Book description
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does -- an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book (2021 release) contains 15 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book’s “Getting Started” section to unlock access to:
Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book
Web Edition containing the complete text of the book
What you need to use this book: Adobe Photoshop (2021 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)
Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe Photoshop software.
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 Cloud Documents
- Using the Magic Wand tool
- Using the Quick Selection tool
- Moving a selected area
- Using the Object Selection tool
- Manipulating selections
- 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. Exploring Neural Filters
- Appendix: Tools panel overview
- Appendix: Keyboard shortcuts
- Index
- Production Notes
Product information
- Title: Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book (2021 release)
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2020
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780136904670
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