Advanced Photoshop Magazine 2007

The latest and greatest Photoshop techniques;

* Applying Lighting renders
* Integrate Poser renders
* Professional retouching masterclass Creative Tutorials Challenging and inspiring

Masterclasses including;

* Create a photomontage
* Design a lowlight landscape

Also featured:

* 2007 Graduate Showcase
* Photoshop CS3 and CS3 Extended update
* Win one of three work placements with McFaul PDF only

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Teach YourSelf Adobe Photoshop CS2 in 24 Hours

Teach YourSelf Adobe Photoshop CS2 in 24 Hours

Create works of art using your computer, Adobe Photoshop CS 2 and Sams Teach Yourself Photoshop CS 2 in 24 Hours. Learn the basics of Photoshop with a minimum of jargon from market-leading author, Carla Rose. Her conversational, friendly approach will make Photoshop seem less intimidating and more manageable to learn. With Carla’s help, you will learn to: Select color modes Use paintbrushes and art tools Use layers, masks and paths Use artistic filters Apply special effects to pictures Enhance and repair photosMaster the world’s leading image editing and manipulation tool with this accessible yet detailed, step-by-step tutorial.

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Black and white photography in CS3

Black and white photography has come a long way in the digital world. Feeling overwhelmed by the endless conversion options in (and around) Photoshop, Lightroom and beyond? If so, youre not alone, and this is definitely the book for you!

In this thoroughly up-to-date book that covers all of the new features of Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom, you’ll learn how to use methods within an application or raw converter, scripts, plug-ins, and more. Leslie Alsheimer and Bryan O’Neil Hughes show you everything you need to know to uncover the secrets to successful black and white conversion and printmaking. Let the stunning images (presented in both color and black and white) show you just what is possible when you master these powerful tools.
Learn from step-by-step tutorials and work through each conversion with clear, easy-to-follow instructions illustrated by a multitude of images and screengrabsMaximize image quality in capture and output with professional tips and tricks for speeding up your workflowSave time and learn professional techniques to creatively and technically improve your black and white photography and printmaking

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Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook

Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook

How would you like to create your own impressionist landscape, a van Gogh still life, or a surrealist Salvador Dali dream world? Or perhaps a classic Ansel Adams photograph of Yosemite or an authentic-looking 19th century Daguerrotype? You can do all of that and more with Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook. The book tells you all you need to know to turn your original digital photographs into images that mimic the styles of great photographers and painters. From advice on how to develop an eye for appropriate subject matter to 62 detailed recipes that demonstrate exactly how to create an “original” van Gogh, Vermeer, Edward Weston, or Andy Warhol (among others), this book is an authentic guide to understanding and simulating the work of great artists-and a whole lot of fun.Analyzing the styles of great artists: format, composition, angles of view, color palettes, and image texturesShooting for digital manipulation, working non-destructively, making your own brushes and patternsCreating Daguerrotypes, cyanotypes, stop-motion photographs, cross-processed images, Polaroid transfers, and infrared effectsMimicking photographic styles from the pre-Raphaelites and the Naturalists to Jerry Uelsmann and David HockneyExploring painting and printmaking techniques from Rembrandt to Warhol: Dutch portraits, 18th century landscape painting, Japanese woodblocks, Impressionism, Pointillism, Fauvism, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Pop ArtPacked with step-by-step instructions, an inspirational selection of full-color digital imagery, and authoritative information and advice, Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook is the ultimate guide to creating convincing digital masterpieces in the styles of many of the world’s greatest artists.

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Working Smart in Adobe Photoshop CS2

Working Smart in Adobe Photoshop CS2

Everyone uses Photoshop; however, not everyone uses it efficiently! With this guide, the folks at Adobe Press are hoping to remedy that situation. Realizing that if you're a veteran Photoshop user, you may still be using methods more suitable to long-ago versions and that if you're new to Photoshop, you may be missing out on some of the long-honed shortcuts and automated tools, Adobe Press has come up with a guide that shows you how to tap into Photoshop productivity features to streamline your work whatever your level. You’ll be amazed at how much time you can save by taking advantage of Preferences, presets, Actions, scripting, batch processing, keyboard shortcuts, Workspaces, file browsing, the Bridge and more. You'll also learn about new CS2 features that push the creative envelope even further: Image Warping, Vanishing Point, Smart Objects, and more. Simple instructions and images galore make learning easy with this smart, focused guide.

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Photoshop CS2 Killer Tips

Photoshop CS2 Killer Tips

Book Description
Scott Kelby and Felix Nelson (the creative team behind Photoshop User magazine) take their best-selling Photoshop Killer Tips books to a whole new level with their update for Photoshop CS2.Okay, why a book of nothing but tips? Because that's where all the really slick, really useful, and really fun stuff is. It's true! If we're looking through a book and we see the word "Tip" we're all immediately drawn to it, because we know we're about to learn something great. Maybe it's an undocumented keyboard shortcut, a hidden inside secret, or just a faster, better way to do something we do every day. The only problem with the tips in these books is that there are never enough of 'em. That is, until now.That's because this book is packed cover-to-cover, wall-to-wall with nothing but those cool Photoshop CS2 sidebar tips. Every tip is designed to make you work faster, smarter, and have more fun using Photoshop CS2. There are no detailed descriptions of CMYK separation set-ups, or long boring discussions on color management theory. It's just tips--short, sweet, and to the point.But we've done the "tip" idea one better, because every tip has a full-color graphic to make the tips even more accessible, even more fun, and even easier to use. Most importantly, to get in this book they've got to be "Killer Tips." The kind of tip that makes you smile, nod, and then call all your friends and "tune them up" with your new status as Photoshop guru.If you've wondered how the pros get twice the work done in half the time, it's because they know all the tips, and all the tricks.

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The Photoshop Anthology

The Photoshop Anthology

Description :
The Photoshop Anthology is full-color, 101 question-and-answer book for Web Designers who want to use Photoshop to build Waebsites and create better looking web graphics more effectively. The book will show you how you can use Photoshop to create buttons, backgrounds, text effects, optimized photos, web interfaces, animated GIFs and more for your Website. Additionally, the book will walk you through the entire process of designing a Website in Photoshop - from using layers to keep organized to using the slice tool to create individual Website elements.Full DescriptionThe Photoshop Anthology is full-color, question-and-answer book for Web Designers who want to use Photoshop to build Websites and create better looking web graphics more effectively.
The book covers:
* Photoshop interface tricks & shortcuts* Basic Skills: Transparencies, rounded corners, blending images, matching colors and more* Buttons: Creating buttons and tabs in various shapes and form factors* Backgrounds: Making various gradient and textured backgrounds* Creating text effects, texturing and shadowing text, wrapping text around a curve, and more* Adjusting Images: Removing blue tints, darkening and lightening images, fixing red-eye, removing dark shadows, sharpening images and more* Manipulating Images: Creating fish-eye effects, removing imperfections, making product shots for ecommerce and more* Creating Web Interfaces: Best practice & time saving ideas including how-tos on slicing images, creating rollovers, and more* Advanced: Generating thumbnails, animated GIFs, bulk watermarking, sharing Photoshop Actions and more
Additionally, the book will walk you through the entire process of designing a Website in Photoshop - from using layers to keep organized to using the slice tool to create individual Website elements.
Among the 101 Tips, Tricks & Hacks you'll learn how-to:
* Design attractive web graphics* Touch up photographs for web use* Create web site mockups using Photoshop* Improve your digital workflow* Master menus, buttons and background tiles* Use nondestructive editing techniques

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Enhancing CAD Drawings with Photoshop by Scott Onstott

Enhancing CAD Drawings with Photoshop by Scott Onstott

“If you’re an architect looking to get the most out of Photoshop, look no further! Enhancing CAD Drawings with Photoshop is a killer book.”
George Omura, Author, Mastering AutoCAD 2005 and AutoCAD LT 2005
Bring Your CAD Drawings to Life Using Artistic Photoshop Techniques
Most architects find that traditional CAD drawings are not the ideal medium for sharing their visions with clients. For an untrained eye, it’s difficult to imagine a complex design by simply viewing a line drawing. Fortunately, you can use Adobe Photoshop to enliven CAD drawings and improve graphical communications.
Enhancing CAD Drawings with Photoshop is the first book to demonstrate how you can use Photoshop to transform CAD drawings into dynamic, attractive presentational pieces that speak to everyone. First, you’ll master the basic Photoshop concepts and tools. Then you delve into sophisticated illustrating and compositing techniques. Practical tutorials lead you step-by-step through each process, and a full-color insert featuring before-and-after images is certain to inspire you with ideas and solutions. While appealing to the artist in you, this unique book will empower you to win bids and wow clients.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
* Plan your work flow to ensure consistent color printing
* Work in the digital darkroom and hone your retouching skills
* Extract entourage objects from photographs and use them in architectural illustrations, renderings, plans, and elevations
* Enhance your line drawings with color, pattern, gradient, transparency, and shadows
* Dress up basic elevations using Photoshop’s layer style effects, reflection and refraction, and entourage
* Transfer 3D objects from Autodesk VIZ into image layers in Photoshop
* Make objects look realistic using layers and clipping groups
* Transform 3D models into pencil sketches, watercolors, and paintings
* Share your digital work with your clients via prints, e-mail, the Web, and slideshows
* Protect and catalog your intellectual property

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Photoshop CS2 Before & After Makeovers

Photoshop CS2 Before & After Makeovers Free Download
Meet the Author
Dr. Taz Tally is President of Taz Tally Seminars, a computer publishing, consulting, and training company. He is the author of numerous books — including Photoshop CS2 Before & After Makeovers, Acrobat and PDF Solutions, Avoiding the Output Blues, Avoiding the Scanning Blues (a Doubleday Book Club featured selection), The UMAX MagicScan Manual, and SilverFast: The Official Guide — and he served as a contributing author to The Photoshop World Dream Team Book. He has produced numerous instructional videos, CDs, and DVDs on scanning images, prepress issues, Photoshop, color correction, font man-I agement, and keyboard shortcuts, and was the instructor for the video train-I ing series DeskTop to Print. A frequent presenter at seminars and trade shows throughout the U.S., Taz is also a member of the Photoshop Dream Team — mainstays at the biannual Photoshop World conventions. He is also a frequent contributor to Photoshop User magazine, for which he writes a regular prepress column.

When he is not touring the country presenting his seminars, Taz generally heads off to the outdoors. One of those outdoor places he especially enjoys is his home in glorious Homer, Alaska, where he revels in moun­tain biking, kayaking and hiking, Nordic skiing, and nature photography with his Cardigan-Welsh-Corgi Zip. Taz has also been sighted skiing the powder snows in Utah, diving with the whales in the waters off of Hawaii, and prowling the terrains of the desert Southwest and Mexico.
Author’s Acknowledgments
A project like the Photoshop CS2 Before & After Makeovers book you hold in your hands is never accomplished by one person alone, so it’s no surprise that I have many people to thank for their critical help. First, I’d like to thank my agent, Matt Wagner of Fresh-Books, who was the spark plug for this project — I have him to thank for bringing me together with the Wiley team. I have come to value Matt’s insights and guidance very much. Matt . . . here’s hoping for many more projects together! Next, I’d like to tell Paul Levesque, the very capable project editor for this title, what a joy he has been to work with. As we put this project together, Paul was not only pleasant and capable, but also a good partner who was willing to work together to meet the various challenges that inevitably arise when tackling any new, from-scratch project . . . thanks, Paul! If this book is easy to read and understand, we can all credit Barry Childs-Helton, the gifted copy editor, who took my often contorted text and reworked it into far more readable and enjoyable prose. I also want to highlight Dave Herman, the tech reviewer, for not only making sure that I was accurate and consistent, but for providing many good content suggestions as well . . . this book is greatly improved from Dave’s additions. I also want to thank the Wiley design team for their initial design work and also their on-the-fly redesigns as this project evolved . . . armfuls of kudos to you! And of course credit for overall project man­agement goes to Bob Woerner, Wiley’s truly gifted acquisitions editor.

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Photoshop Elements 3 for Dummies

photoshop Elements 3 for Dummies Books Free Download

About the Authors
Deke McClelland wrote the Photoshop Bible and Photoshop Bible, Professional Edition (both published by Wiley), bestselling guides on digital imaging. He has written 76 titles in 25 languages with 3 million copies in print, including Photoshop For Dummies (published by Wiley) and the tutorial-based Adobe Photoshop One-on-One (published by O’Reilly/Deke Press). In addition to his books, Deke hosts the video training series Total Training for Adobe Photoshop and Total Training Presents: Adobe Photoshop Elements (published by Total Training). One of the most award-winning writers in the business, Deke has received seven honors from the Computer Press Association. In 2002, he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

Galen Fott contributed to two editions of Deke’s Photoshop Bible and to Adobe InDesign CS One-on-One (O’Reilly/Deke Press). He has also written for Macworld and PC Magazine. Galen created and hosted Total Training for Mac OS X, co-hosted Total Training for Adobe Premiere 6, and presented more than two hours of Photoshop training for the Apple Web site (all pub­lished by Total Training). In his theoretical spare time, Galen is involved in a number of other pursuits. As an animator, he has worked for AT&T and Paramount. As a performer, he has played leading roles in musicals across the country. As a puppeteer, he has performed with the Jim Henson Company. Those with piqued interest can visit his Web site at www.grundoon.com.

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Commercial Photoshop Retouching

Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio by Glenn Honiball

Publisher: O'Reilly Media (August 22, 2005) ISBN: 059600849X CHM 6 Mb 257 pages

For both Mac and Windows PC users, Photoshop CS2 is the market leader and industry standard for commercial bitmap image manipulation. Also known as the "digital dark room," Photoshop is the unparalleled tool of choice among graphics professionals and hobby photographers alike.
Written by 20-year photo retouching veteran Glenn Honiball, Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio is the only book to deliver advice for the photographer and artist working with Photoshop CS 2 in a real world commercial environment. Honiball offers incomparable technical and artistic guidance for professionals, graphic artists, photographers, and just about anyone involved in creating and manipulating digital images.

Production artists face unrealistically tight deadlines and heavy workloads that leave little time for trial and error. Photo retouchers need practical, immediate Photoshop solutions to help them produce quality images with minimal effort and in a short amount of time. All the tools, techniques, and skills you need to achieve consistent, professional results with Photoshop CS2 can be found in Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio.
Anyone with intermediate-to-advanced Photoshop skills - whether you want to explore photo retouching personally or as an imaging professional or student--can use Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio to produce sharp, expert, extraordinary photos that don't look retouched.
Under Honibell's seasoned direction, you'll be able to tackle your greatest photo-retouching challenges with ease, precision and efficiency. He guides you through Photoshop CS2's new and innovative features; explains advanced capabilities; shows you how to adapt and custom-fit the software to meet your needs; offers time-saving tips for accelerating your workflow; and delivers advice and inspiration for exercising your own creative genius.
Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio is the ideal resource for any digital artist who wants to develop and perfect professional-level retouching using Photoshop CS 2. With this book, you will bring photo correction and manipulation to a whole new level.
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Web Designers Guide to Adobe Photoshop

Web Designers Guide to Adobe Photoshop book free download

Product Details
* Paperback: 400 pages
* Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc. (February 25, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1598220012
* ISBN-13: 978-1598220018
* Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches

Product Description
Web Designer's Guide to Adobe Photoshop covers these topics and more. A one-stop source of web-specific production methods necessary to create well-designed, functional, and aesthetically pleasing web pages, this book provides readers with real how-to information on web design. You'll learn to build buttons, logos, web headers, and other web graphics, pull them into a web editing program, and even go live with your masterpiece. Whether you goal is to expand your professional skills or simply handle your local club's web site, Web Designer's Guide to Adobe Photoshop will help you create web pages and get them working properly.

Chris Tull, «Web Designer's Guide to Adobe Photoshop»
Wordware Publishing | ISBN 1598220012 | 2006 Year | CHM | 11.3 Mb | 400 Pages

While Adobe Photoshop is the standard application for editing images for print, its powerful features also make it useful for editing images placed on the Internet. Web Designer's Guide to Adobe Photoshop goes beyond an explanation of creating and editing images by focusing on the next step in web development: placing images and graphics into working web pages. Whether your goal is to expand your professional skills or simply handle your local club's website, this book will help you not only create web pages but also get them working properly on the World Wide Web.

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Photoshop CS3 for Forensics Professionals

Photoshop CS3 for Forensics Professionals: A Complete Digital Imaging Course for Investigators by George Reis

Sybex (July 30, 2007) ISBN 0470114541 252 Pages PDF 10 Mb

Digital imaging technology has been used in forensics since at least 1992, yet until now there? has been? no practical instruction available to address the unique issues of image processing in an everyday forensic environment. Photoshop CS3 for Forensics Professionals serves the everyday, real-world needs of law enforcement and legal personnel dealing with digital images (including both photos and video stills). This book is an excellent tool for: Law enforcement personnel, from crime scene and arson investigators, detectives, and patrol officers to forensic photographers, fingerprint examiners, video analysts, tool mark and footwear examiners, and criminalists.

Security pros in such fields as private investigation, insurance, fraud detection, and loss prevention.
Scientific and technical users of Photoshop with workflows similar to law enforcement, such as medical photographers, research imaging experts, engineering and architecture staff, and industrial photographers.
Staff responsible for maintaining a photo archive or printing images for court.
Photoshop CS3 for Forensics Professionals is the only book to provide forensics professionals with specific answers to their imaging questions. This is the perfect resource for those who want to move from simple theory to the essential skills needed to be more effective. This resource is dividied into three parts:
Part I: The Essentials is about setting up your workflow, archiving your images, and familiarizing yourself with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Bridge, including the setting up of preferences. Also covered are the best practices in writing reports and providing courtroom testimony.
Part II: The Digital Darkroom teaches how to use Photoshop to accomplish what traditionally was done in the darkroom, from correcting color casts to making prints and exhibits for courtroom use.
Part III: Image Analysis & Enhancement covers techniques for clarifying images so that details can be better viewed and used for analysis or comparison, from contrast enhancement and pattern removal to even forensic video analysis.
Order this one-of-a-kind resource today!

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1000 Photoshop Tricks

1000 PhotoShop Tricks

Worth 1000 Photoshop Tricks is one of the best books you can have about photoshop, written by an expert designer.
Description: This book contains 1000 cool photoshop effects and tutorials. Pictures are included along the way, along with descriptive explanations of each step.

- Motion Pictures
- Turning a Character Into a Puppet
- Out of Bounds
- Creating Rain
- Creating a Wormhole
- Creating Fur
- Motion Tweens and Guides [Flash]
- Making Graffiti
- Turning a Character Into a Zombie
- Perspective
- Gender Blending
- Face Swapping
- Tattoos
- Displacement Maps and Textures
And many, many more!

Worth 1000 Photoshop Tricks
Author(s): Lokale Schijf
Pages: 326
Size: 29 MB
File Format: PDF

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Mastering Photoshop CS3 for Print Design and Production

Mastering Photoshop CS3 for Print Design and Production by Ted LoCascio

Sybex ISBN: 0470114576 July 17, 2007 573 pages PDF 39 Mb

Unlike the early days of Photoshop, for several years now most Photoshop books have been aimed at photographers; there is a big hole on the bookstore shelf that needs to be filled by a Photoshop book that is geared specifically towards graphic design professionals and production artists. This core audience should not have to wade through useless chapters of content geared towards other users of the application, namely professional photographers, web designers, and video editors.
Mastering Photoshop for Print Design and Production sets graphic designers and production artists in the right direction when implementing the latest version of Photoshop into their everyday workflow. It demonstrates how to use Photoshop for all aspects of print, from simpler tasks such as basic color correction and masking, to more advanced tasks such as color management, utilizing layer comps, and troubleshooting and automating RGB-to-CMYK color conversion.

Entirely four-color throughout, Mastering Photoshop for Print Design and Production fulfills the promise of the Mastering series, to provide real-world skills to professionals and students. Like all Mastering books, this one includes:
* A "by pros for pros" approach: The author is an active professional working in graphic arts, layout, and design, writing for professionals who want to improve their skills or learn new skills.
* Real-world examples: Running throughout the text are examples of how the various skills are applied in scenarios faced by real practitioners.
* Skill-based teaching and hands-on exercises.

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Adobe Photoshop Unmasked

Adobe Photoshop Unmasked

Adobe Photoshop Unmasked The Art and Science of Selections, Layers, and Paths
Product Description As the feature list of Adobe Photoshop continues to grow, even users with years of experience can feel overwhelmed by the many tools and methods for selecting or isolating parts of an image. Layers, channels, paths, clipping masks, layer masks, vector masks, the Pen tool, Magic Wand, and so on — all let users work on specific regions of an image, but in fundamentally different ways. Making clean, efficient selections are essential skills for any Photoshop user, whether a graphic designer, professional photographer, or hobbyist. Paperback: 264 pages Publisher: Adobe Press; 1 edition (November 5, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0321441206 ISBN-13: 978-0321441201

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The Adobe Photoshop Layers Book

The Adobe Photoshop Layers Book: Harnessing Photoshop's Most Powerful

Tool, covers Photoshop CS3
July 30, 2007 | 284pag | PDF | 30 Mb | RS & FB

As a "collectionner" of the best Photoshop books on the market I must recommend this excellent book from Richard Lynch to all the digital photographers among us.Other reviewers explained the content of the book in detail so I won't do the same,I can only agree their comments!
This book is not for beginners, but if you want to understand how "digital photography" sees the real world and how a camera or a scanner tranlate all what you see in the digital format then this book is for you.
Lynch is a real PRO and takes the patience to explain ALL the hidden secrets behind this tremendous Adobe's software.
This is a cheap investment for YEARS believe me; you'll learn on your own pace the multiple facets of "seeing images" like a photographer and by following the exercises and explanations of the 11 chapters (take your time to re-read from time to time and practice,practice…)you NEVER take photos the same way you did before!
The greatest bonus is the companion cd with all the hidden tools(above 100 and the images used in the book).
Richard Lynch has given us an enormous homework to do but it's worth more than any training course that costs you a hundred of bucks!
Terrific,awesome,well explained,I can't find words enough to recommend this book.

* Leverage layer power to correct and enhance color, fix problems in composition, repair damage or flaws, and isolate image areas for changes, adjustments and experimental concepts
* Incorporate layers in a workflow that extracts the maximum from your camera, exploits the potential in every image and helps you organize your perceptions and ideas according to your unique vision
* Recombine layers to form new images in a nondestructive process that preserves both the original image and intermediate layers for further editing - or tomorrow's inspirations

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Photoshop CS3 Layers Bible

Photoshop CS3 Layers Bible

761 pages Wiley October 29, 2007 ISBN-10: 0470082119 PDF 22MB
Get the most out of Photoshop Layers with this in-depth guide.

Creative professionals know how to tap Photoshop CS3's Layers to achieve spectacular results, and now you can learn their secrets in this comprehensive book. How do you combine layers and masks? What's the best way to work with Web images? From the newest CS3 features to successful layering strategies, you'll discover the professional techniques and hands-on examples you need to succeed.

Create composites that make an impact
Add depth and dimension with layer blend modes
Retouch with layers and get unlimited Undos
Work with Smart Objects and organize your workflow
Create great-looking, quick-loading Web images

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How To Cheat In Photoshop Elements 6 Book Free Download

How To Cheat In Photoshop Elements 6 Book Free Download

Free EBOOK Details
Publisher Focal Press
Release Date December 17, 2007
ISBN 0240520831

Book Description
Full of quirky tips and tricks for fun and creative image manipulation in Elements!

Product Description
How to Cheat in Elements 6 is an invaluable resource for all users of Photoshop Elements and shows you how to 'cheat' by sharing insider secrets from clever and cunning Elements gurus, David Asch and series forerunner, Steve Caplin.

Compatible with previous releases of Elements, this is jam packed with dazzling tips and tricks, unearthed secrets, and creative techniques that challenge and inspire.

Work through each section to build up your Photoshop Elements skills, creating everything from basic layer and masking effects right up to advanced manipulation. Or just dip right into a project to learn a new technique:
* turn day into night
* add snow, shadows and water to your scenes
* make fire and smoke
* give your car a respray
...if you can imagine it, we can show you how to do it in Photoshop Elements!

A full glossary of terms, useful keyboard shortcuts, and a detailed index will help you locate that fantastic technique in a flash. Follow the QuickTime movie tutorials on the CD, and use the high resolution royalty free images in your own creations . you can also ask questions, solve problems and meet other Elements users in the book's dedicated website, http://www.howtocheatinphotoshopelements.com

Once you have mastered the techniques in this book - the only limit is your imagination!

David Asch is a freelance author and journalist specializing in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements image editing and manipulation.

Steve Caplin is a graphic artist, illustrator, and journalist who loves to create photomontages that blur the line between illusion and reality.

Note: Having trouble with the DVD? Visit http://www.howtocheatinphotoshopelements.com where you can find a link to download updated versions of the video files.

Work through each section to build up your Photoshop Elements skills, creating everything from basic layer and masking effects right up to advanced manipulation. Or just dip right into a project to learn a new technique:
* turn day into night
* add snow, shadows and water to your scenes
* make fire and smoke
* give your car a respray
.if you can imagine it, we can show you how to do it in Photoshop Elements!

About the Author
He is a beta tester for Photoshop Elements. He contributes to Mac Format magazine, and is co-author of Digital Photo Doctor and contributing author to Drop Dead Photography Techniques.

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Photoshop CS3 top 100 simplified tips & tricks

Photoshop CS3 top 100 simplified tips & tricks

Digital Photography
Visual | 2005-08-15 | ISBN: 0764596160 | 240 pages | PDF | 29,3 MB
Description:
ou already know Photoshop CS3 basics. Now you'd like to go beyond with shortcuts, tricks, and tips that let you work smarter and faster. And because you learn more easily when someone shows you how, this is the book for you. Inside, you'll find clear, illustrated instructions for 100 tasks that reveal cool secrets, teach timesaving tricks, and explain great tips guaranteed to make you more productive with Photoshop CS3.

Organized into 10 chapters, with 10 tasks per chapter, this book provides the time-saving tips, cool secrets, and productivity tricks to help take a reader’s knowledge of digital photography beyond the basics. Full-color screen shots and numbered, step-by-step instructions show readers how to save time and boost productivity. InfoTrends Research Group says Digital camera unit sales will grow from 6.7 million in 2000 to 42 million in 2005, while worldwide revenue from digital camera sales is expected to reach $11.8 billion by 2007 with unit sales surpassing the 18.7 million mark.

Photoshop?: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks provides adventurous Photoshop users with a visual reference on how to use the bells and whistles found in the latest version of Photoshop. Broken out in 10 chapters, with 10 tasks per chapter, Photoshop?: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks covers 100 cool and useful tips and tricks that can be performed in the newest release of Photoshop. Full-color screen shots and numbered, step-by-step instructions show you how to take their Photoshop skills to new heights. Order the latest edition today and make your pictures pop.

* Minimal text and maximum illustrations
* Task-oriented, step-by-step approach
* Navigational aids connect instructions to illustrations
* Self-contained, two-page lessons
* Uniform layout makes it easy to read less, learn more How easy is
it?
* Look for these symbols marking the difficulty of each task.
* Demonstrates a new spin on a common task
* Introduces a new skill or a new task
* Combines multiple skills requiring in-depth knowledge
* Requires extensive skill and may involve other technologies

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