Real World Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers (Paperback)

by Conrad Chavez (Author), David Blatner (Author)
Key Phrases: camera raw, smart object, profile editor, Color Settings, Quick Mask, Refine Edge (more...)

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Product Description
This edition of Real World Photoshop is more tightly focused for the needs and demands of the professional digital photographers. From acquiring images to using an efficient processing workflow to maintaining image quality and final output quality all within the powerful feature set of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Extended CS4. Coverage of new features includes: live, non-destructive corrections in the Adjustments panel, re-editable, feathered, density controlled masks, enhanced auto-align, auto blend, 360 degree panoramas, and more.

The book's new focus helps readers understand the core workflow tasks, main print and web output options as well as the commercial printing information necessary to hand off images for prepress. Essentials information on file formats, color settings, image adjustment fundamentals, sharpness, detail, noise reduction, and image storage and output is also included. Photoshop Extended is covered where it relates specifically to photographers.

About the Author
Conrad Chavez is a fine-art photographer and the author of Working Smart in Photoshop CS2. He also coauthored Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2 Breakthroughs, and the third edition of Real World Scanning and Halftones, and the Adobe Illustrator Wow! Book. David Blatner is an internationally respected author or co-author of more than 15 books, including Adobe InDesign Breakthroughs, Adobe Photoshop Breakthroughs, and Real World Adobe Photoshop. He also wrote the world's best-selling book on QuarkXPress, Real World QuarkXPress.

Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (December 21, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321604512
• ISBN-13: 978-0321604514
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #64,699 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice..., March 21, 2009

By	J. Yates "GR Fan" (Branson, MO) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm a Photoshop (PS) beginner enrolled in a college PS course. It seems every book I've looked through and all the online tutorials assume you already use PS or are at least familiar with a previous edition. I bought this book because it gets down to the nuts and bolts of PS, telling me what each tool does and how. For me, this goes a long way in making something as complicated and non-intuitive as PS more understandable. The Kelby books are outstanding and nobody knows PS like him, but memorizing a series of steps without understanding them bugs me. Now I can learn the finer points of each tool, filter, whatever, and when I go back to my Kelby books, stuff makes more sense.