Tim Cooper, Technical Editor and Professional Photographer/Educator 2004
Colin has a great sense of creativity lacking in other Photoshop books. His background as a graphic designer seeps through...


Book Description
Transform Your Digital Photos with the Power of Photoshop CS! If you’ve jumped into the digital realm, it’s time to learn how to enhance, correct, and manipulate your photos. Photoshop CS for Digital Photographers teaches you how to take your images into Photoshop and turn them into masterpieces. Photoshop CS is jam-packed with new features designed especially for digital photographers. Using Photoshop CS is essentially like having your own digital darkroom right on your desktop, which includes all the tools you need to achieve professional quality results. To help you master these tools, Photoshop CS for Digital Photographers teaches you professional techniques to overcome the many challenges presented by digital photography. By using these techniques, you’ll be able to produce professional-quality results, and you’ll establish an efficient workflow. Everything from the basics of organizing pictures and removing blemishes, to adding special effects is taught through practical tutorials and projects. Some of the topics include creative cropping, color and brightness correction, color shifting variations, removing wrinkles and red eye, nose reduction and eye enlargement, and framing techniques. In addition, special effects that teach how to turn your photos into paintings or change the time from day to night are also provided. With the techniques and skills taught throughout the book, you’ll learn how to manipulate your digital photos into truly customized and personalized images, and you’ll master many of the powerful features of Photoshop CS. This no-nonsense, easy-to-read, full color guide is the one resource digital photographers need! KEY FEATURES: * Provides a masterful blend of theory and hands-on tutorials for easy learning * Introduces each topic in a real-world workflow that is easy to apply to your own projects * Includes stand-alone sections that allow reading from cover to cover or browsing by particular technique * Illustrates examples with eye-catching photos and a beautiful color design throughout * Provides plain English explanations of techniques, so the reader is not just "following blindly" On the CD! * IMAGES: Image files used in the tutorials; Final Photo Gallery VIDEOS; Five Photoshop training video clips on Special Effects and Digital Photography Techniques * DEMOS (Mac and PC): Adobe Photoshop CS; Alienskin Software Eye Candy 4000, Image Doctor™, and Xenofex 2; Andromeda Lens Doc, Varifocus, and Scatterlight Lenses; Auto FX Photo/Graphic Edges 6.0 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS WINDOWS: Intel® Pentium® III or 4 Processor, Microsoft ® Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 3 or Windows XP, 192MB of RAM (256MB recommended), 280MB of available hard disk space, color monitor with 16-bit color or greater video card, 800x600 or greater monitor resolution, CD-ROM drive, internet connection. MACINTOSH: PowerPC® G3, G4, or G5 processor, Mac OS X v. 10.2 through v. 10.3, 192MB of RAM (256MB recommended) 320MB of available hard disk space, color monitor with 16-bit color or greater video card, 800x600 or greater monitor resolution, CD-ROM drive.


About the Author
Colin Smith (Laguna Niguel, CA) has written multiple books on the subjects of Photoshop and digital tools, including How To Do Everything with Photoshop CS, New Masters of Photoshop 1&2, Photoshop Most Wanted, and Photoshop Most Wanted 2, Foundation Photoshop, Photoshop 7 Trade Secrets, and From Photoshop to Dreamweaver. He is the author of a video training series from PhotoshopCD.com. His writing credits also include Mac Design Magazine, a regular column in Photoshop User, and weekly columns for Planet Photoshop and the official NAPP members’ site. Colin is the founder of the very popular online community Photoshopcafe.com, and his work has been recognized by Photoshop User, Mac Design, Computer Arts, Dynamic Graphics, and WWW Internet Life magazines.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

If you've jumped into the digital realm, it's time to learn how to enhance, correct, and manipulate your photos. Photoshop CS for Digital Photographers teaches you how to take your images into Photoshop and turn them into masterpieces.

Photoshop CS is jam-packed with new features designed especially for digital photographers. Using Photoshop CS is essentially like having your own digital darkroom right on your desktop, which includes all the tools you need to achieve professional quality results. To help you master these tools, Photoshop CS for Digital Photographers teaches you professional techniques to overcome the many challenges presented by digital photography. By using these techniques, you'll be able to produce professional-quality results, and you'll establish an efficient workflow. Everything from the basics of organizing pictures and removing blemishes, to adding special effects is taught through practical tutorials and projects. Some of the topics include creative cropping, color and brightness correction, color shifting variations, removing wrinkles and red eye, nose reduction and eye enlargement, and framing techniques. In addition, special effects that teach how to turn your photos into paintings or change the time from day to night are also provided.

With the techniques and skills taught throughout the book, you'll learn how to manipulate your digital photos into truly customized and personalized images, and you'll master many of the powerful features of Photoshop CS. This no-nonsense, easy-to-read, full color guide is the one resource digital photographers need!

KEY FEATURES:* Provides a masterful blend of theory and hands-on tutorials for easy learning* Introduces each topic in a real-world workflow that is easy to apply to your own projects* Includes stand-alone sections that allow reading from cover to cover or browsing by particular technique* Illustrates examples with eye-catching photos and a beautiful color design throughout* Provides plain English explanations of techniques, so the reader is not just "following blindly"   About the Author:

Colin Smith (Laguna Niguel, CA) has written multiple books on the subjects of Photoshop and digital tools, including How To Do Everything with Photoshop CS, New Masters of Photoshop 1&2, Photoshop Most Wanted, and Photoshop Most Wanted 2, Foundation Photoshop, Photoshop 7 Trade Secrets, and From Photoshop to Dreamweaver. He is the author of a video training series from PhotoshopCD.com. His writing credits also include Mac Design Magazine, a regular column in Photoshop User, and weekly columns for Planet Photoshop and the official NAPP members' site. Colin is the founder of the very popular online community Photoshopcafe.com, and his work has been recognized by Photoshop User, Mac Design, Computer Arts, Dynamic Graphics, and WWW Internet Life magazines.

SYNOPSIS

This guide explains how to use Photoshop to enhance, correct, and manipulate digital photographs. Using tutorials to illustrate the application of the theory, the book discusses organization and automation, cropping and sizing, image correction, color correction, sharpening and noise reduction, image retouching, frame and color effect, special effects, working with multiple images, and collage. A companion CD contains image files, a photo gallery, training videos, and trial versions of relevant programs. Smith is a columnist with Planet Photoshop. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

FROM THE CRITICS

Library Journal

Scores of devoted Photoshop users and recent converts have generated demand for more titles on the latest version of Photoshop CS (see also Computer Media, LJ 4/1/04). A basic, step-by-step guide, QuickSteps uses full-color examples, screen shots, short tips, and notes to illustrate features; "How to" lists summarize each chapter; and "Quick Steps" sidebars show how to accomplish common tasks. Appropriate for libraries serving new users, but supplement with more thorough guides. Artistry will accommodate intermediate to advanced photographers and digital artists, including an annotated table of contents as well as "Must Reads" and images where appropriate. Although the text encompasses a lot of information, the pages are cluttered, the font size is too small, and typos abound. The CD contains project images and extra image files, plus links to demo software. Only for large libraries. Digital Photographers lives up to its title, focusing on various techniques for modifying digital photos. Step-by-step instructions, full-color examples, and screen shots demonstrate techniques, from reducing red-eye to adding special effects; explanations tell why and when to use particular tools. Its CD contains a Photoshop CS trial version, project images, tutorials, video examples, and demo third-party plugins. For medium and larger libraries. As with Digital Photographers, Real World is full color but includes fewer examples and screen shots in favor of more text and explanation, attempting to give readers the background to understand how Photoshop works and when its various features are needed. It generally assumes a finished print project and discusses optimizing for print, although the final chapter addresses multimedia and the web. Particularly helpful are explanations of different techniques for achieving similar results and examples of when to use each, as well as tips from the authors' real-world experience. For medium and larger libraries. Studio Techniques also attempts to provide background on when and why to use techniques, though in a more step-by-step fashion. It emphasizes nontechnical language and explanations and employs full-color examples throughout, with a CD of practice images. Straightforward prose and a sense of humor recommend this for medium and larger libraries. Also full-color, One-on-One includes two hours of training video on CD-ROM that corresponds with the exercises and chapter lessons in the book; this helps replicate a classroom experience and provides multiple learning methods. Quizzes and "Extra Credit" exercises aid in self-study; step-by-step discussions and illustrations let readers see if they are completing lessons correctly. A useful beginning to intermediate teach-yourself guide for all libraries. For intermediate users, Special Edition provides two thorough guides for the price of one, showing how to use Photoshop and Illustrator CS together--a useful approach given Adobe's new focus on the CS products as a cohesive suite. Unfortunately, it is not full color, though a color insert is included. The CD contains images, bonus chapters, and demo plugins and tools. For medium and larger libraries. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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