Photoshop Channel Chops First Edition

This book really got started on using the individual channels for finding detail in my photos! Great book!

hi,I have been reading books by bert monroy and he shows the old way of making the software work. but he was working with photoshop before it became photoshop. layers are good,great & fast , but you need to know how the base software works to get outstanding pictures. So these book are not old , but only old in time.if you need help in photoshop then buy these books and you will not be sorry for it.

One of three books every serious Photoshop user should own. The other two are Professional Photoshop and Photoshop LAB Color, both by Dan Margulis. These are books that teach you the hows and whys of color correction and masking using channels. These are advance books and not quick reads. They certainly require a significant time investment but the time is well spent.

Photoshop might have gone through many versions and incarnations, but the fundamentals of the application and color theory have not changed. This book is as useful and valuable as it was when it was first published.

good book; good condition

Not new but the information is still current. A must for anyone that wants to realy know how Photoshop works and how to work in Photoshop rather than just using plug and play.

Classic, underground book still worth getting. This was worth hundreds of dollars for a while.

this book is the the authority on channel ops. don't be put off because it's based on an older version of photshop. i have cs3 and i can following the examples with no problems.

You are probably an intermediate user of Photoshop, otherwise you wouldn't have found your way to this book. (which is quite sad actually).You have probably gone thru the usual 'Photoshop Bible', 'Photoshop Wow' and quick and trick literature.You may be feeling after reading the top heap that you have managed to find out how to create a desired look, but with the nagging feeling that you don't really understand how it comes that three gray channels make up a color image? Or what that darn 'calculations' or 'apply image' do and why they are so usefull.Ever read a decent manual to 'calculations' (may'be you even never heard of it or never use it) or 'apply image'. I guess not.Actually it should be the other way around: if you truly understand how channels make up an image, this really opens the way to professional enhancement of an image.And this is exactly what this book is about: how to use knowledge of channels and alphachannels (masks) to get to the core of every image out there.Although this is a book about a complex subject, you'll never get a headache, and all the techniques which flow out of the theory are laid out in a very understandable language. And they are very usefull for image compositing, which makes up a great part of image enhancement.You can use this book to create the masks you want and target the areas of an image which need enhancement, and ever better, you'll feel that you know really understand Photoshop.It is simply a book which belongs on the shelf of every aspiring Photoshop user.Although, the book is now quite old, it beats most of the newer books when it comes to decent literature and using Photoshop on a professional level.The downside: this is a book which is aimed almost solely on RGB channels techniques. True, other colormodes consist of channels as well, but the way they relate to each other can be hugely different to the RGB layout of channels.Never the less, a classic, even so many years after date in print: it only shows that this book doesn't become dated when certain effects go out of fashion, it is the guide which lays at the very core of Photoshop.

I have read a good few books on Photoshop Channels,this is the oldest and the Best without doubt,to Quote Neil Barstow "theres no going back after reading this book". It was written around the time of Photoshop 4, but , the information contained within is the very best and from the 3 guys who were there at the conception of Photoshop,its not cheap, but it should be on your bookshelf if your serious about Photoshop Channels.

Probably one of the clearest Photoshop books you can read. Probably one of the most "ripped off" Photoshop books out of print. A primary source for anyone wishing to write their own Photoshop "Tips & Techniques" book. I recommend it in spades.