The Focal Easy Guide to Photoshop CS2 [antikvár]

i . 11 T. 'f .; The Focal Easy Guide Series Focal Easy Guides are the best choice to get you started with new software, whatever your level. Refreshingly sinnple, they do not attempt to cover everything, focusing solely on the essentials needed to get immediate results. Ideal if you need to learn a new software package quickly, the Focal Easy Guides offer an effective, time-saving introduction to the key tools, not hundreds of pages of confusing reference material. The emphasis is on quickly getting to grips with the software in a practical and accessible way to achieve professional results. Highly illustrated in color, explanations are short and to the point. Written by professionals in a user-friendly style, the guides assume some computer knowledge and an understanding of the general concepts in the area covered, ensuring they aren't patronizing! THE FOCAL EASY GUIDE TO PHOTOSHOP CS2 Digital technology is fundamentally changing the realm of photography and printing. Photographers now have almost unlimited options for editing their images to the precise look that they intend. Printing has become infinitely more flexible and pushed closer to the image creator. We can now use images in almost any form of visual communication. They have become a key element of the information revolution. This added flexibility brings more and more attention to the process of editing images. Adobe® Photoshop® is the essential tool for visual imaging. There are other simpler programs on the market, but most don't provide the essential tools for editing images accurately Photoshop is a very comprehensive program - probably the most complex program I have ever used. My goal is to present Photoshop in an accessible way. Even though Photoshop provides thousands of complex techniques for editing images, most users and most images don't need all this complexity In fact, you only need to do a few basic steps in Photoshop to get the vast majority of images to shine. In this book, I introduce you to the basic step-by-step process I use on most of my images. This includes steps for editing density contrast, and color plus basic techniques for image processing like converting images from color to black and white and sharpening images. My workflow is complete, but I do not include many of the more complex and esoteric techniques common to the Photoshop marketplace. Take a quick look at the chapters of this book. They include the basic workflow for editing images: opening digital camera images, cleaning up images, basic adjustments, local adjustments, photographic processes, printing, and output to the web. They also include some Photoshop lessons (layers and masks, elements of the interface, and some special features) and lots of image editing techniques. If this seems sufficient for your work, let's get working. Who Should Use this Book This book is for people who want to learn the basic tools and image editing steps within Photoshop needed to create professional looking images. This, of course, includes photographers, and graphics designers, but also a wide range of technicians and office workers who just want to do more effective image editing. This book's focus is to provide insight into the how-to's of creating good