Book description
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most
comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop CS6 choose Adobe
Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at
Adobe Press. The 14 project-based lessons in this book show readers
step-by-step the key techniques for working in Photoshop CS6 and
how to manipulate images, edit motion-based content, and create
image composites.
In addition to learning the key elements of the Photoshop
interface, this completely revised CS6 edition covers new features,
including precise cropping with multiple overlays, expanded
content-aware toolkit with skin tone-aware selections and masking,
three new blur effects, re-engineered design tools, adaptive Wide
Angle adjustments, improved Camera Raw engine, improved auto
corrections, Background Save and Auto-recovery, modernized user
interface, intuitive video enhancements, simplified 3D interface,
improved editing speed with real-time results, and more.
In addition to the lesson files, the companion DVD will feature 2
hours of free video tutorials from Adobe Photoshop CS6: Learn by
Video by Adobe Press and video2brain, a great added value!
“The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training
material on the market. Everything you need to master the software
is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step
instructions, and the project files for the students.”
—Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain
Training
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on
software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe
software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no
other book or training program does—an official training
series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support
of Adobe product experts.
**Breaking News! Adobe has released an update to Photoshop
offering new features for Creative Cloud customers including Retina
Display Support, Smart Object support for Blur Gallery and Liquify,
powerful CSS support for web design, workflow improvements,
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Ebook Readers: Find Your 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
- Getting started
- Adjusting the color in Camera Raw
- Straightening and cropping the image in Photoshop
- Replacing colors in an image
- Adjusting saturation with the Sponge tool
- Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool
- Using the Spot Healing Brush tool
- Applying a content-aware patch
- Applying the Unsharp Mask filter
- Saving the image for four-color printing
- 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
- Cropping an image and erasing within a selection
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 4. Layer Basics
- 5. Correcting and Enhancing Digital Photographs
- 6. Masks and Channels
- 7. Typographic Design
- 8. Vector Drawing Techniques
- 9. Advanced Compositing
- 10. Editing Video
- 11. Painting with the Mixer Brush
- 12. Working with 3D Images
- 13. Preparing Files for the Web
- 14. Producing and Printing Consistent Color
- Index
- Production Notes
- Learn by Video
- Where are the Lesson Files?
Product information
- Title: Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 Classroom in a Book®: The official training workbook from Adobe Systems
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2012
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780321827333
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