Review
“…you’ll find an amazing collection of tips…the tome is light and friendly enough that learning is never a struggle…” (Digital Creative Arts)

“…you can’t argue with the price…you’ll never need to invest in another Photoshop CS reference book again…” (Digital Photography Made Easy, March 2004)


Review
“…you’ll find an amazing collection of tips…the tome is light and friendly enough that learning is never a struggle…” (Digital Creative Arts)

“…you can’t argue with the price…you’ll never need to invest in another Photoshop CS reference book again…” (Digital Photography Made Easy, March 2004)


Book Description
* The complete For Dummies Photoshop resource-ten minibooks with more than 800 pages of tips, techniques, and plain-English explanations
* Covers Photoshop fundamentals, image essentials, selections, painting, drawing and typing, working with layers, channels and masks, filters and distortions, retouching and restoration, Photoshop and the Web, and Photoshop and print
* Explains how to create and manage layers, use channels and masks, make corrections with filters, fix flaws and imperfections, and much more
* Updated and revised throughout for Photoshop "X," which Adobe expects to release in Fall 2003
* Features sixteen pages of full-color examples
* Written by veteran For Dummies author Barbara Obermeier, a leading design and graphics author


Book Info
Text includes ten quick-references on Photoshop CS, including: Photoshop Fundamentals, Image Essentials, Selections, and more. Softcover.


From the Back Cover
10 books in 1 – plus 16 pages of full-color examples!

Your one-stop guide to using all the cool features of Photoshop CS

You know you can do amazing things with Photoshop CS, but wow – where do you start? One feature at a time, with this handy reference guide! Ten easy-to-follow minibooks show you how to set up Photoshop and use each tool, while special sections help you combine tools and effects to achieve spectacular results.

The Dummies Way Coverage of the essentials and beyond Explanations in plain English "Get in, get out" information Thumbtabs and other navigation aids Tear-out cheat sheet A dash of humor and fun

Discover how to: Correct and enhance colors Give your subjects a mini-makeover Create and work with paths Master selection techniques Work with layers, channels, and masks Optimize Web graphics


About the Author
Barbara Obermeier (Ventura, CA) is principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in California. The author of Photoshop 7 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies and Adobe Master Class: Illustrator Illuminated (Peachpit) and co-author of several Dummies books including Photoshop 7 For Dummies, Illustrator 10 For Dummies, and CorelDRAW 9 For Dummies. She has contributed as a writer, technical editor, or layout designer for 16 books. Barb also teaches computer graphics at Ventura College and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

FROM OUR EDITORS

The Barnes & Noble Review
Photoshop CS is enormous. It can be very difficult to know where to start -- or where to go next. Maybe you￯﾿ﾽd like an easy, accessible guide to Photoshop CS, one that￯﾿ﾽs especially well organized, so it￯﾿ﾽs simple to find the answer you need right this minute. Maybe you￯﾿ﾽd like a book that￯﾿ﾽs readable enough so you￯﾿ﾽll use it to explore corners of Photoshop you￯﾿ﾽve never worked with. Either way, Photoshop CS All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies delivers the goods.

Barbara Obermeier owns her own graphic design studio, so she knows what it￯﾿ﾽs like to need answers on deadline. She also teaches computer graphics at Ventura College and UC Santa Barbara, so she￯﾿ﾽs learned exactly how to ￯﾿ﾽun-befuddle￯﾿ﾽ Photoshop novices. (Maybe that￯﾿ﾽs why the legendary Deke McClelland turned to her when he needed a coauthor for his Photoshop for Dummies books.)

In Photoshop CS All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies, Obermeier organizes Photoshop into ten ￯﾿ﾽmini-books.￯﾿ﾽ In Book 1, Photoshop Fundamentals, you￯﾿ﾽll get thoroughly comfortable with Photoshop CS￯﾿ﾽs challenging user interface. Image Essentials covers the ￯﾿ﾽnitpicky but critical￯﾿ﾽ details of image size, resolution, pixel dimension, image mode, file format, cropping, and more. (There￯﾿ﾽs even a little basic color theory, in case you missed that in college.)

There￯﾿ﾽs a full mini-book on Selections, in which Obermeier covers every Photoshop CS selection tool -- as well as the ￯﾿ﾽpowerful, albeit sometimes unruly￯﾿ﾽ Pen tool and Paths palette. She then turns to painting, drawing, and typing, covering everything from vector shapes to filling and stroking, creating type to masking, shaping, and warping it.

In her mini-book on layers, Obermeier walks you through creating a multilayered composite image and offers practical guidance on managing layers for maximum efficiency (including a full chapter on layer styles and clipping groups).

You￯﾿ﾽll find mini-books on channels and masks, and on retouching/restoration -- as well as detailed coverage of filters and distortions. The latter includes a look at Photoshop CS￯﾿ﾽs handy new Filter Gallery, which consolidates multiple categories of filters into one editing window. (About time!)

Last but not least: separate mini-books on Photoshop for the Web, and for print. (Especially helpful, the Print book￯﾿ﾽs coverage of contact sheets, picture packages, and Photoshop CS￯﾿ﾽ new Photomerge and PDF Presentations features.)

As Obermeier observes, ￯﾿ﾽSometimes, knowing how to use a tool doesn￯﾿ﾽt necessarily mean that you know what to do with it.￯﾿ﾽ That￯﾿ﾽs where this book￯﾿ﾽs ￯﾿ﾽPutting It Together￯﾿ﾽ sections come in. So you￯﾿ﾽll find step-by-step procedures that pull together all the features you need to perform a wide range of essential tasks.

For instance: making a photo gradually fade from color to grayscale. Masking hair or fur. Creating that angelic ￯﾿ﾽglow￯﾿ﾽ around your subjects￯﾿ﾽ heads. Sprucing up scanned halftones. Making your own background textures. Creating snow, rain, and wet effects. Correcting tinted, faded photos, cleaning up line art scans...or, conversely, making new photos look old. Fixing underexposed foregrounds in photos -- or resurfacing wrinkles. With all these projects, this book￯﾿ﾽs as practical as it is readable. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

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