Vincent Versace's way to improve photographs

I bought this book last autumn while I was in Kansas City. The book is basically about how to improve images by using Vincent’s “lighting” technique in Photoshop.

Vincent Versace is an extraordinary person who has the ability to easily explain the way how to create outstanding results by simply using various lighting options in Photoshop.

When I quickly browsed over the finalized photographs I thought myself, well Vincent captured really an outstanding lighting situation. But it’s not – and he is explaining you the way how such a result can be achieved by simply “painting with light”!

This entire book is all about improving ordinary photographs; nothing else. It’s a “how-to” book and gives you detailed guidelines how to improve certain parts of your photographs by simply “painting with light” and he gives you an idea of why he is doing something and not just how he did it. By the way, it’s not about Photoshop it’s about LIGHT.

This book will definitely change your post-processing approach and it’s worth every penny.

Regards, Gerry

Season's Greetings

I wish you and your loved ones a blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year, good "light" and unforgettable photographs!

Warm greetings,

Gerry

PS: Please follow the link below to browse over my winter impressions.

http://www.gerrypacher.ch/winter.html

Scott Kelby's 7-Point System

Scott Kelby, the world's #1 Photoshop author, published a new book for digital photographer. This new book, so called "7-Point System" was advertised as a new breathtaking and revolutionary approach how all the post processing steps can be managed in an easy, structured and successfully way.

Well, I wouldn't call this book revolutionary but rather cookbook a la betty bossi.

Scott tried to structure all the various tasks into a simple story-line - the 7-Point System. And he has managed it in a successful way.

I would say that the target audience is the Sunday-Morning Photographer. I believe they will most benefit from it. But you shouldn't be a Photoshop
CS3 beginner.

This is definitively a book for most of us who want to learn how to use Photoshop to get the best out of your photographs.

Regards, Gerry