Synopses & Reviews
This Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to create great-looking images with Photoshop. Best-selling authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas take readers step by step through all of today's Photoshop essentials: from importing digital photos through basic color manipulation and image correction to painting, masking, using filters, and more. Hot topics like working with Camera Raw, using the improved Photomerge command (that aligns and blends layers automatically) to stitch together images, making selections using the new Quick Selection tool and Refine Edge feature, and Smart Filters are all covered.
Both beginning users, who want a thorough introduction to the topic, and more advanced users, who are looking for a handy reference, will find what they need here. In this edition, using a fresh new design and now illustrated in full color, the authors have streamlined the text by focusing on the most efficient means of accomplishing a task, rather than explaining all possible methods. By the end of the book, users will have a solid foundation for working in Photoshop CS3. Additional intermediate topics can be found in the author's follow-on book: Photoshop CS3: Visual QuickPro Guide.
Book News Annotation:
In a "cookbook" approach that responds to reader requests for full
color images and downloadable files, the authors of Visual QuickStart
guides to Illustrator and QuarkXPress explain and illustrate the
features of the latest version of the popular Photoshop image editing
software. Starting with the basics of digital photography and the
interface for both Windows and Mac OS platforms, they proceed to how
to use Photoshop's various tools, preferences, and effects.
Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
About the Author
In addition to this book, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas have also written, designed, and illustrated Visual QuickStart Guides to Adobe Illustrator and QuarkXPress. Their books have been translated into 12 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide. They have also taught at Pratt Manhattan, the Cooper Union School of Art, the New School Computer Instruction Center, and the Parsons School of Design.
Table of Contents
01. PHOTOSHOP INTERFACE
02. PHOTOSHOP COLOR
03. ACQUIRE, CREATE, SAVE
04. BRIDGE
05. WORKSPACES
06. PIXEL BASICS
07. LAYER BASICS
08. SELECT
09. COMBINE IMAGES
10. HISTORY
11. TONAL ADJUSTMENTS
12. COLORS and BLEND MODES
13. COLOR ADJUSTMENTS
14. BRUSHES
15. CAMERA RAW
16. EXPOSURE
17. REFOCUS
18. RETOUCH
19. MORE LAYERS
20. LAYER EFFECTS
21. FILTERS
22. TYPE
23. GRADIENTS
24. PRESENTATION
25. PREFERENCES and PRESETS
26. PRINT
27. EXPORT
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