Scott Kelby photoshop books

[Ross]

Hi,

Has anyone compared Scott Keby's two books "photoshop for digital photographers" and "photoshop CS for digital photographers"? Are there significant differences in content, apart from the obvious ofcovering shadows and highlights?

My partner's got the photoshop one and we found it very useful, but I'm wondering if the Cs one will just cover the same ground?

Ross

[Scottes]

I've got the CS one. You'll be missing a few things specific to CS - like how to use the RAW converter if that's not covered in the 7.0 book you have. Other than that I'd *guess* that you'd be missing very little - however the very little you'll be missing is all the stuff that Adobe added to CS for digital photographers. So that *could* make it worthwhile if you had the cash to spare.

But I'd go out and get a different book on CS for digital photography. So now you'll get some different stuff covered, plus some of the same things you already have but with a different viewpoint, plus catch up on all the CS stuff.

For a cheap way out it might be easy to check out the new features list for CS and find some web stuff that specifically covers those areas. (But I like books myself.)

[Ross]

Hmmm... thanks for that! I'm a book freak myself :) The original one doesn't cover the raw converter, so it might be tempting - I must admit we've pretty much worked out higlights and shadows, and use it lots!

A bit more thinking to do, obviously...

Ross

[gkas]

Well, I just browsed at the CS version and I noticed at least a few new entries. I immediately orderd a copy from Amazon for $27. I have used the earlier PS7 version so much that it is very shopworn. It's still the first book I turn to when I have a problem. I figured even a few good tidbits of this quality would be worth another $27.

[Vegas Poboy]

I have both & to me theres not much difference between the two. With the exception of the file browser.