A Short Course in Photoshop CS for Digital Photographers (Book/eBook)

Photoshop is the undisputed leader in photo-editing programs. Widely used by photographers, graphic artists, printers, designers, and other creative professionals, it has something for everyone. It's the program's breadth that lies at the heart of its complexity there are tools for everyone and everything. Our goal in this book is to present an introduction to Photoshop CS that lets you master those aspects of the program most useful to digital photographers. From this single perspective, CS is easier to master because you follow a single main road through the program. Detours along the many back roads of the program are for another time and another book. We recognize that digital images can be edited in a wide variety of ways. In some cases you're a photographer trying to improve an image by eliminating or reducing its flaws. In other cases you are a graphic artist taking an image to a new place, making it something it never was, or incorporating it as one element in a larger project. In this book we focus on the photographic aspects, but along the way you'll master the tools you need to do graphic arts. Included are chapters on Getting Started, Working with Image Files, Fixing Your Images, Working with Selections, Working with Layers, Painting & Drawing, Creating and Using Masks, Automating Tasks and Color Management. The book features an expensive spiral binding so it lies flat next to the computer, and when folded back on itself takes up have the desk space of books with cheaper bindings. Although written from a Windows point of view, the book is usable by Mac users experienced enough to cope with the few differences between the versions of the program.