind myself of the basics. An important reminder.

Classroom in a Book, a novice’s tool

I am completely new to a photo editing program like Photoshop CS3 Using the book "Classroom in a Book" has made the learning process so much simpler. Lesson material used is present so that you can see exactly what is being presented in the lesson by comparing what you have done with the pictures presented with the text. You are provided with an overview of what you are expected to learn at the start of the lesson. Then you are taken step by step through the procedure. The text is written in a way that is easy to understand and not written as if you were an experienced photographer. Having been a classroom instructor I appreciate the manner in which the material is prsented. I have not felt overwhelmed by the material.

classroom in a book

Great experience. Delivered on time and the product was in great shape. Very Happy with the value.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book

Great book! I’m using it for a class, but I’m doing the lessons (chapter readings) on my own. You could pretty much learn photoshop just with this book alone! The CD it comes with is VERY helpful. Lots of great .mov files on there to learn from!

Photoshop Tutorial Book

Wow! I received this book before I even had the chance to purchase the software itself. The sender sent the book in the condition posted, and I’d gladly do business with this vendor in the future. Very Pleased!

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a book

Sorry I couldn’t give any review about this Photoshop CS3 book. I was very disappointed. I didn’t receive the book from the seller, bayaraa111, he took the money and quietly disappeared. He never responded to my emails. The only review I could give is stay away from this seller, check his reviews if you wanted, 100% negative from about more than a dozen of other unlucky buyers like me. I wish Amazon has a certified seller program to maintain its reputations and don’t let the sellers like bayaraa111 ruins them. I think the book is very helpfull for what we want to know and learn. I will give my thought about this book when I buy it from other sellers and Amazon resolves this matter for me. STATY AWAY FROM BAYARAA111 !!! STAY AWAY FROM BAYARAA111 !!! STAY AWAY FROM BAYARAA111 !!!

Good resource

I have really enjoyed this book. When you commit to doing the work, the book walks you through the tools and benefits from a beginning level to one much more advanced than mine.
An excellent resource!

VERY EASY TO USE

The classroom in a book is a needed companion if you are not a seasoned Photoshop user.

It has been greatly improved since the Photoshop CS version. Easier to understand and more direct to the issues I needed.

Great Learning Tool!

The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book is the perfect learning tool for any first time user of Photoshop. I had never used photoshop before so I bought this book to learn how and it makes it really easy to learn. Lessons are included in which it takes you through a step by step learning experience so when done you know how to use the tools learned in the particular lesson. I would definetly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn how to use photoshop!

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book

Step by Step book. You must have Adobe CS3 for better results. If you’re using an older version software it might not help that much; there are different new features with CS3. So you can’t follow it "step by step" with and older version of photoshop. The book itself is great. I’m always prefer the the books from the software manufacter.

Help a Lot

This product helped me a lot because I’m new using photoshop however for a experienced photographer using photoshop this book is too simple. If you are a beginner like I’m this book is for you. The book has great exercises to help you explore photoshop and practice while you are learning. Practice makes perfect.

written very well

usually i have a really hard time reading books on computer programs, but this book is written very well. I am actually able to read this book, and follow along on photoshop. It goes over the basics, but without seeming to spend entire chapters on how to open or save a file. It moves quickly, but not too quickly. This is definetly the best book, on a computer program, that i’ve ever read.

Great introductory book!

I’m a novice to Photoshop. This book has proven to provide me with all the core details on how to get up and running quickly. A friend has learned all the Adobe products using Classroom in a Book and I agree that you can get a great introduction to the product just by using this book. The CD contains great projects that the book walks you through. Well thought through.

Buyer Beware.

I recently attended a two-day course on Adobe Photoshop CS3 as part of my conversion to digital photography and digital imaging. At the end of that course the students were all given a copy of this book which contains a training CD Rom. As I was already booked onto the "advanced course" in 14 days time, I eagerly put the CD into my computer to practise what I had learned. Only then did I discover the CD would not work without my having first purchased and installed the full Adobe Photoshop CS3 software.

In my case, I had already ordered that software so it was only a matter of a few days delay before I could get started. Just be warned that you cannot use this product without having first installed the full software package - and that is a separate purchase altogether.

Once that’s done, it’s actually great. Anyone who starts at page one - with no previous experience and no knowledge of the difference between a tool bar and a menu bar, will find it all fit slowly into place as the book teaches one step at a time and then builds on each step until you find yourself automatically going back to something already learned as though you have been doing it for years.

My only criticism of the book is some pretty silly typing errors. In one example you are referred back to a previous page only to find they got the page number wrong. In another, a list of tools is incorrect.

I did find such basic errors to be quite surprising (and very annoying at the time) from a team of people who are otherwise so technically competent.

NM

great book

its a great guide. will help newbis much like my self out alot with photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop CS3: Classroom in a Book

The book is great. Just what I needed to learn something new and review what I already know about Photoshop.

Thank you so much

The book came in great shape, it showed up when I needed it for class. I was a little scared if the CD might get damaged from the small mail box but it actually stayed untouched and running beautifully. Thank you again for having the book!

pages missing

Entire pages (specifically, pages 147-162) are referenced in the index, but are absent from the book! And it doesn’t look like someone just tore the pages out. The pages are just not there. Also, as mentioned by other reviewers, this book is NOT for those who have been using Photoshop for at least a couple years.

Extremely Helpful!!

Having never really used Photoshop before, I found this book to be very helpful, instructive and fairly easy to follow. I transferred all of the assignments to my computer to practice.

Book needed for class

This book is very helpful. It was a good buy versus purchasing the book in our bookstore. Very prompt shipping. Thank you.

Great learning tool

A great way to learn Adobe CS3. Am working my way through the book - chapter by chapter and getting to know how to use the program and its many tools.

I heartily recommend this book to anyone who enjoys hands-on learning.

Michael Mindel

Adobe CS3 Classroom in a Book

This book is incredibly helpful! I’m using it in an art class I’m taking right now and I’ve learned so much about using photoshop. I would recommend this book to anyone!

Save your money and pass this one bye

I have this book and just finished chapter 7. The book is adequate at getting you acquainted with the program but does not delve very deep into the "why" of things. It’s easy to work your way through the images on the CD and everything comes out hunky-dory but they don’t do a very good job of explaining the processes and why you’re selecting this item or that. So, when it comes time to work on your own images and attempt similar processes, it is of no use.

Photoshop CS3

This book is great for beginers using Adobe Photoshop CS3. It takes you step by step through projects to get familiar with the tools and effects, it also gives ideas of how effects can be used for different projects. I may be too basic for advanced photoshop users.

Warning!!!

I have never received this book from Amazon even though they have already charged the money from my account hence I need to warn about buying books on Amazon!
Reason why I state this here is because it is impossible to get in contact with Amazon via mail.

Niels

Photoshop CS3

According to the seller this product was fully registerable. Thus far it has denied all attempts to register so I don’t know if it will continue to be useable or not. Not at all satisfied with the purchase.

great how-to guide

I used this book for my Photoshop class and it was extremely helpful and insightful!

Fantastic Self Study Program

I would say these are very similar to the Apple Pro series and I really found it (and the other Adobe books) very helpful in self teaching. I hope to actually attend an Adobe live class soon, but this was well worth the money!

Adobe Photoshop

This is a great book. It gives you detailed information on how to use the software. The step by step directions are great. I would recommend to anyone.

Frustrated and disappointed

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book

This book was for a Photoshop Class and I stopped using it after I found step-by-step instructional errors in Chapters 6 and 10. The instructor was happy was previous editions and didn’t realize the problems with this one. I wasted valuable time and effort trying to follow instructions that were inaccurate.

I ended up using Adobe Photoshop CS3 Professional Portfolio by Against the Clock publishers which had accurate step by step instructions as well as entire pages that gave more detailed information about the various functions of Photoshop (resampling, channels, distinguishing blending modes, layer styles in depth, curves, etc. etc.) It goes into depth on every photoshop tool and gave more info than most books I’ve seen since. *Adobe Photoshop CS3 Professional Portfolio* is one that a person could learn from as well as keep as an invaluable reference guide.

A class but not a manual

I reference this book as a suggested learning tool in another review, but it is not the kind of a book I like to use. The "Classroom in a Book" volumes are exactly that - lessons done a step at a time. If you are one of those people who don’t move at the pace of the slowest student, you may get frustrated with this technique.

I find this book to be chatty and rather unhelpful as a reference. One’s only choice as a user is to do the exercises one at a time in order. There are some benefits to that, but if you already know what you want to do, getting there is slow. That said, Photoshop is a huge piece of software and you have to start somewhere. At least this course gets the basics out of the way. As a first look at Photoshop, it is OK.

If you really want to understand Photoshop(after getting an understanding of the basics) look at Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor’s Guide to the Creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC, which gives seven hundred pages of specific how-to advice for photographers who are already in possession of the basic concepts. Don’t go there as a first step, though, because you will be lost unless you take a course like this one first.

The real problem after all is that Photoshop is just hard to learn because there are so many concepts and individual, often similar, tools. Also, there are competing approaches that are slightly different, but one is clearly better than the other in some situations. It takes some time to figure all that out, and no book is really going to get you there. You just have to get some experience.

PS CS 3 REVIEW

The classroom in a book series is a very user-friendly, self-paced resource for people learning PhotoShop for the first time!

It DOES teach important fundamentals.......

Photoshop Classroom in a Book (CiaB) does teach important fundamentals. But I’ve discovered that working through the book on my own just didn’t work well.

For example, I needed to move something in one of the lessons, but the move tool simply did not work. Working on my own, it would have been frustrating and "off-putting." But I am using Classroom in a Book as the textbook for a video imaging class at a local college, so when I can’t do the things I wanted to do in the book lesson, I am able to ask the professor.

Being able to get expert help when you run into a problem with a CiaB lesson makes all the difference in the world. I’ve never been able to get through the Illustrator CiaB by working through the book all on my own. Because I’ve had such a good experience using Photoshop CS3 CiaB as part of a class, I’m going to take another college class that uses Illustrator CS3 CiaB as the textbook.

In summary Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book will teach you valuable Pshop skills. But you’ll learn them more efficiently if you have expert help close at hand when you trip over something in a lesson.

Adobe Book

Fantastic user friendly text. Takes you through each step needed to render corrections to an image. Even easy to use for us computer phobics.