The Essential Photoshop 5 Book


Book Description

An editor and graphic designer who oversees all feature content and interactive broadcasts on IBM's Web site applies her expertise to Photoshop 5, giving tips and tricks for beginners and intermediate users alike.




Essential Photoshop 6 for Web Professionals


Book Description

Adobe's new Photoshop 6 is powerful, pixel-based image-editing software. This new book covers the basics and gets readers up and running with Photoshop 6 fast. The authors explain the theory behind the Web--such as color and graphic formats--to help the reader make the best choices. The book is also accompanied by a free Web site with downloadable code and images.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adobe Photoshop 5


Book Description

Explains how to use the computer graphics program to enhance photographs, manipulate images, and transfer graphic files between different types of computers




Outlook 98 Fast & Easy


Book Description

This book provides of hands-exercise and visually teaches the reader how to access all the resources of Outlook and its components, including email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and more. Each page is filled with pictures and explanations that instruct and show the reader exactly what to do, making both the book and the program easy to use. The beginning user will learn to use each of these components and progress to an intermediate level where they learn how to customize each component for maximum results and productivity. Tips and tricks are provided throughout the book.




Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Digital Classroom


Book Description

This 800 page book and video combination provides a complete training package covering Creative Suite 5 Design Premium! Twenty five self-paced lessons help you discover the basics of page layout, vector graphics, photo editing, document management, Web design, animation, and file management. Step-by-step instructions and video tutorials round out this invaluable full-color book-and-video combo. This book includes complete lessons, videos, and exercise files for you to learn InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and Adobe Bridge. Features full-color, step-by-step instructions that make even the most complicated tasks easy to understand, while the video training enhances the content covered in the book Find ways to use the Adobe Creative Suite to create dynamic designs with its robust tools Combines an 800 page full-color instructional book along with lesson files and video training from Adobe Certified Experts You'll feel as though you have your own personal instructor guiding you through each lesson as you work at your own speed learning the latest release of Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium! Note: DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. These materials are available for download upon purchase.




Essential Adobe Photoshop CC


Book Description

Adobe Photoshop CC Made Easy Most people would love to use Adobe Photoshop but find it somewhere between difficult and impossible to learn. If you’re one of them, this book can help you. Photoshop can be easy to learn by understanding a few essential tools and techniques. You need to stop trying to remember how to use lots of complicated tools. Instead, focus your attention on learning the essentials that make Photoshop easy to use. Follow this book’s chapters, completing the exercises and you’ll soon be editing photos as though you’ve been using the software for years. This book is carefully organised into a series of lessons, each exploring an essential editing tool or technique. As you progress, each new lesson builds on the previous one, helping minimise repetition, saving you time and making Photoshop easy. It also allows you to go in depth into the areas that are important. You will learn about: · The most important elements of the Photoshop interface as well as how to customise these to your needs. · Using Adobe Camera RAW to convert RAW photo files into high-quality images. · How layers form the backbone of Photoshop and how to use them to improve your editing. · Retouching techniques to clean up dust spots, as well as more complex tasks like duplicating and moving objects in a photo. · Correcting tone and colour in an image using the Levels and Curves tools. The power hidden in these simple tools will surprise you. · How to convert your images to black and white as well as important techniques like Dodging and Burning. · Creating and using layer masks to precisely target your adjustments on specific areas of an image. · Sharpening your photos for professional results. · A workflow you can use to consolidate all these tools and techniques into an easy to apply approach. · And lots more. Throughout the book there are many examples and exercises for you to follow. You can download the practice photos for these from my website, allowing you to follow along on your own computer. By the end of this book you will be confidently using Adobe Photoshop CC to edit your photos. This is a comprehensive and concise guide to learning Adobe Photoshop CC. You don’t need to wade through hundreds of pages trying to understand how to edit a photo. It doesn’t matter if you are a complete novice or have some experience of Adobe Photoshop CC, this book could help improve your photo editing. This book could be your best investment in learning Photoshop.




The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book


Book Description

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, offering powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images. In this completely updated bestseller, author Martin Evening describes features in Lightroom 5 in detail from a photographer’s perspective. As an established commercial and fashion photographer, Martin knows firsthand what photographers need for an efficient workflow. He has been working with Lightroom from the beginning, monitoring the product’s development and providing valued feedback to Adobe. As a result, Martin knows the software inside and out, from image selection to image editing and image management. In this book he’ll teach you how to: Work efficiently with images shot in raw or JPEG formats Import photographs with ease and sort them according to your workflow Create and manage a personal image and video library Quickly apply tonal adjustments to multiple images Integrate Lightroom with Adobe Photoshop Export images for print or Web as digital contact sheets or personal portfolios Make the most of new features in Lightroom 5, such as extended spot removal, UprightTM corrections, and Smart Previews Photographers will find Lightroom 5—and The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book—indispensable tools in their digital darkrooms. “With Martin’s expert guidance, you’ll soon find that you have precisely the tools you need to turn your concentration back where it belongs—on making better pictures!” —George Jardine, digital photography consultant “As a photographer himself, Martin Evening knows what tools photographers need to realize their creative vision. In this book, he shows not only how Adobe Photoshop Lightroom works but also why it will become an essential part of any photographer’s workflow.” —Greg Gorman, photographer




Maximum PC


Book Description

Maximum PC is the magazine that every computer fanatic, PC gamer or content creator must read. Each and every issue is packed with punishing product reviews, insightful and innovative how-to stories and the illuminating technical articles that enthusiasts crave.




Photoshop CS5 Digital Classroom


Book Description

Photoshop CS5 is included with the Creative Suite 5.5 bundle. This book covers the version of Photoshop that ships with both Creative Suite 5 and Creative Suite 5.5. Photoshop is the world’s most popular image-editing software, with more than four million users worldwide. This full-color book with video tutorials works together to create an entire Photoshop training which photographers, Web designers, and graphic designers can complete at their own pace. Fourteen lessons cover the features and capabilities of the newest version of Photoshop while teaching all the essential skills. Photoshop is the image-editing software preferred by professional photographers and designers around the world; the latest version includes new functionality and enhanced tools Each of the 14 lessons developed by Adobe certified instructors includes step-by-step instructions, lesson files, and video tutorials Covers Adobe Bridge, Camera RAW, masks and layers, painting and retouching, selections and layers, and more, taking you from the basics through intermediate-level skills Photoshop CS5 Digital Classroom allows you to learn Photoshop from the experts who create official Adobe training materials, and do it at your own speed. Note: DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. These materials are available for download upon purchase.




Learn Digital Photography in a Weekend


Book Description

Braun guides readers through the essentials of both "pure" and "hybrid" digital photography using a hands-on style of instruction. Beginning with the fundamentals of all photography, the book will address how shooting differs when using digital methods. Readers will learn how to use hardware and software to achieve the final digital photograph that best suits their needs.