Synopses & Reviews
If you don’t know where to start in Photoshop and feel overwhelmed with the options, then this is the book for you. With highly visual step-by-step explanations, this concise guide gives you a solid grounding in using Photoshop to edit digital images and helps you develop a full understanding of the key tools and features of Photoshop CS2.
Brad Hinkel guides you through a simple image editing workflow to get you up and running fast. If you want solutions quickly and easy access to any basic step of the workflow, this guide provides the essential knowledge you need. Filled with step-by-step projects and covering all the key new features of Photoshop CS2: Camera RAW, Reduce Noise, Smart Sharpen and Spot Healing Brush.
* Understand the basics of Photoshop and learn the image editing skills you need with this simple, easy-to-use introduction
* Clear, concise color coverage - written for Photoshop CS2, but relevant for all versions
* Step-by-step techniques put image-editing into a practical workflow context
Review
A comprehensive introduction to the basics of image-editing using Adobe's best-selling Photoshop
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"Hinkel...has put together a handy guide to some of the key features of CS2. He has also created an excellent Web site that provides additional sections and images to supplement the book..." - Digital Photographer
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Photoshop
"This concise and accessible title is excellent for anyone thinking of upgrading to CS2, or those who have already made the leap...this is a well-structured book that is useful and easy to navigate through." - Photoshop Creative
Synopsis
Get to grips with Photoshop quickly with this highly visual, color guide! Brad Hinkel explains all the features you need to know, with an accessible introduction to the key tools and functions of Photoshop and, just as importantly, offering a comprehensive but simple workflow to help you successfully edit digital images.
But 'The Focal Easy Guide to Photoshop CS2' offers much more than a simple run down of the tools and features of this powerful software package - it offers solutions. You will learn how to avoid the pitfalls and problems which can slow down and frustrate new users, so you can get on with developing your skills and making the most of your images!
* Understand the basics of Photoshop and learn the image editing skills you need with this simple, easy-to-use introduction
* Clear, concise color coverage - written for Photoshop CS2, but relevant for all versions
* Step-by-step techniques put image-editing into a practical workflow context
About the Author
Brad Hinkel worked as a program manager for a very large software company in the Seattle area. He helped ship a number of important software products including Word, Mail, and Flight Simulator. He also worked for an Internet retailer in the mid-90’s. Brad has been teaching digital photography since 1999. He was largely responsible for starting the digital photography program at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography starting in 1999, and has taught several sections of every course at RMSP. He also created the complete digital photography program at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle starting in 2000, and created the entire digital curriculum for that school.
Founded the digital photography programs at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography and the Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, and has taught at RMSP. Author of Focal Easy Guide to Photoshop CS2.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Foundation; The Image Editing Workflow; Printing; Advanced Options; Images for the Web; Appendix