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Complete Photoshop CS2 For Digital Photographers (Graphics Series) (Paperback)

by Colin Smith (Author)
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Complete Photoshop CS2 for Digital Photographers is packed with updated coverage and tutorials on the new features of CS2. As with the first edition, this book is designed and written especially for digital photographers. It teaches you how to organize, enhance, correct, and retouch images; how to do creative things with those images; and how to output them. Using Photoshop CS is essentially like having your own digital darkroom on your desktop, and with the help of tutorials in this book, you’ll learn how to master this powerful tool. By working through these projects, you’ll explore the new and enhanced areas of Photoshop, including more in depth coverage of Camera Raw and working with multiple images. Expanded coverage of Bridge is also provided. When printing your images, paper choices can be critical, so new coverage about color management and working with profiles for getting accurate prints is detailed. In addition, there is coverage of the new sharpening, noise reduction and retouching tools, and methods. We’ll also dive into the Lens Warp filter for fixing crooked and warped images. To help you master these tools the book teaches you professional techniques for overcoming the many challenges you’ll face and by using these techniques, you’ll be able to bring out the best from any photo, while establishing an efficient workflow. If you truly want to understand and master Photoshop CS2 for digital photography, this is the resource you need. Features: * Provides in depth resource for digital photographers * Includes detailed tutorials that explore and explain the why behind tools and techniques * Details start-to-finish instruction for organizing and renaming pictures in Bridge, processing multiple RAW images, removing blemishes, and adding special effects * Provides updated coverage of new features, tools, and techniques, includeing Lens Blur with a custom depth map, changing the color of an object within an image, Patch tool, Red Eye tool. Spot healing brush, Boise Reduction Filter, and more * Includes advanced topical coverage from using curves histograms and eyedroppers, correcting and enhancing color and tone, to using LAB mode for correction, sharpening, and removing grain * Covers everything from retouching faces, to using reature like Vvanishing Point and Lens correction * Teaches special effects techniques for turning photos into beautiful paintings and merging multiple images seamlessly into collages and then creating frames to display these works of art On the CD * All tutorial images * Five video files from PhotoshopCafe

- Adobe Bridge Overview

- Using Shadow/Highlight

- Reducing Grain with New Reduce Noise Filter

- Swapping Faces with Advanced Match Color

- Using the new Vanishing Point System Requirements: Windows Intel Pentium III or 4 processor, Microsoft Window 2000 Windows XP, with necessary service packs for running Adobe Photoshop CS2, Macintosh Power PC G3, G4, or G5 processor, Mac OSX v. 10.2 or higher. Both systems require 192 MB of RAM (256MB recommended)., 280 (PC) 320MS (Mac) of available disk space, color monitor with 16 bit color or greater, video card, 800 x 600 or greater monitor resolution, CD-ROM drive, Internet Connection, and Adobe Photoshop CS2.

About the Author
Colin Smith (Irvine, CA) has written multiple books on subjects of Photoshop and digital tools, including the first edition of this book, Photoshop CS for Digital Photographers, How to Do Everything with Photoshop CS and CS2, New Masters of Photoshop1 & 2, Photoshop Most Wanted, and Photoshop Most Wanted 2. He is also the author of a video training serious from PhotoshopCS.com. His writing credits also include Mc Design Magazine, a regular column in Photoshop User, and weekly columns for Planet Photoshop and the official NAPP members’ site. Colin is the founder of the very popular online community Photoshopcafe.com, and his work has been recognized by Photoshop User, Mac Design, Computer Arts, Dynamic Graphics, and WWW Internet Life magazines.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Charles River Media; 1 edition (November 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1584504625
  • ISBN-13: 978-1584504627
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #340,173 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Complete Photoshop CS2 for Digital Photographers, January 19, 2006
This book has 11 Chapters packed with need to know information for everyone interested in Digital Photography.
Chapter 1. Explores file formats, resolution and pixels, gets involved with 16 bit images, then it goes into adjusting in Camera Raw.
Chapter 2. Is all about Adobe Bridge, this helps plan and organize your images.
Explains how you can label, rate your images. Want to add copyright information to your image; you need Metadata, shows how to make a Metadata Template.
Use batch Renaming to rename an entire folder of images. Learn how to do contact sheets, picture package, PDF presentation with security. Make a Web Gallery add Watermark to your images automatically.
Chapter 3. It tells you how to crop and size your images without destroying their appearance. When you resize images you need to know all about resolution, this chapter explains in very good details about resolution, image size, canvas size all the resampling methods are here. Learn how to crop unwanted detail so that the picture draws the viewer into the picture, shows different cropping methods.
Chapter 4. Covers Image Correction, learn about histograms in detail.
Brightness/contrast, Shadow/highlight, Levels, Curves, Adjustment layers, it's all here.
Chapter 5. Bring out the best color in your images. Yes, this chapter is all about color Correction, try using adjustment layers. Learn Color Balance using variations, Match Color, Hue/Saturation use levels or curves to correct color.
Chapter 6. Sharpening and Noise Reduction, use the unsharpe mask to sharpen images, work in Lab Mode to sharpen, fading the sharpness, the Smart Sharpen tool will sharpen an image but not the grain, Nondestructive sharpening. Use Channels for noise reduction, Smart Blur for reducing Luminosity Noise, Lab Mode to reduce color noise.
Chapter 7. Takes you to the image retouching world, remove moles, blemishes, reduce wrinkles, whitening teeth, use the Healing brush, patch tool and liquify tool.
Chapter 8. Color effects, convert your images to grayscale and sepia, or just change the color of an object in a photo, add a vignette or an edge to your photo, make frame effects that mimic reality.
Chapter 9. Cover Special Effects, add depth of field to images, and turn a photo into a sketch or a watercolor painting. This chapter also involves the Vanishing Point, Speech Bubbles this chapter is a lot of fun.
Chapter 10. Working with multiple image, learn how to use color range to remove an object from its background, use the extract tool to extract images compositing two images, combining images, creating cast shadows.
Chapter 11. Covers Collaging Techniques and printing, blend collage using Layers, Masks and Blending Modes, use the advanced blending. Create a seamless panorama, also make an animation with the help of Image Ready, learn about color management and print accurate colors.

Conclusion: - This book is for Photographers who are changing from film to digital, amateurs and hobbyist that want to master Photoshop for their digital images.
The book is nicely laid out, clear figures and instructions. Comes with a CD-ROM with image files used from the tutorials also five video clips are included along with some actions.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars First Rate!, November 29, 2005
By G. Tobin (encino, ca USA) - See all my reviews
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I must have 15 Photoshop CS/CS2 books on my shelf and although I've learned something from each of them, there is one thing that is missing. That is, readability. Complete Photoshop CS2 for D.P. is the first book that I WANT TO READ!! I like reading this book!!
Each chapter is clear, concise, and full of tips. It is presented in such a way that you learn twice as much, in half the time!
If only I could start over I'd buy this one book. Not only would I save space on my bookshelf, but I would have enough money for CS3!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Book for Digital Photographers, January 31, 2006
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This book is a must have for any user of Photoshop both amateur and pro. It covers a wide range of topics including raw format, color correction and the bridge just to name a few. The examples and concepts are provided in a great amount of detail so you never get lost. The author will walk you through each and every step of the process and explain alternatives to complete the task. Source material is available on the provided CD for a majority of the tips, tutorials and some extra content like Actions.

If you are a photographer by day or just like to shoot for fun then this book is for you. Colin really knows how to cover a topic in great detail and without all the fluff you find in most books. A few of the chapters are devoted to specific additions to CS2 which is great to get up to speed on the new features such as the bridge or the new and improved photo gallery. I give this book a 5 out of 5 and the reason for that is because the content is relevant, to the point and it is nice to get some sample source to work with.
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