Photoshop CS4 For Dummies
Photoshop CS4 For Dummies

Author: Peter Bauer

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-05-06

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1118052587

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This latest version of Photoshop has a few new tricks up its sleeve and Adobe Photoshop CS4 For Dummies will teach you how to use them. From the basics like getting your images into and out of Photoshop to enhancing, cropping, and color correction, it’s all here! You’ll get all of the basics of digital images and master the importing and exporting of images. You’ll find out how to create easy enhancements like adding shadows and highlights and making color natural, in addition to learning how to use the Adobe camera raw plug-in. Before you know it, you’ll be making beautiful “art” with Photoshop by combining images, precision edges, dressing up images, painting in Photoshop, and using filters. You can even streamline your work in Photoshop using advanced techniques. Find out how to: Import images and use all the tools and processes Reduce digital noise, make colors look natural, add highlights and shadows Optimize images for print or the Web Edit images Explore the Painting function and master the daunting Brushes panel Add layer styles Create on-screen presentations, contact prints, and more Complete with lists of ten reasons to love your Wacom tablet, ten reasons to own a digital camera, and ten favorite tips and tricks, Adobe CS4For Dummies is your one-stop guide to setting up, working with, and making the most of Photoshop CS4 for all your digital photography needs.

Photoshop CS4 Bible
Photoshop CS4 Bible

Author: Stacy Cates

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-01-27

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13: 0470470925

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The ultimate comprehensive reference to Adobe now updated and revised to cover the CS4 release! As the industry-standard image-editing software for print and digital media, Photoshop has a phenomenally broad reach and, if you’re a user, then you’re anxious to get started with CS4! This authoritative guide to Photoshop CS4 shows you how to retouch, color correct, manipulate, and combine images Sheds light on optimal ways to create cutting-edge special effects for digital or film-based images, and then use them on the Web or in print More than 1,200 pages are packed with advice that demystifies even the most complex Photoshop tasks Covers everything from image-editing basics to techniques for working with camera raw images Also discusses the file browser, histogram palette, lens blur, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and more Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4
Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4

Author: Dan Moughamian

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2009-01-16

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 0132104660

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In Real World Compositing with Adobe Photoshop CS4, Photoshop experts Scott Valentine and Dan Moughamian explain the key elements involved in planning and executing a composite imaging project. Readers will learn about the importance of the planning process, including tips on how to develop creative ideas and stay organized as their project evolves. In addition, they will pick up vital techniques for acquiring and perfecting source images in Photoshop CS4, before bringing them together as a seamless composite. The powerful new 3D features found in the Extended edition are also discussed as part of a 2D-3D workflow. Serious photographers and digital artists wishing to produce photo-realistic imagery or surrealistic artwork by blending—or compositing—multiple images and light sources can learn all they need to know right here. Building from the reader's existing skill set of Photoshop fundamentals, the authors provide detailed examples and explanations that cover the newest features in Photoshop CS4 and also utilize a variety of tools and software applications. More than just a Photoshop guide, this book takes a holistic approach, instructing readers on photographic planning and techniques, key design concepts, visual perception, and robust image editing techniques. This is an increasingly popular approach which requires the digital artist to become more involved in the presentation and concept of their images. Real World Compositing with Photoshop CS4 delivers the information readers need, to produce the best possible composite imagery.

InDesign CS2 For Dummies
InDesign CS2 For Dummies

Author: Barbara Assadi

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2005-05-27

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780764598746

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Over the last few years, Adobe InDesign has made significantinroads against QuarkXPress, with adoptions by major mediacompanies such as Meredith Corporation and Hearst Magazines; it isnow the only desktop publishing program taught at many artschools Shows graphic designers how to get up to speed quickly on thelatest InDesign release, make the most of program tools, creategreat page designs, add sparkle, and output to a variety ofmedia The authors, both Quark experts who've converted to InDesign,offer special tips and insights to Quark users who are making (orthinking of making) the switch to InDesign

Printing with Adobe Photoshop CS4
Printing with Adobe Photoshop CS4

Author: Tim Daly

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1136099743

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This essential resource is the only guide you'll ever need to printing with Photoshop. Acclaimed author and photographer Tim Daly brings a wealth of experience to this under-resourced topic, covering every aspect of the printing process using Photoshop. Not content with simply covering the software, Tim approaches the entire workflow. This means that right from the moment of capture, your photos are optimised for the highest print quality from Photoshop. Topics covered include image capture and management, file processing, € creative emphasis, proofing, Photoshop print functions, color man.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 How-Tos
Adobe Photoshop CS4 How-Tos

Author: Chris Orwig

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2009-01-28

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0321635485

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Build your Photoshop expertise, one technique at a time Why spend time searching through a thick reference book when you can focus on the essential techniques? In Adobe Photoshop CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, author Chris Orwig brings you the best techniques to quickly organize and correct your digital images using the world’s most powerful photo-editing program. Complete with illustrations and practical tips, these bite-size lessons from Chris’s experience as a photographer and instructor provide just the information you need. You can explore the program at your own pace, spending less time at your computer and more time behind the lens taking great pictures. • Discover the Application bar [#4] • Work with and arrange multiple documents [#8] • Use the Photo Downloader in Adobe Bridge [#24] • Make localized nondestructive adjustments with Camera Raw [#38] • Set highlight and shadow target values using Curves [#69] • Adjust tones with the Dodge and Burn tools while protecting values [#77] • Create a layer mask[#78] • Retouch portraits to improve eyes [#86] • Create Web galleries to share your images [#97]

Photoshop CS4
Photoshop CS4

Author: Lesa Snider

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2008-12-26

Total Pages: 798

ISBN-13: 0596551223

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A guide to using Adobe Photoshop CS4 covers such topics as working with panels, creating a new document, managing layers, editing images, correction color and lighting, drawing with vector tools, and using filters.

The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Layers Book
The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Layers Book

Author: Richard A. Lynch

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0240521552

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Digital artists can master Photoshop CS4 with this visual, hands-on guide to using the Layers tool. The accompanying DVD comes complete with a generous library of practical actions based on techniques from the book that add functional power to Photoshop, along with practice images for all the exercises in the book.

Illustrator CS4 For Dummies
Illustrator CS4 For Dummies

Author: Ted Alspach

Publisher: For Dummies

Published: 2008-11-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780470396568

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Adobe Illustrator is the gold standard for creating exciting, color-rich artwork for print, the Web, or even mobile devices. Whether you’re stepping up to Illustrator CS4 or tackling Illustrator for the first time, you’ll find Illustrator CS4 For Dummies is the perfect partner. This full-color guide gives you the scoop on the newest tools, tips on color control and path editing, ways to organize graphics, and how to get your work into print or on the Web. You’ve heard Illustrator is a bit complicated? That’s why you need this friendly For Dummies book! It shows you how to: Manage Illustrator CS4’s many tools, commands, and palettes Decide when to choose RGB over CMYK and how to get perfect color when printing Compare path and pixel documents, adjust points on a path, and learn to use the versatile Pen and Pencil tools Use the Character and Paragraph palettes and get creative with type on a path Work in pixel preview mode, create Web-specific vector graphics, and use Flash with Illustrator Set up your pages for printing and work with separations, or save files in Web-friendly formats Create basic shapes, straight lines, and precise curves, then bring it all together into eye-popping artwork Organize with the Layers palette, tweak color, and make the most of styles and effects Use Illustrator together with other elements of the Adobe Creative Suite With plain-English instructions and colorful examples of what you can achieve, Illustrator CS4 For Dummies will make you an Illustrator pro in no time.