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Packed with beautiful color images and covering Photoshop 7.0 up to CS2
Offers a highly-structured learning approach to the fundamental skills
Includes practical projects to put theoretical knowledge into a creative context
Reviews
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'Clear and informative' - www.photoarchivenews.com
'A must for any photographer, whether an absolute beginner or one in advanced mode...Plough through Digital Imaging: Essential Skills, followed by Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills, memorise every other word and you will be the king of your camera club.' - Amateur Photographer
'Reading a technical manual with such interest and enthusiasm is indeed a rarity. Easy to comprehend, this will be essential reading for novice and experts alike who want to get to grips and understand the creative suite program as a whole. It is one of the best intro Photoshop books I have encountered to date.'
Andy Moxon, Professor of Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design
Description
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An inspirational and user-friendly guide to creative image editing, this book provides direction for photographers and designers alike who have ventured into the realm of the 'digital darkroom.' Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills offers a progressive curriculum to guide you through Photoshop with a series of clear, step-by-step projects designed to place knowledge into a practical context. You will build a useful and essential set of skills for creative and professional image editing and, whether you simply want to retouch an image, create a glamour makeover or create a highly sophisticated montage - this book will give you the essential skills to complete the work to a professional standard.
The accompanying CD-ROM and website, www.photoshopessentialskills.com, offer additional teaching and learning support materials which form a library of indispensable supporting resources including: All of the images used in the text
Over four hours of QuickTime movie tutorials to support the practical projects
A range of presets (including layer styles, curves, shapes and gradients)
Camera RAW files
Free extra chapters in e-book form.
Contents
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FOUNDATION MODULE: Introduction, The Digital Darkroom, Digital Basics, Capture and Enhance, Digital Negatives, Digital Printing. ADVANCED SKILLS: Layers and channels, Selections, Layer blends, filters. IMAGING PROJECTS: Retouching projects, Toning projects, Montage projects, Effects projects. Glossary, Keyboard shortcuts, Web links, Index, CD contents
Readership: Students studying photography/digital imaging/art and design/graphics both at school, and full-time tertiary education worldwide. Keen novices, serious enthusiast/amateur photographers, and knowledge-seeking/ aspiring professionals interested in self-teaching.
