Need advice on a good basic Photoshop book
Nov 14, 2018 12:28:45 #
My husband and I have been trying to learn Photoshop by watching various YouTube videos which has, for me, been a very frustrating and inefficient experience. What I need is a good instructional book (paper, not Kindle). We have Photoshop CC 2019 - any suggestions would be much appreciated!
Nov 14, 2018 12:33:53 #
No book is prfect, and you have lots of choices. Try your local library first. through the library loas system, you can borrow books from maybe a dozen different libraries. If you find a book you like, buy it.
Otherwise, you could spend years watching various types of online instruction. Adobe has a lot through tv.adobe.
It looks like that was replaced with helpx.adobe.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/tutorials.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tv.adobe
Otherwise, you could spend years watching various types of online instruction. Adobe has a lot through tv.adobe.
It looks like that was replaced with helpx.adobe.
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/tutorials.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tv.adobe
Nov 14, 2018 12:36:26 #
SueScott wrote:
Sue, Consider this book:My husband and I have been trying to learn Photoshop by watching various YouTube videos which has, for me, been a very frustrating and inefficient experience. What I need is a good instructional book (paper, not Kindle). We have Photoshop CC 2019 - any suggestions would be much appreciated!
https://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Photoshop-Classroom-Book-release/dp/0134852486/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=
Nov 14, 2018 13:09:00 #
SAMS and Scott Kelby both had pretty good books out on PhotoShop. Not sure if they have been up dated.
Nov 14, 2018 13:12:09 #
Jerry, you beat me to it. I was just about to put down the same advise. 
Nov 14, 2018 13:16:30 #
SueScott wrote:
My husband and I have been trying to learn Photoshop by watching various YouTube videos which has, for me, been a very frustrating and inefficient experience. What I need is a good instructional book (paper, not Kindle). We have Photoshop CC 2019 - any suggestions would be much appreciated!
Scott Kelby's Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers.
Nov 14, 2018 13:42:17 #
As others have suggested, Scott Kelby has good info. If you want to spend the money you can sign up for the Kelby One classes which are excellent. Not limited to PS but also a lot of photo tips. They are go into great depth and are lesson by lesson. Not sure what the current cost is but only spend the money if you have time to sit and go through all of them.
Nov 14, 2018 17:56:28 #
SueScott wrote:
My husband and I have been trying to learn Photoshop by watching various YouTube videos which has, for me, been a very frustrating and inefficient experience. What I need is a good instructional book (paper, not Kindle). We have Photoshop CC 2019 - any suggestions would be much appreciated!
It's not easy. There is so much you can do in PS, and so many ways to do it. An out of the box suggestion is to join a local photo club. Another is to visit https://www.retouchpro.com/ which will give you some outstanding ways to edit an image, or even restore a photograph - even if you are not into photo restoration or fashion-industry-quality retouching, the skills learned are completely transferrable and worth the effort.
Nov 14, 2018 18:05:32 #
SueScott wrote:
My husband and I have been trying to learn Photoshop by watching various YouTube videos which has, for me, been a very frustrating and inefficient experience. What I need is a good instructional book (paper, not Kindle). We have Photoshop CC 2019 - any suggestions would be much appreciated!
I like the Photoshop Bible, (be warned, it is quite big, over 1000 pages), but it is written rather simple and covers pretty much every aspect of the program and does include a few tutorials as well!
Nov 14, 2018 18:13:52 #
PixelStan77 wrote:
I have that book.
It’s great!
Nov 14, 2018 21:29:13 #
Thanks for all your great suggestions! We just ordered the Adobe Photoshop Classroom Book - hopefully that, along with supplemental videos will bring us up to speed.
Nov 15, 2018 06:11:35 #
SueScott wrote:
My husband and I have been trying to learn Photoshop by watching various YouTube videos which has, for me, been a very frustrating and inefficient experience. What I need is a good instructional book (paper, not Kindle). We have Photoshop CC 2019 - any suggestions would be much appreciated!
Back in my book buying days I had a routine that worked pretty well. I'd go to Barnes & Noble, pick out 2 or 3 (or 4) books, get a large coffee and find a table or nice couch. Then I had a few hypothetical questions in mind, e.g. "How do I use 'content-aware scale'?", or "How do I add a 'stroke?", or "What's the best way resize and print a photo?". Compare the answers in the books and decide which works best for you.
Happy hunting!
Nov 15, 2018 07:52:56 #
My go-to author for anything Photoshop or Lightroom is Martin Evening. He is quite thorough and detailed with a writing style that is easy to read but makes no attempts to be humorous like Kelby does, which I personally find annoying and disruptive when trying to learn.
Nov 15, 2018 08:42:20 #
SueScott wrote:
I saw you already ordered a book. Just thought I would throw in another that I didn't see anyone mention - Photoshop CC, The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider. I used her book back when I had CS5 and found it very useful and user friendly.My husband and I have been trying to learn Photoshop by watching various YouTube videos which has, for me, been a very frustrating and inefficient experience. What I need is a good instructional book (paper, not Kindle). We have Photoshop CC 2019 - any suggestions would be much appreciated!
Nov 15, 2018 09:05:17 #
Scott Kelby writes great Photoshop books. He has a book specific to Photoshop CC and his books on Photoshop Elements actually are usable with PS. Most of the same actions for Elements apply to PS. The elements books are great because they address specific actions you might want to take (paste in a person to a scene, clone out an object, etc) and you can just tab the book to get directly to what you need. I think the book on PS CC is similar. Go to your local book store and look through the Computer section (for some reason photography is buried in there).
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