Alaskan Apple Users Group Blog

Make no mistake, Philip Andrews’ Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 For Photographers is a book for photographers. The book has a short digital photography basics section at the beginning, but it is by-and-large written for people who already have a good grasp on photography. There’s no explanation of shutter-speed, f-stop, and ISO. This isn’t one of the “_____ For Dummies” books, it’s a book for people who already know a thing or two. This is purely about Adobe Elements 8.

How to Cheat photoshop in CS4 is a great reference book that includes a DVD. The book is very usable as a stand alone, without having to refer to the great additional materials which include practice sessions. The book introduction reinforced my need to chink my CS4 foundations by really knowing how to use the basics.

Product Review

Product: Spyder3Studio SR

Company: Datacolor, Inc.
Contact: Email
Price: $599, with discounts at various sites
Pros: Very easy to use, excellent documentation; generates excellent profiles and calibration; tech support is by email but is excellent.
Cons: Note that this is actually an issue with Apple’s hardware design: can only be used effectively with the very latest iMacs, [...]