Salon - - How many books?

Doug Nelson · #1 07-12-2003, 04:50 PM

How many books about your editing software (Photoshop, PSP, etc.) do you own? Duplicates and version updates don't count. Title listing optional.

My count is 15.

Toad · #2 07-12-2003, 04:58 PM

None - but the resource center where I work has dozens.

T Paul · #3 07-12-2003, 05:16 PM

Oh don't ever take me into a bookstore and expect to leave fast. 17...does that make me a geek?

jeaniesa · #4 07-12-2003, 05:49 PM

15 that are Photoshop related.

Jeanie

Doug Nelson · #5 07-12-2003, 06:12 PM

T.:

No, biting the heads off live chickens makes you a geek

chris h · #6 07-12-2003, 06:20 PM

6 on Photoshop and about 4000 on other subjects. If only I had more bookshelves!

Doug Nelson · #7 07-12-2003, 06:24 PM

Bookshelves, particularly strong inexpensive bookshelves, are my Quixotic quest. I even tried mounting metal brackets directly into the wall studs and using solid wood shelving. This made very strong, very ugly shelving, that wasn't particularly inexpensive, either. But at least they're not fiberboard, which books crush like tissue.

T Paul · #8 07-12-2003, 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Doug Nelson
T.:

No, biting the heads off live chickens makes you a geek

No that would make me sick...literally and mentally

chris h · #9 07-13-2003, 02:41 AM

I just use industrial kit form stuff I'm not bothered about looks and a collapsed bookshelf means damaged books. You need good stuff, a 100 hardbacks can weigh 150lb so while we are at it think of new floorboards!!!

gland · #10 07-13-2003, 05:57 AM

Just 4 at the present time.

Bob Walden · #11 07-13-2003, 09:07 AM

I have 8 on PS7. Also 50 tapes, cd's, dvd's.

Bob

Kevin Connery · #12 07-13-2003, 09:06 PM

22 on the shelves, a handful out on loan (4-5), and more than a dozen I've thrown out or given away. (I've been playing with PS for a while now.) That's only counting Photoshop- or retouching-specific books, and excluding conference notes. Design, web, and photography ones would probably add a hundred more.

There's only 5 I recommend, and not all of them for everyone. (This is from a photographer's perspective, not a graphic artist or web designer.)

Katrin Eismann's Photoshop Restoration and Retouching, Real World Photoshop, Real World Color Management, Dan Margulis' Professional Photoshop, and Channel Chops. Most of the rest are filler, with a few specialty uses.

One DVD that came with something else, and one video that came with the NAPP membership.

jblann · #13 07-13-2003, 09:30 PM

Four. I would also add "The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers" to the list of "must haves" it does a great job of explaining how to fix "photographer mistakes"

BTW... I really like it here! I am already addicted and i have only been here about a day!