Photoshop CS3 Book Recommendation
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I'm a Product Manager and I use PS CS3 on a daily basis to create concept mock-ups based on our current products before the graphics department get their hands on things.
Although I can do pretty much everything I need at this stage, I'd like to learn a lot more.
What books can you recommend as there seem to be a lot around on Amazon!! Dummies guides are usually a good place to start but I've already got the basics and like I said I'm dealing with product mock-ups and not photography.....
Cheers,
BB
I'm a Product Manager and I use PS CS3 on a daily basis to create concept mock-ups based on our current products before the graphics department get their hands on things.
Although I can do pretty much everything I need at this stage, I'd like to learn a lot more.
What books can you recommend as there seem to be a lot around on Amazon!! Dummies guides are usually a good place to start but I've already got the basics and like I said I'm dealing with product mock-ups and not photography.....
Cheers,
BB
Landlord said:
Isn't Adobe Illustrator used more for this kind of thing - hence Photoshop books are more about photography?
Just a guess, like.
I'm not creating the mock-ups from scratch. I usually adapt our current products to create new ones and design concepts, etc......Just a guess, like.
As such PS is better for this than Illustrator (otherwise please correct me if I'm wrong....
)this might come in handy at some point http://www.tutorialized.com/
The book you need is: How To Cheat In Photoshop by Steve Caplin - an absolute bible when it comes to tinkering with existing images, and excellent step-by-step guides to everything: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Cheat-Photoshop-CS3-Ph...
The definitive Photoshop book is by Martin Evening, but is heavy in every way and probably worth getting if Caplin is not enough:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adobe-Photoshop-CS3-Photog...
Found this on Amazon, but never read it so can't comment:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Photoshop-Illustr...
The definitive Photoshop book is by Martin Evening, but is heavy in every way and probably worth getting if Caplin is not enough:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adobe-Photoshop-CS3-Photog...
Found this on Amazon, but never read it so can't comment:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Photoshop-Illustr...
PW said:
beanbag said:
I'm a Product Manager and I use PS CS3 on a daily basis to create concept mock-ups based on our current products before the graphics department get their hands on things.
That's a bit vague as to exactly what you are doing, so this might be wide of the mark.The Gnomon DVDs are normally quite good - even if they aren't specifically related to what you are doing you'll probably pick up some useful tips on how to use tools, workflow etc
Gnomon Photoshop
There are some others that aren't on that list, so you might want to have a browse through
Maybe something like this one?
Industrial Design Rendering
I don't know of any books for this sort of thing though.
I did find this, but I have no idea what it is like
http://www.creativephotoshopthebook.com/main.html
Perhaps my description was a little vague. I'm a Product Manager for an internet company designing new products so I work heavily with GUI design, usability and development.
I use PS CS3 to create mock-ups for the new products in the conceptual phase, however our graphics guys are very slow so I usually end up creating all the prototype graphics myself for the developers.
I'd just like to learn how to use CS3 more efficiently and productively.
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