Product Description
Photoshop is the undisputed leader in photo-editing programs. Widely used by photographers, graphic artists, printers, designers, and other creative professionals, it has something for everyone. It's the program's breadth that lies at the heart of its complexity—there are tools for everyone and everything. Our goal in this book is to present an introduction to Photoshop CS that lets you master those aspects of the program most useful to digital photographers. From this single perspective, CS is easier to master because you follow a single main road through the program. Detours along the many back roads of the program are for another time and another book. We recognize that digital images can be edited in a wide variety of ways. In some cases you're a photographer trying to improve an image by eliminating or reducing its flaws. In other cases you are a graphic artist taking an image to a new place, making it something it never was, or incorporating it as one element in a larger project. In this book we focus on the photographic aspects, but along the way you'll master the tools you need to do graphic arts. Included are chapters on Getting Started, Working with Image Files, Fixing Your Images, Working with Selections, Working with Layers, Painting & Drawing, Creating and Using Masks, Automating Tasks and Color Management. The book features an expensive spiral binding so it lies flat next to the computer, and when folded back on itself takes up have the desk space of books with cheaper bindings. Although written from a Windows point of view, the book is usable by Mac users experienced enough to cope with the few differences between the versions of the program.
About the Author
For the past three decades Dennis Curtin has been an editor, author, and publisher in photography and computing. His latest books on digital cameras and Photoshop have been widely praised for their quality and simplicity. On the publishing side, Dennis was editor-in-chief of one of Little Brown's educational divisions and also held similar positions in Prentice-Hall's technology and engineering program and Prentice-Hall International. In those roles, he has worked extensively with Ansel Adams and other leading photographers of our generation. In his roles as publisher, editor, and author Dennis has been fortunate to publish or write many best-selling books in photography and computing. He is well-known for the clarity and simplicity of his writing style. People who find many published materials incomprehensible, find Dennis' books a joy to read and learn from.
