I have subscribed for the past year to Total Digital Photography for
general interest articles on available kit as well as the technique
articles which enhance my use of Photoshop. A year ago it was the best
I could find (or at least suited me best) but now that they have changed
the team the magazine is nothing like as good and so I am not going to
renew my subscription.
What magazines (probably dedicated to digital) do people consider to be
best for Photoshop technique with a bit of general photography technique
which I need as well?
Thanks
Andy
Liz - 12 Nov 2004 09:57 GMT
> I have subscribed for the past year to Total Digital Photography for
> general interest articles on available kit as well as the technique
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> best for Photoshop technique with a bit of general photography technique
> which I need as well?
Try these:
Digital Photo (the Emap one)
Any of the Digital Arts series featuring Photoshop (Future publishing)
Photoshop User (six issues a year; quite hard to get - I get it in Borders
in Glasgow)
...to see which suits what you like to do/aspire to do.
To be honest, you're better off with a book, for which I recommend:
The Photoshop CS book for Digital Photographers (Scott Kelby)
(don't let Digital Photographers put you off.
What he writes works just as well with scans.)
Photoshop Wow! (Linea Dayton & Jack Davis)
and, more technical, Photoshop CS Studio Techniques (Ben Willmore)
Try to see the latter first: it's huge and expensive (my best price was from
amazon.*com*) and may not be what you need/want. Brilliant, though.
Of course, I'm assuming you have Photoshop Classroom in a Book.
Even if you're not a beginner you'll pick up all sorts of things by going
through this book a lesson at a time from chapter one.
CIAB is my number one recommendation.
Slainte
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Tony Parkinson - 13 Nov 2004 09:48 GMT
> What magazines (probably dedicated to digital) do people consider to be
> best for Photoshop technique with a bit of general photography technique
> which I need as well?
I used to consider Digital Photo to be the best "digital" magazine out
there, but since the departure of it's original editor Peter Bargh to set up
his own free web based magazine at http://www.ephotozine.com I've noticed a
marked decline, hastened by the departure to Arching Publishing of Will
Chewing, in the magazine alongside it's sister mag Practical Photography and
the rest of EMAP's magazines. For me it's not so much about the content of
the magazines, but rather the style of the magazines which now seems to
contain soundbites and lavatorial humour aimed squarely at the FHM/Loaded
reader demographic.
To me, now, the digital photography magazines seem to keep repeating
themselves with similar tutorial appearing in a different mag each month and
then repeating the cycle over again. But, then again, I suppose there are
only so many techniques they can cover. Having said that I did purchase
this month's Digital Photographer as a good friend of mine (and occasional
poster on this NG) was published there together with several other members
of my former Camera Club.
I've also found that there are several non-photographic magazines out there
that also cover Photoshop, however, those seem to be aimed more towards the
Graphics Designer/Website Author rather than the Photographer
Personally, I'd look for a good book rather than a magazine subscription.
The best 2 I have found are :-
Photoshop 7 Professional Photographic Techniques (published by Friends of
ED, ISBN 1-903450-90-x)
Photoshop 7 for Photographers (be Martin Evening, also available in
Photoshop 5, 6 & CS flavours)

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David Kilpatrick - 13 Nov 2004 12:29 GMT
For Photoshop techniques, Digital Photographer (the Highbury/Paragon
title). As a publisher I know roughly what goes into different magazines
and where the contents may be sourced from, and which ones use freebie
stuff or advertorials all the time, and DP is about the best right now
for ploughing its own furrow and commissioning original material. The CD
provided is also of good quality, and overall the mag is good value.
The EMAP and Archant mags have good material spoiled by amazing flashes
of editorial absence - articles from hired writers who clearly don't
know anything about the subject, which slip through the sub-editing
process thanks to designers or subs who also know nothing about the
subject. Highbury's magazine is intensively designed and edited in a
different way (less about 'surface' and more about depth) with the
result that fewer of these real boo-boos end up in the mag.
All of them have FAR fewer typos than my mags and I've always sold on
the basis that discerning readers can get extra value by counting the
typos...
We don't do Photoshop tutorial stuff very often mainly because with a
readership still probably 50/50 traditional/digital, I have found that
step-by-step Photopshop examples need loads of space, and alienate
non-yet-digital readers.
DK
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> general interest articles on available kit as well as the technique
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> Andy

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Rick - 13 Nov 2004 16:02 GMT
> What magazines (probably dedicated to digital) do people consider to be
> best for Photoshop technique with a bit of general photography technique
> which I need as well?
I would get a book for the editing & photoshop stuff (if you really must,
there are stacks of websites with great tutorials & techniques), as for a
mag, I still get AP

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Odie Ferrous - 22 Nov 2004 08:41 GMT
> I have subscribed for the past year to Total Digital Photography for
> general interest articles on available kit as well as the technique
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> Andy
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