Exploring Photoshop CS2

by Hartman,Annesa

• ISBN13: 9781418011543
• ISBN10: 1418011541
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-20
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Now fully updated to the new release of Adobe's Creative Suite, Exploring Photoshop CS2 shows how to turn a great software tool into great designs. Written by an experienced designer and computer graphics instructor, Exploring Photoshop CS2 is a designer-driven resource that examines the tools and features of Adobe? Photoshop? while showing how to maximize the potential of desktop digital imaging for graphics, illustration, composition, and special effects.

Author Biography

Annesa Hartman is Manager of Technology Learning Services at Landmark College in Putney, Vermont.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
A Discovery Tour	p. 2
A Magic Tour	p. 4
Photoshop-In Brief	p. 15
Summary	p. 16
The Staging Area	p. 18
Staging	p. 20
Seeing Is Believing	p. 32
Summary	p. 36
Image Essentials	p. 38
Image Construction	p. 40
Pixels: The Main Ingredient	p. 47
Summary	p. 54
Selecting and Transforming	p. 56
About Selecting and Transforming	p. 58
Summary	p. 81
Working with Color	p. 84
Optical Mixing	p. 86
Spectral Illusion	p. 88
Choosing a Color Model	p. 89
Getting in the Mode	p. 92
Applying Color	p. 93
Adjusting Color	p. 99
Summary	p. 110
Image Correction	p. 112
Six Steps of En"light" enment	p. 114
Summary	p. 129
Drawing and Painting	p. 134
Pixels-A Contemporary Art Medium	p. 136
Vectors: A Guest Appearance	p. 144
Making Shapes	p. 154
Summary	p. 159
Adventures in Design: Dodge and Burn	p. 164
Masking	p. 168
Unmasking Masks	p. 170
Types of Masks	p. 175
Summary	p. 184
Layers, Compositing, and Process	p. 186
About Compositing and Composition	p. 188
A Design Process	p. 188
Blending Modes, Styles, and Effects	p. 199
Summary	p. 206
Adventures in Design: From the Imagination	p. 208
Print Publishing	p. 212
Print Methods	p. 214
Output Compatibility	p. 216
Consult the Professionals	p. 226
Setting Up the Print Job	p. 226
Summary	p. 230
Adventures in Design: Wine Box Composition	p. 234
Web Publishing	p. 238
About Optimization	p. 240
Quick Tour of ImageReady	p. 247
Image Slicing	p. 258
Summary	p. 263
Index	p. 266
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