By Jed Clampett

June 1, 2001

This highly valuable guide is not for the weak of heart. It is definitely a more advanced book packed with delicious details and extensive instructions. It is for serious professional photographers and digital artists who need to produce expert imagery, an in-depth course for users that want to produce exceptional images.

Truly a visual treat, even the table of contents is full of stunning images. It opens with the new features of Photoshop 6 and a great list of shortcut keys new to Photoshop 6 for both the Mac and Windows. 

Each of the well-structured hands-on chapters has a folder included on the CD-ROM. You will find the author's intermediary and final versions of the images for each exercise. You'll be able to master the relationship between adjustment layers, levels and curves.

Photoshop 6 Artistry is set up classroom style. Meaning you learn step by step, not just the concept or idea, but actually how to do it yourself. Take it apart and do it again. I love this style of learning! And remember all the images needed are included on the CD.

Get ready to learn at your full potential! Set your preferences, calibrate, and navigate Photoshop 6 and use actions, file formats and all the tools. You'll use color selections, masks, layers, layer masks and adjustment layers. All the new Photoshop 6 features including color management and calibration of your monitors, scanners and printers. Making a Master Image of your digital images is discussed for managing your digital images. This Master Image can then be developed within a known color space which you can convert using Photoshop and ICC profiles for each of your color inkjet, color laser, or dye-sub printers as well as color transparency output or compressed images for your Web sites and more.

This version of Photoshop Artistry includes new techniques that the authors have discovered since version 5. The examples in this version have been improved to take full advantage of Photoshop 6 new features. There are plenty of new examples in this version as well.

Photoshop 6 Artistry gets a high recommendation for serious photographers and digital artists alike. For the intermediate and advanced user, it is clear, concise and fully illustrated. You can't go wrong with this one plus there is plenty of new stuff included so even if you have version 5 or 5.5 of Photoshop Artistry, you'll want to add this one to your library as well.

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