Adobe Photoshop CS Creative Studio [Paperback]

Luanne Seymour Cohen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 10, 2003

Whether you're a designer, illustrator, or artist, as an advanced Photoshop user, you're constantly on the lookout for the tips and techniques that will allow you to use Adobe's image manipulation program ever more creatively. Who better to turn to, then, than Adobe's own former Creative Director, Luanne Seymour Cohen? Using beautiful four-color artwork to inspire and a series of project-based lessons as the jumping-off point, Luanne shows you just how far you can take Photoshop's many advanced features to create dazzling digitally manipulated images of your own. Included are plenty of techniques that focus on making the most of Photoshop CS' new features: an improved File Browser; nonsquare pixel support; cool, new Photomerge technology (which allows you to create seamless panoramas out of multiple images); 16-bit image support; customizable keyboard shortcuts; the ability to place text on paths and in shapes; and more. If you're ready for a master class in Photoshop--but don¿t want to leave your home to take it--this book delivers!

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About the Author

With more than two decades of experience as one of the most sought-after graphic designers in the business, Luanne Seymour Cohen has worked for numerous Silicon Valley companies, including Atari, Apple Computer, and Adobe Systems. She has also written a number of books on graphic design and image manipulation-including several best-selling titles in Adobe Press' Classroom-in-Book series--and she lectures widely at schools and conferences.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press (December 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321220439
• ISBN-13: 978-0321220431
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,208,790 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the better recipe books for photoshop, January 18, 2004

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Darwin's Bulldog (Upstate New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Photoshop CS Creative Studio (Paperback)

There are many training books available for Photoshop, those for the new CS version are just arriving. Frankly, you'll need at least one, probably several. The in-the-box 'documentation' for Photoshop is pretty meager. Some of these books are step-by-step, hand holding instructions and some are more generous in why and how the steps are taken. This is one of the latter. Perhaps what's more important, the examples are selected very well for usefulness. Follow each one, and you'll have a very good repertoire of skills. This book uses extensive color illustrations and examples, something surprisingly missing from some PS books.

Also, this book in oriented to illustrators. You will learn now to create textures (wood, marble, chrome), shape overlays, masks and how to apply some of the artistic filters, but you will not find anything on photo retouching, sharpening, and enhancement. (This is actually a good thing; Scott Kelby has some good books in this area so you won't be duplicating anything in your library.)

Why not 5 stars? (4.5 is more appropriate) It would be very helpful to have access to some of the images used in the book; these are not downloadable and there is no CD with the book. Also, each of the 37 chapters starts with a really fine example of the author's work, but it is not the basis for the lesson that follows. Too bad... the examples are terrific!

There are a few 'bugs' in the book where the settings for some of the layer styles are missing. An errata list on the publisher's site would help.

Highly recommended!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another WINNER!, October 20, 2004

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L. Watts "Makaleha Arts" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Photoshop CS Creative Studio (Paperback)

Yep! I call "Photoshop CS - Creative Studio" as another winner from Peachpit Press! Although a strong basic working knowledge of Photoshop is required to make the best use of this book, even a novice would benefit from the hundreds of time saving tips, shortcuts and appendices. The creative exercises are clear and concise. This is a real "nuts and bolts" sort of recipe book... no dry or unwanted "humor" to wade through, just a LOT of real INFORMATION! (This is NOT an instructional book for Photoshop, but a creative supplement). As an "intermediate level" user of Photoshop CS, I found this publication to be an extremely valuable creative resource.