"If you're using Photoshop 6 to earn a living, this comprehensive and well thought-out book clearly explains the arcane concepts in this powerful new upgrade. With its emphasis on production techniques, including color management, its set-by-step instructions for implementing them, and a thorough understanding of how conventional methods translate into today's digital production, this book will make its readers/users more productive and in the end, their time more profitable."
--Suzanne Thomas
Desktop Connections, 6/2001
"This guide is a "back-to-basics" look at Photoshop aimed at one goal--turning good scans into great end-use images."
PC Photo, July/August 2001
Ron Sheppard, Editor
"Industrial-strength, indeed--this book is strong enough to use as a surfboard. It's tough on the core, everyday tasks that artists and designers face, like how to handle color correction, quality scanning techniques, prepress issues, selection techniques and a whole lot more. The chapter on manipulating image tone is a must-read. With over 700 pages, it may not be your first choice when you're soaking up rays on the beach, but it may well be the first book you reach for when working in the program."
--Derek Pell
Dingbat Magazine, 6/2001
David Blatner and Bruce Fraser's Real World Photoshop 6 is without peer in the world of Photoshop bookks. In it, you'll find not only the absolute best approaches for getting world-class images, you'll also find crystal-clear explanations of why they work, presented in a friendly, humorous way that makes you WANT to read the book.
This book will absolutely, positively, save you far more than it costs, and you will feel much better when you use Photoshop.
--Jay Nelson
Design Tools Monthly, 6/2001
Blatner and Fraser's mammoth volume delves deeply into the management and tweaking of colors and tones, among other image techniques.
--Dan Harmon
Lawyer's PC, 5/2001
