Making the Most of Photoshop CS Savvy: What s Inside


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Photoshop CS Savvy thoroughly covers the latest and greatest features of the software, from the from the File Browser s new enhancements to new tools and features for digital artists and photographers. Throughout the text I ve identified features that are new to Photoshop CS with a New margin flag. If you re familiar with previous versions of Photoshop and want to skim a topic for the latest changes, look for this marker. Photoshop s new features and operations are also summarized in Chapter 2.

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Photoshop CS Savvy is for users on both the Mac and Windows platforms. Differences between the Mac and Windows versions of Photoshop are slight . One obvious difference is key commands, which vary in some cases because of differences between keyboards for the two platforms. When keys differ , both are given, with the Mac key first: /Ctrl, Option/Alt, Return/Enter, Delete/Backspace. When keys need to be pressed in combination, they are separated by a hyphen. For example, /Ctrl-S indicates that you should press and S (Mac) or Ctrl and S (Win).

The primary content of Photoshop CS Savvy is distributed into several parts . There is also a special color section that provides the material you need to see in color , as well as a supporting CD-ROM containing the documents and images used in this book.

Part I : Photoshop Core

To put the phenomenon of Adobe Photoshop into a historical perspective, the introductory chapter presents the artistic foundations and technical innovations that have led to its emergence as the leading image-editing methodology in the world today. The sources are as diverse as the Impressionist movement and the development of the World Wide Web. In Chapter 2, I cover all of the new features that make this version a formidable upgrade. The rest of Part I, which is by far the largest section of the book, explores the nuts and bolts of Photoshop. The fundamentals of digital imaging are explained to provide insight as to how Photoshop documents are created and structured. With this basic information under your belt, you will gain a working, hands-on knowledge of Photoshop s core tools and operations, knowledge enough to begin to apply them to real-world projects.

Part II : Photoshop Color

Part II presents techniques for managing and manipulating color. In this section you will learn how to manage color throughout the entire imaging process to ensure predictable results. Part II also delves into tonal adjustment and color correction. A variety of creative color-mapping and correction possibilities are explored, along with techniques for image enhancement and photo retouching.

Part III : Photoshop Savvy

You ll really flex your Photoshop muscles in Part III. Featured are advanced techniques to retouch photos, manage layers , make complex selections, apply creative enhancement filters, superimpose images, and automate the program.

Part IV : Photoshop, WWW, and DV

The Internet, being a fundamental aspect of communication in the 21st century, deserves an exclusive section of the book. Photoshop is universally used to create and edit images for the Web. You will explore techniques for Web page design in Photoshop and methods for optimizing and saving images for use on the Internet. You ll explore ImageReady, Adobe s Web image ”preparation software that is bundled with Photoshop, and you ll learn to create spliced images, rollovers, and animations, and to save images for export to Flash. This part of the book also covers the fine points of digital video and the integration of Photoshop images with nonlinear editing software.

Hands On: Comprehensive Tutorials

Among the chapters, you ll find in-depth tutorials called Hands On. In these sections you ll get your hands dirty in complex, real-world projects that utilize a combination of the techniques discussed in previous chapters. Follow along using the image files on the CD.

Appendices

The appendices provide a reference to Photoshop CS. They include a description of some popular third-party plug-ins and an extensive list of Web resources. There are 4 bonus appendices on the CD, and these include a description of tools, file format information, explanations of blending modes, and an overview of key commands.

Glossary

The purpose of Photoshop CS Savvy is to demystify the software and make it more user -friendly and understandable to you. I have deliberately taken pains to avoid computerese wherever possible; however, in many instances it is not possible to explain certain concepts without using a specialized vocabulary. For this reason, I have included a comprehensive glossary for common (and uncommon) terminology that you might not be familiar with or that is needed to clarify a concept.

Color Material

The 32-page color section showcases color-oriented material from the chapters and Hands On sections. When you see a figure numbered C12, for example, within a chapter or tutorial, turn to the color section to see that image in full color.

The Photoshop CS Savvy CD

The CD that accompanies this book features the images and documents used in the book s step-by-step operations and Hands On sections. Images are contained within labeled folders for each chapter or Hands On tutorial. The CD also contains demo versions of some powerful Photoshop plug-ins and 4 bonus appendices.




Photoshop CS Savvy
Photoshop CS Savvy
ISBN: 078214280X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 355

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