Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills
- 1st Edition - June 13, 2005
- Imprint: Focal Press
- Authors: Mark Galer, Philip Andrews
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 7 0 7 0 - 2
An inspirational and user-friendly guide to creative image editing, this book provides direction for photographers and designers alike who have ventured into the realm of the… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAn inspirational and user-friendly guide to creative image editing, this book provides direction for photographers and designers alike who have ventured into the realm of the 'digital darkroom.' Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills offers a progressive curriculum to guide you through Photoshop with a series of clear, step-by-step projects designed to place knowledge into a practical context. You will build a useful and essential set of skills for creative and professional image editing and, whether you simply want to retouch an image, create a glamour makeover or create a highly sophisticated montage - this book will give you the essential skills to complete the work to a professional standard.
The accompanying CD-ROM and website, www.photoshopessentialskills.com, offer additional teaching and learning support materials which form a library of indispensable supporting resources including: All of the images used in the text * Over four hours of QuickTime movie tutorials to support the practical projects * A range of presets (including layer styles, curves, shapes and gradients) * Camera RAW files * Free extra chapters in e-book form.
The accompanying CD-ROM and website, www.photoshopessentialskills.com, offer additional teaching and learning support materials which form a library of indispensable supporting resources including: All of the images used in the text * Over four hours of QuickTime movie tutorials to support the practical projects * A range of presets (including layer styles, curves, shapes and gradients) * Camera RAW files * Free extra chapters in e-book form.
* Packed with beautiful color images and covering Photoshop 7.0 up to CS2
* Includes practical projects to put theoretical knowledge into a creative context
* CD-ROM and website, www.photoshopessentialskills.com, offer additional teaching and learning support materials
* Includes practical projects to put theoretical knowledge into a creative context
* CD-ROM and website, www.photoshopessentialskills.com, offer additional teaching and learning support materials
Students studying photography/digital imaging/art and design/graphics both at school, and full-time tertiary education worldwide. Keen novices, serious enthusiast/amateur photographers, and knowledge-seeking/ aspiring professionals interested in self-teaching.
FOUNDATION MODULE:
Introduction
The Digital Darkroom
Digital Basics
Capture and Enhance
Digital Negatives
Digital Printing
ADVANCED SKILLS:
Layers and channels
Selections
Layer blends
filters
IMAGING PROJECTS:
Retouching projects
Toning projects
Montage projects
Effects projects
Glossary
Keyboard shortcuts
Web links
Index
CD contents
Introduction
The Digital Darkroom
Digital Basics
Capture and Enhance
Digital Negatives
Digital Printing
ADVANCED SKILLS:
Layers and channels
Selections
Layer blends
filters
IMAGING PROJECTS:
Retouching projects
Toning projects
Montage projects
Effects projects
Glossary
Keyboard shortcuts
Web links
Index
CD contents
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 13, 2005
- Imprint: Focal Press
- No. of pages: 384
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780080470702
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Mark Galer
Mark Galer is the Program Director and Senior lecturer at RMIT University in the School of Media and Communication, Australia. He is also co-writer of their popular online photography courses. He has lectured in photography in the UK and Australia and has worked commercially as a freelance photographer on corporate and editorial assignments. He has written numerous top-selling photography books, including Photography Foundations for Art & Design, the Popular Photoshop Elements; Maximum Performance and Photoshop; Essential Skills series. He is an Official Adobe Ambassador for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior lecturer at RMIT University, Australia; Official Adobe AmbassadorPA
Philip Andrews
Philip Andrews is Adobe Australia's official Photoshop and Elements Ambassador. He is an experienced photographer, author, magazine editor and online course creator. He was previously a lecturer at the Queensland School of Printing and Graphic Arts, Australia and Nescot, England. He is a beta tester for Photoshop, an alpha tester for Photoshop Elements and a Photoshop specialist demonstrator for Adobe Australia. Contributing numerous articles and videos to AdobeTV and the inspirational browser, Philip is a leading source in adobe information and instruction.
Philip is also co-founder of photo-college.com an online photography training college. He's a regular contributor to several magazines including Shutterbug, Amateur Photographer, Australian Photography and Better Photography, he is senior contributing editor for Better Digital, columnist for What Digital Camera and Co-editor and publisher of Better Photoshop Techniques magazine.
Affiliations and expertise
Adobe Australia's official Photoshop and Elements Ambassador; Former Lecturer, Queensland School of Printing and Graphic Arts, Australia and Nescot, EnglandRead Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills on ScienceDirect