Book description
Build your Photoshop expertise, one technique at a time
Why spend time searching through a thick reference book when you
can focus on the essential techniques? In Adobe Photoshop CS4
How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, author Chris Orwig brings you
the best techniques to quickly organize and correct your digital
images using the world’s most
powerful photo-editing program. Complete with illustrations and
practical tips, these bite-size lessons from Chris’s
experience as a photographer and instructor provide just the
information you need. You can explore the program at your own pace,
spending less time at your computer and more time behind the lens
taking great pictures.
• Discover the Application bar [#4]
• Work with and arrange multiple documents [#8]
• Use the Photo Downloader in Adobe Bridge [#24]
• Make localized nondestructive adjustments with Camera Raw
[#38]
• Set highlight and shadow target values using Curves
[#69]
• Adjust tones with the Dodge and Burn tools while protecting
values [#77]
• Create a layer mask[#78]
• Retouch portraits to improve eyes [#86]
• Create Web galleries to share your images [#97]
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Chapter One. Getting Started
- Chapter Two. Working with Digital Image Files
- Chapter Three. Using Adobe Bridge
- Chapter Four. Using Photoshop Camera Raw
- Chapter Five. Working with Layers
- Chapter Six. Making Selections
- Chapter Seven. Using Blending Modes
- Chapter Eight. Using Filters
- Chapter Nine. Modifying Color and Tone
- Chapter Ten. Masking
- Chapter Eleven. Retouching Portraits
- Chapter Twelve. Working with Type
- Chapter Thirteen. Sharpening Images
- Chapter Fourteen. Output
- Index
Product information
- Title: Adobe
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2008
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: None
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