Book description
Many designers and photographers own the entire suite of Adobe
creative products, but they manage to learn only one or two of the
applications really well. This new addition to the popular
Non-Designer’s books from best-selling authors Robin
WilliamsJohn Tollett uses a series
of individual exercises to teach image-editing tasks in Adobe
Photoshop CS5.5 specifically to designers, who need to enhance
their photos for use in brochures, advertising, Flickr, Facebook,
websites, and so on.
In this fun, full-color, straight-forward guide to
Photoshop CS5.5, you’ll learn:
Basic photo editing, such as how to smooth out wrinkles, remove blemishes, lose a little weight, clean up dust and scratches, brighten and sharpen the image, delete people, remove or add space in the middle of a photo, and more
How to further manipulate and enhance images with filters and effects
How to draw and paint with customized brushes, and how to colorize a black-and-white image
All about layers and how to take advantage of them
How and when to use paths, layer masks, and clipping masks to increase your editing capabilities
How to merge several photos into one panorama, use the Puppet Warp feature, remove lens distortion, and much more
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- 1. The Photoshop Interface
- 2. Simple Projects
- 3. Basic Technical Stuff
- 4. Select & Transform
- 5. All-Powerful Layers
- 6. Photoshop Type
- 7. Photoshop with a History
- 8. Adjustment Layers
- 9. Working with Transparency
- 10. Draw & Paint
- 11. Color Tools
- 12. Filters & Effects
- 13. Camera Raw
- 14. Puppet Warp
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Non-Designer’s Photoshop Book: Essential imaging techniques for design
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2011
- Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
- ISBN: 9780132732925
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