Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques

by Ben Willmore, Dan Ablan

Overview

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover the new features in CS4. In a friendly, easy-going style that's long on information and short on techno-babble, Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Ben Willmore and photographer Dan Ablan guide you through the concepts and features that will truly make a difference in how you use Photoshop every day. They'll take you from blindly following step-by-step instructions to an in-depth understanding of how Photoshop works, cutting through the fat to focus on what they consider to be Photoshop's essential features. This full-color book delivers the content in three easily digestible sections: Working Foundations, Production Essentials, and Creative Explorations. Streamlined for this new edition, the book will distill Photoshop's vast capabilities down to what you need to know for a full understanding of the program, while simultaneously focusing more directly on best practices for the photographer. Beginning with a quick "refresher course" on the working foundations of Photoshop, you'll move on to real-world production techniques. Finally, you'll get to fully explore Photoshop's creative potential by blending and enhancing images, creating collages, retouching photographs, colorizing, and working with filters and layer masks. By the time you finish this book, your creativity and efficiency levels will soar and you'll feel like you finally "get" Photoshop.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780321613103
Publisher:	Adobe Press
Publication date:	03/24/2009
Series:	Studio Techniques
Pages:	504
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Considered to be one of the all-time great Photoshop gurus, Ben Willmore has personally taught over 50,000 Photoshop users on four continents. Famous for finding the simplicity that lies within Photoshop's most complex features, and for his signature teaching style of "not just how but why," Ben was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame in 2004. Dan Ablan is president of AGA Digital Studios, Inc., and author of twelve books on computer graphics and publishing. Dan is an accomplished photographer and 3D animator, working the arts for the past twenty years.

Table of Contents

Part I Working Foundations
Chapter 1 Tools and Palette Primer Chapter 2 Bridge, Selections, & Layers
Part II Production Essentials
Chapter 3 Color Correction Chapter 4 Understanding Curves Chapter 5 Using Camera Raw 5.0
Chapter 6 Color Manipulation Chapter 7 Adjustment Layers Chapter 8 Sharpening
Part III Creative Techniques
Chapter 9 Enhancements & Masking Chapter 10 Collage Effects Chapter 11 Retouching Techniques Chapter 12 Workflow
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