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]

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 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.

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.

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.

The most comprehensive guide to Photoshop, fully updated to cover all new features

Master Adobe Photoshop CS4 Filled with full-color examples, this hands-on guide explains how to use the latest release of the industry standard program for graphics professionals. How to Do Everything: Adobe Photoshop CS4 takes you step-by-step through the process of bringing your creative concepts to completion. Real-world examples reveal how cutting-edge design techniques are achieved. With this book, you'll learn how to use all the program's tools and settings to create and edit compelling images for print, the Web, and animation. Manage and customize the interface Create, manage, and blend layers and apply layer styles Work with color, brushes, painting tools, gradients, and vector shapes Pick pixels with selections Edit, repair, and enhance images and Camera Raw files Transform objects without degrading image quality Create and format text Use the 3D and video features of Photoshop Extended Apply special effects with filters, warping, and textures Optimize your work for print, the Web, and mobile devices Save time using automation tools