Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers

Foreword

by John Nack

Is Photoshop for photographers? And do photographers really need Photoshop? A couple of years ago, these questions might have seemed a little silly. No professional photographer would seriously consider foregoing Photoshop's image-manipulation power, whether to apply subtle color

corrections or to make radical image alterations. Now, however, new workflow-centric applications like Adobe Lightroom have come into the market. With these tools focusing purely on photographers’ needs, how relevant does Photoshop remain?

To me the situation is a bit like what I’ve found with photography: yes, you can start out and sometimes get by with a limited set of equipment, but the more you know, the more you value specialized tools that ...