By Eddie Tapp
First Edition
August 2006
Pages: 207
ISBN 10: 0-596-10168-6 |
ISBN 13: 9780596101688
Adobe Photoshop has so many different work areas and tools that it can become confusing or even intimidating for digital photographers to use in a production environment. This first book in our new series on digital photography offers a step-by-step approach to Photoshop's vast collection of menus, palettes, and tools, showing you not only how they work, but how they should work for your specific needs in a visually uncluttered workspace.
Full Description
Leery of 800-page books that try to teach you everything about digital photography? You should be. Rather than delve into the nuances of efficient workflow, color management, or creating spectacular enhancements, these doorstop volumes tend to gloss over key information in an attempt to cover everything.
Our new book series, Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography, is different. An award-winning photographer, Eddie is acknowledged as one of the premier trainers of digital imaging in the world, a highly sought-after expert who educates many corporations, studios and agencies. In this series, he brings his teaching experience to bear on technical issues in six focused and affordable books on digital photography that offer one topic per volume with answers that are quick to find when you need them most.
The first book, Photoshop Workflow Setups: Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography, offers a step-by-step approach for configuring key areas of Adobe Photoshop CS2 to create an efficient, visually uncluttered workspace. Photoshop has so many different work areas and tools that it can become confusing or even intimidating for digital photographers to use in a production environment-whether you're a serious amateur or a working professional.
This highly-visual, well-designed book presents Photoshop's vast collection of menus, palettes, and tools, showing you not only how they work, but how they should work for you and your specific needs. With his easygoing and authoritative style, Eddie demonstrates how to:
- Create an efficient workspace by using the "arrange" menu and setting the screen view
- Become familiar with palettes for layers, channels and paths; history and actions; color, swatches and styles; and more
- Set preferences for file handling, guides and grids, memory and image cache, and more
- Customize keyboard shortcuts and menus
- Work with Adobe Bridge
- Use Photoshop's selection, painting, graphics, and vector tools, among others
In addition to this title, Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography will also focus on color management; advanced and professional production techniques; controlling digital color and tone; and creative enhancement techniques. We're thrilled that Eddie Tapp has finally agreed to publish books-and with O'Reilly.
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"Eddie makes some of the most complex concepts understandable. His easy-going style, mixed with his years of real world experience, make him one of the top trainers in the industry today."
-- Scott Kelby, President, Nat'l Association of Photoshop Professionals
"It's so great to learn from a Photoshop expert who's a photographer, himself, and who knows exactly what photographers need to learn. Eddie Tapp gets right to the heart of each new Photoshop upgrade and teaches us in a way that we can all understand and grasp. Eddie's my guru, my shining star. I credit everything that I do in Photoshop to what he's taught me. I'll never stop learning...and I'll never stop learning from him. What a joy to be teaching together with the one person who can talk to each photographer and have him grasp what he's showing....regardless of what level of expertise you have with the Photoshop program."
-- Monte Zucker, Photographer and Photographic Educator
"Writing a book about Photoshop is no easy task and only an expert user like Tapp with a conscious awareness of what students and professionals need to know when using the program can write a useful book such as this. Photoshop Workflow Setups is a very manageable book that can be referenced easily and will no doubt help novice and intermediate users make some significant inroads into this popular and powerful program."
-- Bakari Chavanu, MyMac.com
