Amazon.com Review
This handy guide presents 24 one-hour lessons for teaching beginners how to use the new Adobe Photoshop 5 for Macintosh and Windows. The book first gives you a tour of the interface, teaching you how to open and save files and rotate, resize, and otherwise transform images. Next you get into trickier but more creative aspects of the package, using color modes and color models, color-adjustment tools, paint tools, layers, masks, and paths. You progress to learning to apply filters, work with type, apply special effects, use plug-ins, create composite images, repair black-and-white and color photos, and output your work to a printer and to the Web.
Each lesson includes a clear, thorough discussion of the features at hand, quick usage tips, and step-by-step exercises. There are plenty of helpful screen shots and a list of keyboard shortcuts as well. A summary and quiz mark the end of each lesson, helping you assimilate the new material. If you need to quickly learn Photoshop's essential features and image-editing, -compositing, and -correcting techniques, give this book a close look. -- Kathleen Caster
Product Description
Find your answer to ... - What's new in Adobe Photoshop 5 from menu items to tools,- Using layers, masks, and selections,- Creating new art with the painting tools,- Repairing black and white or color photos,- Adjusting color and working in different color modes,- Using all the Adobe Photoshop 5 filters to create special effects,- Adding type to your images,- Combining pictures,- Resizing, reshaping, skewing, and distorting,- Optimizing images for use on the Web.
- In just 24 proven one-hour sessions readers learn the essentials of Adobe Photoshop from the ground up
- Covers what's new in Adobe Photoshop 5, from menu items to tools
- Tips point out shortcuts and solutions, notes clarify concepts and procedures in a straightforward manner, and cautions help you avoid common pitfalls
