Practical Photoshop CC 2014 Level 2

Co-authored by community college instructors with many years of experience teaching Adobe Photoshop both in the classroom and online. This book picks up where Practical Photoshop Level 1 leaves off, and continues to provide you with the knowledge you need to take your use of the industry-standard image editing application to the next level. It includes 17 chapters of Guided Exercises and Case Studies that will walk you through intermediate-level features of this very complex program: Camera Raw The Filter Gallery Converting between grayscale and color Saving files for Web use Using actions to batch process files Understanding file formats Working with channels and masks The differences between layers, channels, and masks Using layer masks The power of clipping masks Working with vector elements Vectors vs. pixels Shape layers and their options Type tools and formatting