Photoshop CS6 is truly amazing, but it can also be overwhelming if you’re just getting started. This book makes learning Photoshop a breeze by explaining things in a friendly, conversational style—without technical jargon. After a thorough introduction to the program, you’ll delve deep into Photoshop’s secrets with expert tips and practical advice you can use every day. The important stuff you need to know: Learn your way around. Get a guided tour of Photoshop’s beautiful new workspace. Unlock the magic. Discover the most practical ways to use layers, channels, masks, paths, and other tools. Fine-tune your images. Learn techniques for cropping, retouching, and combining photos. Play with color. Drain, change, and add color; and create gorgeous black-and-whites and duotones. Be artistic. Create original illustrations and paintings, use text and filters effectively, and edit video clips. Share your work. Produce great-looking images for print and the Web. Work smarter and faster. Automate common chores and install plug-ins for complex tasks.

The perfect primer for learning Adobe Photoshop, whether you're new to it or updating your skills Create logos, edit images, and design without fear in Adobe Photoshop, once you learn the essentials. This clear, task-based book covers them all, from navigating the user interface to how to identify design elements, paint and draw in Photoshop, apply layer styles, correct and adjust color, and much more. Each chapter provides clear step-by-step instruction as well as illustrative, full-color images and examples. Before you know it, you'll have the skills to start a design career with Photoshop. What's more, if you're preparing for the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exam for Visual Communication using Photoshop, this thorough guide is the perfect preparation. Covers Photoshop essentials for beginners and assists ACA candidates preparing for the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) for Visual Communication using Photoshop certification exam Explores how to identify design elements, paint and draw in Photoshop, apply layer styles, correct and adjust color, and more Covers the five basic areas required for the ACA Photoshop exam, including setting project requirements, identifying design elements when preparing elements, understanding Adobe Photoshop, manipulating images, and evaluating digital images Provides downloadable files that readers can use while going through the tutorials in the book

Provides information on the features of Adobe Photoshop CS6 along with one hundred exercises covering such topics as managing layers, using the perspective tool, and working with the 3D interface.

Written by two recognized Adobe Photoshop Ambassadors, this book-and-DVD package cuts through the complexities of Photoshop to deliver essential, clear guidance on how to get the best results. Fully updated with the latest CS4 features, it also contains vital information on how to optimize users' photography and digital imaging workflow.

Photoshop is the photo editing and image processing tool par excellence. With this manual you will learn how to take advantage of the many tools and functions. In this new CS6 version of Photoshop, which is the talking point of this book, Adobe has included interesting and groundbreaking developments that improve and facilitate the flow of work and increase image editing possibilities. Using this book: · you will get to know the new crop in perspective tool. · you will retouch images with incredible features such as fill according to content and the new Content-Aware Patch tool. · you will freely transform certain parts of an image. · you will manage the layers of your documents more easily with the improvements that have been made in the Layers panel. · you will work on a new and spectacular three-dimensional interface to achieve the best 3D effects.

A guide to using Adobe Photoshop CS6 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.

Photoshop is the program for retouching photographs and image processing par excellence. With the help of this manual you will learn how to use the different tools, filters and functions in order to improve the appearance of your digital photos and create amazing compositions. Using this book: Learn how to correct typical defects in photographs taken by inexperienced photographers (overexposure, underexposure, blurs, keystoning, etc.). Practice using the new crop tools and the duplication of elements called Crop in perspective and Content-Aware Move. Discover simple but extraordinary techniques to retouch small defects in portraits of people (dark circles, flaws, wrinkles, etc.). Learn how to remove people and objects by replacing the deleted item which has an integrated content with the background of the image and extract people and objects to carry out photomontages with other photographs. o learn how to properly apply the different filters (among which the new blur filters Field blur, Iris blur and Tilt-Shift can be found) in order to obtain fantastic effects on your photos.