Photoshop CS5

by Snider, Lesa

• ISBN13: 9781449381684
• ISBN10: 1449381685
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

You'd be hard-pressed to find a published image that hasn't spent some quality time in Adobe Photoshop. With new features such as Content-Aware Fill and Puppet Warp, Photoshop CS5 is more amazing -- and perhaps more bewildering -- than ever. That's where this full-color Missing Manual comes in. It covers Photoshop from a practical standpoint, with tips, tricks, and practical advice you can use every day to edit photos and create beautiful documents.Whether you're a beginner or an experienced pixel pusher ready to try advanced techniques, author and graphics pro Lesa Snider offers crystal-clear, jargon-free instructions to help you take advantage of these powerful tools -- not only how they work, but when you should use them. Describing the CS4 edition, bestselling Photoshop author Scott Kelby wrote, "Lesa did a great job on the book, and in my mind, it is the new Photoshop Bible." Learn your way around Photoshop's revamped workspace Get up to speed on essential features such as layers and channels Edit images by cropping, resizing, retouching, working with color, and more Create paintings and illustrations, work with text, and explore filters Prepare images for printing or the Web, and learn how to protect your images online Work smarter and faster by automating tasks and installing plug-insWritten with the clarity, humor, and objective scrutiny, Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual is the friendly, thorough resource you need.

Author Biography

Lesa Snider is on a mission to teach the world to create--and use--better graphics. She's a stock photographer and chief evangelist for iStockphoto, founder of the creative tutorial site http://GraphicReporter.com, author of Photoshop: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly, 2008), Graphic Secrets for Business Professionals (http://Lynda.com), From Photo to Graphic Art, and Practical Photoshop Elements (http://KelbyTraining.com). She writes regularly for Macworld Magazine, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, Elements Techniques, and Layers Magazine. Lesa is also a corporate trainer and teaches at many industry conferences including Photoshop World, Macworld Expo, Mac Mania Geek Cruises, and the esteemed Santa Fe Workshops. Since 2003, she has assisted New York Times technology columnist David Pogue with many projects, including his Missing Manual book series and NYT videos. You can catch Lesa's Graphics Tip of the Week live each Wednesday night on the Your Mac Life internet radio show, which she co-hosts.

Table of Contents

The Missing Credits

Foreword

Introduction

The Basics

Photoshop CS5 Guided Tour

Opening, Viewing, and Saving Files

Layers: The Key to Nondestructive Editing

Selections: Choosing What to Edit

Controlling Color with Channels

Editing Images

Cropping, Resizing, and Rotating

Combining Images

Draining, Changing, and Adding Color

Correcting Color and Lighting

The Beauty Salon: Photoshopping People

The Art of Sharpening

The Artistic Side of Photoshop

Painting in Photoshop

Drawing with the Vector Tools

Creating Artistic Text

The Wide World of Filters

Printing and the Web

Photoshop and Print

Photoshop and the Web

Photoshop Power

Working Smarter with Actions

Beyond Photoshop: Plug-Ins

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