Book description
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.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Foundation
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Chapter 3: The Image Editing Workflow
- The Workflow Outline
- Workflow Stage Summaries
- Stage 1: Organizing the Images
- Stage 2A: Opening Image Files
- Stage 2B: Processing RAW Images
- Stage 3: Image Clean-Up
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Stage 4: Perform Global Adjustments
- Adjustments Tasks and Adjustment Tools
- Order of Adjustments
- Adjustment Layers
- Black and White Point Adjustment (Levels Tool)
- Adjusting Image Brightness (Levels Tool)
- Adjusting Image Contrast (Curves Tool)
- Adjusting Shadows/Highlights (Curves Tool)
- Color Balance (Color Balance Tool)
- Edit Colors (Hue/Saturation Tool)
- The Success of Basic Adjustments
- Stage 5: Perform Local Adjustments
- Chapter 4: Printing
- Chapter 5: Advanced Options
- Chapter 6: Images for the Web
- Appendix
- Index
- Outline of the Image Editing Workflow
Product information
- Title: Focal Easy Guide to Photoshop CS2
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2005
- Publisher(s): Focal Press
- ISBN: 9781136106217
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