Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques

by Willmore, Ben; Ablan, Dan

• ISBN13: 9780321613103
• ISBN10: 0321613104
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-10
• Publisher: Adobe Press

Summary

The definitive guide to mastering Photoshop's essential features, this award-winning guide has been completely updated for CS4- Extensive coverage of Photoshop CS4's newest features.- Fully updated with gorgeous new images and refined techniques, including an expanded chapter on Camera Raw.- Written by Photoshop experts Ben Willmore and Dan Ablan. Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover the new features in CS4. In a friendly, easy-going style that's long on information and short on techno-babble, Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Ben Willmore and photographer Dan Ablan guide you through the concepts and features that will truly make a difference in how you use Photoshop every day. They'll take you from blindly following step-by-step instructions to an in-depth understanding of how Photoshop works, cutting through the fat to focus on what they consider to be Photoshop's essential features. This full-color book delivers the content in three easily digestible sections: Working Foundations, Production Essentials, and Creative Explorations. Streamlined for this new edition, the book will distill Photoshop's vast capabilities down to what you need to know for a full understanding of the program, while simultaneously focusing more directly on best practices for the photographer. Beginning with a quick 'refresher course' on the working foundations of Photoshop, you'll move on to real-world production techniques. Finally, you'll get to fully explore Photoshop's creative potential by blending and enhancing images, creating collages, retouching photographs, colorizing, and working with filters and layer masks. By the time you finish this book, your creativity and efficiency levels will soar and you'll feel like you finally 'get' Photoshop. 504 Pages

Author Biography

Considered to be one of the all-time great Photoshop gurus, Ben Willmore has personally taught over 50,000 Photoshop users on four continents. Famous for finding the simplicity that lies within Photoshop's most complex features, and for his signature teaching style of "not just how but why," Ben was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame in 2004. Dan Ablan is president of AGA Digital Studios, Inc., and author of twelve books on computer graphics and publishing. Dan is an accomplished photographer and 3D animator, working the arts for the past twenty years.

Table of Contents

Working Foundations

Tools and Palette Primer

Bridge, Selections, & Layers

Production Essentials

Color Correction

Understanding Curves

Using Camera Raw 5.0

Color Manipulation

Adjustment Layers

Sharpening

Creative Techniques Chapter 9

Enhancements & Masking

Collage Effects

Retouching Techniques

Workflow 3D Garage.com Bonus Videos also online Bonus Video 1

Line Art Scanning Bonus Video 2

Channels Bonus Video 3

Shadows Bonus Video 4

Type and Background Effects Bonus Video 5

Resolution Solutions

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