It seems that it's not just rugby that the Australians are good at-they also write damn good text books for photographic students, and when two of them get together, as is the case in this great book from Mark Galer and Phil Andrews, the impact is twice as good.
It offers a unique perspective in that it is the first one with a structured learning approach to the fundamental skills required to work with Photoshop.
It also sets clear aims and objectives to become proficient in this medium-something that which you can easily convert to coursework for photographic students as the book includes student assignments to put theoretical knowledge into a creative context.
This book follows the path of Mark Galer's other titles with activities taken from actual student experiences to offer an in-depth coverage of the software for educational teaching and study.
We recommend this book for learning Photoshop CS3 principally though because the text is written in an exceptionally user-friendly way. Learning outcomes (aims and objectives) make life easier for the academic and the text supports an independent learning approach, which makes the text highly suitable for flexible delivery.
Illustrative activities and assignments use student's imagery and the terminology is kept as simple as possible. There is even a website at www.photoshopessentialskills.com, as a course guide with video tutorials to accompany the book.
Students can also see how they can apply the essential skills outside of the context of the individual activity by observing the work in the student galleries.
Contents in this 384 page book include: The Digital darkroom; Basics; Capture enhance; Digital printing; Layers; Blend; Selections; Retouching; Special effects; Filters; Presets from layer styles to curves, shapes, and gradients.
If you are only going to buy one book on Photoshop CS3 for teaching-this is it.
Product code: 20203 Price £18.99
(now includes DVD with 8 hrs of tutorials and working images)
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