Photoshop CS3 One-on-One

Let Deke show you how to wrangle pixels in Photoshop like a master with this beautiful full-color book, plus more than 2 hours of exclusive video.

Learn the ins and outs of Adobe's pixel wrangling powerhouse with the Photoshop master himself benevolently looking over your shoulder in Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-on-One. Deke will guide you through Photoshop as you learn to make tonal adjustments, balance and correct color, make selections and masks, apply special effects, master the use of layers, and much much more. As with all One-on-One books, you get three hours of instructional video lessons designed to reinforce what you learned. And when you're done with an exercise, you'll have proof that the training worked—in the form of a finished project that you can use as a roadmap for expressing your own creative ideas with Photoshop.

Product Details:

List price: $49.99USD
Length: 544 pages with 3 hours of video instruction on DVD
ISBN 13: 978-0596529758 / ISBN 10: 0596529759

Table of Contents:

Lesson 1. OPEN AND ORGANIZE

  • What Is Photoshop?
  • Opening an Image
  • Organizing and Examining Photos
  • Using Metadata
  • Batch Renaming
  • Printing Thumbnails

Lesson 2. HIGHLIGHTS, MIDTONES, AND SHADOWS

  • Brightness, Contrast, and Levels
  • Automatic Image Correction
  • Adjusting Brightness Levels
  • Correcting with Curves
  • Compensating for Flash and Backlighting

Lesson 3. CORRECTING COLOR BALANCE

  • What Are Hue and Saturation?
  • Fixing a Color Cast
  • Tint and Color
  • Colorizing a Grayscale Image
  • Correcting with Camera Raw

Lesson 4. MAKING SELECTIONS

  • Isolating an Image Element
  • Selecting Regions of Continuous Color
  • Quick Selection and Refine Edge
  • Selecting an Irregular Image
  • Drawing Precise Curves

Lesson 5. CROP, STRAIGHTEN, AND SIZE

  • Whole-Image Transformations
  • The Order in Which We Work
  • Auto Crop and Straighten
  • Straightening a Crooked Image
  • Using the Crop Tool
  • Resizing an Image

Lesson 6. PAINT, EDIT, AND HEAL

  • The Essential Eight, Plus Three
  • The Three Editing Styles
  • Coloring Scanned Line Art
  • Adding Fills and Textures
  • Dodge, Burn, Sponge, and Smudge
  • Healing and Patching

Lesson 7. CREATING AND APPLYING MASKS

  • Seeing through Photoshop’s Eyes
  • Using the Color Range Command
  • Refining a Selection with a Quick Mask
  • Extracting a Photographic Element
  • Defining a Mask from Scratch
  • Putting the Mask in Play

Lesson 8. FOCUS AND FILTERS

  • The Subterfuge of Sharpness
  • Sharpening an Image
  • Using the Vanishing Point Filter

Lesson 9. BUILDING LAYERED COMPOSITIONS

  • The Benefits and Penalties of Layers
  • How to Manage Layers
  • Arranging and Modifying Layers
  • Importing, Transforming, and Warping Layers
  • Masks, Knockouts, and Luminance Blending
  • Working with Layer Comps
  • Aligning Layers and Blending Photographs

Lesson 10. TEXT AND SHAPES

  • The Vector-Based Duo
  • Creating and Formatting Text
  • Drawing and Editing Shapes
  • Bending and Warping Type

Lesson 11. STYLES AND SPECIALTY LAYERS

  • The Amazing World of Dynamic Edits
  • Layer Attributes Versus Layers
  • Adding Layer Effects
  • Applying Strokes and Glows
  • Simulating Reflections with Bevel and Emboss
  • Fixing Problem Effects
  • Creating and Modifying Adjustment Layers
  • Working with Smart Objects
  • Nondestructive Smart Filters

Lesson 12. PRINTING AND OUTPUT

  • Local Printing Versus Commercial Reproduction
  • RGB Versus CMYK
  • Printing to an Inkjet Printer
  • Preparing a CMYK File for Commercial Reproduction
  • Packing Multiple Pictures onto a Single Page

DVD: Videos and Lesson Files

 

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