Photoshop CS All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Barbara Obermeier

John Wiley & Sons, Dec 4, 2003 - Computers - 840 pages

• The complete For Dummies Photoshop resource-ten minibooks with more than 800 pages of tips, techniques, and plain-English explanations
• Covers Photoshop fundamentals, image essentials, selections, painting, drawing and typing, working with layers, channels and masks, filters and distortions, retouching and restoration, Photoshop and the Web, and Photoshop and print
• Explains how to create and manage layers, use channels and masks, make corrections with filters, fix flaws and imperfections, and much more
• Updated and revised throughout for Photoshop "X," which Adobe expects to release in Fall 2003
• Features sixteen pages of full-color examples
• Written by veteran For Dummies author Barbara Obermeier, a leading design and graphics author

Contents

• About This Book: 1
• Book I Photoshop Fundamentals: 7
• Book II Image Essentials: 117
• Book III Selections: 217
• Book IV Painting Drawing and Typing: 283
• Book V Working with Layers: 369
• Book VI Channels and Masks: 457
• Book VII Filters and Distortions: 513
• Book VIII Retouching and Restoration: 579
• Book IX Photoshop and theWeb: 643
• Book X Photoshop and Print: 705
• Appendix A Working with Digital Cameras and Scanners: 749
• Appendix B A Visual Reference of Photoshop Tools: 759
• Index: 775

About the author

Barbara Obermeier (Ventura, CA) is principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in California. The author of Photoshop 7 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies and Adobe Master Class: Illustrator Illuminated (Peachpit) and co-author of several Dummies books including Photoshop 7 For Dummies, Illustrator 10 For Dummies, and CorelDRAW 9 For Dummies. She has contributed as a writer, technical editor, or layout designer for 16 books. Barb also teaches computer graphics at Ventura College and the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Photoshop CS All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies; For Dummies
• Author: Barbara Obermeier
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003
• ISBN: 0764559192, 9780764559198
• Length: 840 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Image Processing; Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General