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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN num: 9780672330421
ISBN number: 0672330423
Label: Sams
Manufacturer: Sams
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Page Count: 552
Printing Date: November 13, 2008
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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe® Photoshop® CS4
Kate Binder
In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you’ll learn all the fundamental Photoshop CS4 skills you need to get great results–in digital photography, graphic design, painting, or anything else! Using this book’s easy, step-by-step approach, you’ll master Photoshop CS4’s revamped interface and powerful new shortcuts. You can also learn professional techniques for repairing damaged photos, creating great composites, black-and-white images, and web graphics, and a whole lot more!
Full-colour figures and clear step-by-step instructions visually show you how to use Photoshop.
Notes, Tips, and Cautions provide related information, advice, and warnings.
Q&A sections, quizzes, and exercises help you build and test your knowledge.
Learn how to…
- Master Photoshop CS4’s new tabbed interface, Application Frame, and Application Bar
- Personalize your workspace to work more efficiently
- Repair and retouch black-and-white and colour images, no matter what condition they’re in
- Make “spot fixes” with Photoshop CS4’s improved toning tools
- Achieve powerful artistry with Photoshop’s filters and effects
- Master digital painting with Photoshop’s paintbrushes and other tools
- Get your colors right, in both print and web applications
- Transform your images using tools ranging from Flip and Warp to Liquify
- Master professional-level features including layers, channels, and masks
- Create outstanding typographic special effects
- Prepare great web images for everything from online photo galleries to cellphones
- Save time and get better results with Photoshop CS4’s latest enhancements
Kate Binder is a design and graphics expert who works from her home in New Hampshire. She has written articles on graphics, publishing, and photography for magazines including Shutterbug, Publish, eDigitalPhoto, PEI, and Desktop Publishing houses Journal. Kate is also the author of several books, including iMac Portable Genius, Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 in 24 Hours, Easy Mac OS X Leopard, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Mac OS X, and Easy Adobe Photoshop 7.
Category: Graphics
Covers: Adobe® Photoshop® CS4
User Level: Beginning—Intermediate
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This is a great book to help any Photoshop user get a good understanding of what the program is capable of. I've been using Photoshop for a couple years now, but never really learned how to use all the tools. Now I feel much more capable of editing my pictures efficiently.
The book is organized wonderfully for helping a beginner warm up to the program, but still covers important topics (like masks and blending modes) that are important for seasoned users to have an understanding of. If used the way it was intended (read from start to finish, like a course textbook), any new Photoshop user will finish with useful experience with all the tools that will help them produce amazing results.
That said, this book covers only the features that are included in the Standard Edition of Photoshop. Some Extended Edition tools are mentioned, but are only introduced - not explained. Still, the Standard Edition tools are the ones used in most Photoshop settings that do not deal with video and 3D graphics. For anyone looking to use Photoshop as a photo-editing tool, this book covers all the information you need.
As far as content depth, it is impossible for a book to teach all the ways that the many tools can be used together. There are many examples and exercises for the reader to work on, but there is no way for every variation to be covered. As with any creative skill, more practice is always encouraged to give a working understanding of the many effects that are possible.
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