Covers the most important features of Photoshop including: importing photos from digital cameras and scanners, retouching and repairing damaged photos, enhancing digital images, add custom 3-D effects, editing images for posting on the Web, creating a Web photo gallery, incorporating graphics into desktop publishing programs, color management, using palettes, compositing, using layers, applying gradients, and setting type and filters.
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Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something – and skip the long-winded explanations?
If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you’ll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 140 Photoshop 7 tasks, from manipulating image selections, using painting and drawing tools, and adjusting colors to working with layers, applying effects and filters, and adding type.
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- "Teach Yourself" sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
- Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
- Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
- Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
About the Author
Mike Wooldridge has worked as an independent Web developer, technology writer, and educator since 1995. He's written about Web technology for various publications, including Macworld, and MacHome Journal, as well as for CNET. He is the co-author of Master VISUALLY Dreamweaver 4 and Flash 5, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop 6, and Teach Yourself VISUALLY Dreamweaver 4.
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Mike Wooldridge is a user-interface designer and Web developer. He has authored more than 20 books for Wiley's Visual series.
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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John Nemerovski MyMac.com Book Review,
By Tim E Robertson "Publisher MyMac" (Battle Creek, Mi United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY (TM) Photoshop(R) 7 (Paperback)
Book Bytes has admired maranGraphics' approach to visual learning for many years. What works best here are specific screen shots in vibrant colors giving clear, concise, detailed instructions for beginning users of Photoshop 7. This cross-platform book provides specific directions for OS 9, OS X, and Windows whenever necessary. Bravo! It's a multi-OS world out there, publishers and authors. Two-page lesson spreads make valuable use of the highly successful "Teach Yourself Visually" format. Helpful Q&A style tips enhance each lesson. Turning to pages 82-83, we learn how to "skew or distort a selection" in Photoshop, complete with numbered, bulleted steps. It would take hundreds of words to instruct without comparable impact of the four-panel illustration. Just one example among many from Wooldridge and maranGraphics. Any gripes? Yes: * Often items within a screen being targeted visually are too tiny to see clearly if you're not following along while running Photoshop on your computer. * I'm being picky, but I get tired of seeing the same JPG examples used over and over again: bagels, palm trees, and light bulbs, for example. I understand they are repeated for continuity, but a little more variety would add spice to the imagery. (I do like that lime-green bagel multiple-effects layer project on pages 192-193, though.) * Teach Yourself Visually Adobe Photoshop 7 is a teaser, making me want to try everything in P7, but then I'll need to dig deeper within a more extensive book. Some beginners will outgrow the book before they finish using its tutorials. This book is most suited for readers who learn best from a visual presentation, then work on their own to develop more skills. Teach Yourself Visually Adobe Photoshop 7 makes just about everything in the software seem approachable. WOULD I BUY IT? Yes, to help students who fit the above profile. WOULD I USE IT IF IT WAS THE ONLY PHOTOSHOP BOOK AVAILABLE: Yes, and then set it aside in favor of PhotoShop's built-in Help application for additional instruction. DO I RECOMMEND IT? Yes, as mentioned above...
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Perfect for the Beginner,
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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY (TM) Photoshop(R) 7 (Paperback)
For the bewildered beginner, this book is ideal. There are NO longwinded chapters filled with theory that you have to digest. On the contrary, the entire book is written 'Betty Crocker' style, with a topic no longer than two pages long. Most of the page consists of pictures demonstrating the steps. The actual steps are listed at the bottom of the page. One can quickly learn how to work effectively without feeling like they're enrolled in an academic course.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beginners Guide to a Complex Product,
By Craig L. Howe "The Pointed Pundit" (Darien, CT United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY (TM) Photoshop(R) 7 (Paperback)
If you have ever bought software only to be befuddled by the tombs demonstrate it, this is the series for you.The book promises that you will read less and learn more. For the visual learner, the full colored screen shots and succinct explanations break 140 Photoshop 7 topics into two-page lessons. Simple; direct; helpful: What more would you want from an introductory software text?
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Photoshop lets you create, modify, combine, and optimize digital images. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
small window displays, single background layer, adjustment layer, using selection tools, history palette, canvas size, selected layer, fill layer, image window, crop tool, picture package, options bar, transparent pixels, opacity setting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Click the Layers, Click Save, Page Setup, Magic Wand, Print One Copy, Blend Layers, Click Filter, Color Balance, Unsharp Mask, Applying Layer, Rectangular Marquee, Click Automate, Click Transform, Convert Color Images, Getting Started, The Image Size, Click Adjustments, Click New Fill Layer, Cut Ctrl, Double-click the Adobe Photoshop, The Preferences New!
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Photoshop lets you create, modify, combine, and optimize digital images. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
small window displays, single background layer, adjustment layer, using selection tools, history palette, canvas size, selected layer, fill layer, image window, crop tool, picture package, options bar, transparent pixels, opacity setting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Click the Layers, Click Save, Page Setup, Magic Wand, Print One Copy, Blend Layers, Click Filter, Color Balance, Unsharp Mask, Applying Layer, Rectangular Marquee, Click Automate, Click Transform, Convert Color Images, Getting Started, The Image Size, Click Adjustments, Click New Fill Layer, Cut Ctrl, Double-click the Adobe Photoshop, The Preferences New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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