Book description
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.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- How this book came about
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Downloadable images*
- Chapters at a glance
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Photoshop Interface
- Chapter 2. Color Management
- Chapter 3. Acquire, Create, Save
- Chapter 4. Bridge
- Chapter 5. Workspaces
- Chapter 6. Pixel Basics
- Chapter 7. Layer Basics
- Chapter 8. Select
- Chapter 9. Combine Images
- Chapter 10. History
- Chapter 11. Tonal Adjustments
- Chapter 12. Colors & Blending Modes
- Chapter 13. Color Adjustments
- Chapter 14. Brushes
- Chapter 15. Camera Raw
- Chapter 16. Exposure
- Chapter 17. Refocus
- Chapter 18. Retouch
- Chapter 19. More Layers
- Chapter 20. Layer Effects
- Chapter 21. Filters
- Chapter 22. Type
- Chapter 23. Gradients
- Chapter 24. Presentation
- Chapter 25. Preferences & Presets
- Chapter 26. Print
- Chapter 27. Export
- Index
- Photography Credits
- Media
Product information
- Title: Photoshop CS3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2007
- Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
- ISBN: None
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