Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release)

by Faulkner, Andrew; Chavez, Conrad

• ISBN13: 9780135261781
• ISBN10: 0135261783
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780135262542
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780133924442, 9780134852485, 9780136904731
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-11-26
• Publisher: Adobe Press
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Summary

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop choose Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2019 release) from Adobe Press. The 15 project-based lessons show key step-by-step techniques for working in Photoshop, including how to correct, enhance, and distort digital images, create image composites, and prepare images for print and the web.

 

In addition to learning the essential elements of the Photoshop interface, this revised edition for the 2019 release covers features like the new Frame tool, designing reflected and radial art with Paint Symmetry, correcting mistakes with updated Undo, Navigating the redesigned Home screen, removing objects with upgraded Content-Aware Fill, saving time with simplified editing and transformations, and much more!

 

The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter. All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: A Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and multiple-choice quizzes.

 

Author Biography

Andrew Faulkner is the founder and creative guru at Afstudio Design with 20+ years in providing design and photo-illustration services to a long list of corporate clients. His work with Adobe Systems started in 1994, when they invited him to help develop the first Adobe Classroom in a Book. Andrew has co-authored numerous editions of the Classroom in a Book series on Photoshop, After Effects, and Flash. In addition to his graphic design work, he is a veteran Photoshop jockey, and his digital collage illustration work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The LA Times, and The Washington Post. His recent digital painting work can be seen online at www.andrew-faulkner.com. When Andrew’s not at the studio, you can probably find him hunting down rare vinyl at one of the Bay Area’s vintage record stores.

 

Conrad Chavez has provided education, training, and support for digital-media applications for over 20 years, originally contributing countless pages to the user guides for print, Web, and digital video products at Aldus Corporation and Adobe Systems Inc. Now a freelance writer and editor, Conrad creates books and videos that teach Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Creative Cloud workflows. His work includes the last three editions of Real World Adobe Photoshop for Photographers and the video Color Management for Photographers and Designers. He also writes articles for publications including CreativePro.com, InDesign Magazine, and Peachpit.com. To learn more about Conrad’s work and photography, please see www.conradchavez.com.

Table of Contents

Previous Edition Table of Contents

GETTING STARTED

1 GETTING TO KNOW THE WORK AREA

2 BASIC PHOTO CORRECTIONS

3 WORKING WITH SELECTIONS

4 LAYER BASICS

5 QUICK FIXES

6 MASKS AND CHANNELS

7 TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN

8 VECTOR DRAWING TECHNIQUES

9 ADVANCED COMPOSITING

10 PAINTING WITH THE MIXER BRUSH

11 EDITING VIDEO

12 WORKING WITH CAMERA RAW

13 PREPARING FILES FOR THE WEB

14 PRODUCING AND PRINTING CONSISTENT COLOR

15 PRINTING 3D FILES

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