Book description
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop choose Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2019 release) from Adobe Press. The 15 project-based lessons show key step-by-step techniques for working in Photoshop, including how to correct, enhance, and distort digital images, create image composites, and prepare images for print and the web.
In addition to learning the essential elements of the Photoshop interface, this revised edition for the 2019 release covers features like the new Frame tool, designing reflected and radial art with Paint Symmetry, correcting mistakes with updated Undo, Navigating the redesigned Home screen, removing objects with upgraded Content-Aware Fill, saving time with simplified editing and transformations, and much more!
The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter. All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: A Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and multiple-choice quizzes.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Where are the Lesson Files?
- Contents
- Getting Started
- 1 Getting to Know the Work Area
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2 Basic Photo Corrections
- Strategy for retouching
- Resolution and image size
- Opening a file with Adobe Bridge
- Straightening and cropping the image in Photoshop
- Adjusting the color and tone
- Using the Spot Healing Brush tool
- Applying a content-aware patch
- Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool
- Sharpening the image
- Review questions
- Review answers
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3 Working with Selections
- About selecting and selection tools
- Getting started
- Using the Quick Selection tool
- Moving a selected area
- Manipulating selections
- Using the Magic Wand tool
- Selecting with the lasso tools
- Rotating a selection
- Selecting with the Magnetic Lasso tool
- Selecting from a center point
- Resizing and copying a selection
- Cropping an image
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 4 Layer Basics
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5 Quick Fixes
- Getting started
- Improving a snapshot
- Adjusting facial features with Liquify
- Blurring a background
- Creating a panorama
- Filling empty areas when cropping
- Correcting image distortion
- Extending depth of field
- Removing objects using Content-Aware Fill
- Adjusting perspective in an image
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 6 Masks and Channels
- 7 Typographic Design
- 8 Vector Drawing Techniques
- 9 Advanced Compositing
- 10 Painting with the Mixer Brush
- 11 Editing Video
- 12 Working with Camera Raw
- 13 Preparing Files for the Web
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14 Producing and Printing Consistent Color
- Preparing files for printing
- Getting started
- Performing a “zoom test”
- About color management
- Specifying color-management settings
- Identifying out-of-gamut colors
- Proofing document colors on a monitor
- Bringing colors into the output gamut
- Converting an image to CMYK
- Saving the image as a CMYK EPS file
- Printing a CMYK image from Photoshop
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 15 Printing 3D Files
- Appendix: Tools panel overview
- Appendix: Keyboard shortcuts
- Index
- Production Notes
Product information
- Title: Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2018
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780135285275
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