Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual

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Photoshop CS6 is truly amazing, but it can also be overwhelming if you’re just getting started. This book makes learning Photoshop a breeze by explaining things in a friendly, conversational style—without technical jargon. After a thorough introduction to the program, you’ll delve deep into Photoshop’s secrets with expert tips and practical advice you can use every day.

The important stuff you need to know:

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Overview

Photoshop CS6 is truly amazing, but it can also be overwhelming if you’re just getting started. This book makes learning Photoshop a breeze by explaining things in a friendly, conversational style—without technical jargon. After a thorough introduction to the program, you’ll delve deep into Photoshop’s secrets with expert tips and practical advice you can use every day.

The important stuff you need to know:

  • Learn your way around. Get a guided tour of Photoshop’s beautiful new workspace.
  • Unlock the magic. Discover the most practical ways to use layers, channels, masks, paths, and other tools.
  • Fine-tune your images. Learn techniques for cropping, retouching, and combining photos.
  • Play with color. Drain, change, and add color; and create gorgeous black-and-whites and duotones.
  • Be artistic. Create original illustrations and paintings, use text and filters effectively, and edit video clips.
  • Share your work. Produce great-looking images for print and the Web.
  • Work smarter and faster. Automate common chores and install plug-ins for complex tasks.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781449316150
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 5/24/2012
  • Pages: 862
  • Sales rank: 67,260
  • Product dimensions: 6.90 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Lesa Snider is on a mission to teach the world to create—and use!—better graphics. She’s an internationally acclaimed speaker; stock photographer and chief evangelist for iStockphoto.com (www.lesa.in/istockdeal ); as well as the founder of the creative tutorial site PhotoLesa.com. Lesa is the author of many video-training workshops (www.lesa.in/clvideos) and the coauthor of iPhoto ’11: The Missing Manual. She writes a regular column for Photoshop User, Elements Techniques, and Macworld magazines, and contributes frequently to Design-Tools.com and PlanetPhotoshop.com. Lesa is also a long-time member of the Photoshop World Dream Team of instructors and can be spotted teaching at many other conferences around the globe. She also teaches Advanced Photoshop for the international graphic design school, Sessions.edu. You can connect with her online on Facebook (www.facebook.com/PhotoLesa), YouTube (www.lesa.in/ytvideochannel), Twitter (@PhotoLesa), and www.PhotoLesa.com.

During her free time, you’ll find Lesa carving the twisties on her sportbike, dressed up in her Star Trek best at a sci-fi convention, or hanging with fellow Apple Mac enthusiasts. Lesa is a proud member of the BMWMOA, F800 Riders Club, and the Colorado Mac User Group (www.CoMUG.com) a.k.a. the Boulder Mac Maniacs. Email: lesa@photolesa.com.

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Table of Contents

ForewordThe Missing CreditsIntroductionPart One: The BasicsChapter 1: Photoshop CS6 Guided TourChapter 2: Opening, Viewing, and Saving FilesChapter 3: Layers: The Key to Nondestructive EditingChapter 4: Selections: Choosing What to EditPart Two: Editing ImagesChapter 5: Controlling Color with ChannelsChapter 6: Cropping, Resizing, and RotatingChapter 7: Combining ImagesChapter 8: Draining, Changing, and Adding ColorChapter 9: Correcting Color and LightingChapter 10: Changing Reality: Removing and RepositioningChapter 11: The Art of SharpeningPart Three: The Artistic Side of PhotoshopChapter 12: Painting in PhotoshopChapter 13: Drawing with the Vector ToolsChapter 14: Creating Artistic TextChapter 15: The Wide World of FiltersPart Four: Printing and the WebChapter 16: Photoshop and PrintChapter 17: Photoshop and the WebPart Five: Photoshop PowerChapter 18: Working Smarter with ActionsChapter 19: Beyond Photoshop: Plug-InsChapter 20: Photoshop and VideoChapter 21: Using Adobe Bridge

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 11, 2012

    EXCELLENT

    Have been using photoshop for twenty years and find this book excellent for newbie or advanced user. Has all the new CS6 features covered in plain, easy to understand instructions. Photos included with highlights and instructions are very high quality and provide the visuals necessary to accompany the texts.

    Highly recommended. Thanks,

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